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[-] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago

Well, um, whatever kind you use and whatever kind you are, of course.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

That's your favorite distro of linux now, but what previous operating system do you come from?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago

What if he's a Gentoo user? He'll mock me for using Archlinux, I've got to play this hand carefully so as to not blow my cover. There's always the chance he's a Mint user and I have nothing to worry about, but then, he could be one of those users that says ricing is a waste of time, who uses his OS professionally, but then, he might be a Fedora user... how do I approach this issue without seeming like a pleb?! Based Stallman, help me!

NixOS

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

How about that vaporwave aesthetic of Garuda Dr460nized edition?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Windows 2000. I feel like that's reasonable. It was honestly pretty solid kit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That was not my experience with 2000. Either 98 or XP (post-SP2) were more solider, from memory.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you might be confusing Windows ME with 2000.

Windows 2000 was built on the Windows NT kernel which was business focused so absolutely rock solid.

Windows 98 was a good jump in stability from the 95 kernel bit still very prone to crashing.

I agree XP was good but it was the successor to 2K so built on it and I moved to Linux as soon as the 2K directx support would have forced me to move to XP which wasn't as lightweight.

For clarity there were two development branches within Microsoft at the turn of the millennium: one that was based off windows 3.1 (and became 95, 98 and ME) and one that was based off windows NT 3.1 which was solid as fuck and eventually became 2000 then XP.

Edit: Here's a decent graphic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions#/media/File:Windows_Version_History.svg

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh shit, I think you're right!

Now that a stretch my memory back decades, I seem to recall I never extensively used 2000, it was ME.

I agree XP was good

I seem to recall something about XP not being good at the start, and it wasn't until about SP2 that it reached it's famed quality. But now I can't seem to find anything about it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah the naming was terrible in fairness... Windows millennium edition and windows 2000. I mean c'mon like. Haha.

And yeah I was gone by SP2 but I remember my gaming friends holding tight to that for as long as they could. There were even various really lightweight editions of SP2 that you could download if you had the balls to install a hacked together operating system from some randomer on the internet. And they all did.

Different times!!

Edit: also what's up Dave on the far side of the world!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Edit: also what's up Dave on the far side of the world!

I'm actually on the close side of the world 🤯

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