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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Windows had 3 peaks. 95, xp, and 7.

Now I just use Linux. I know not everyone can, but for everything I do or need to do it all works just fine there so I couldn't be happier.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My favourite Windows is still 2000.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Isn't that the one you could get to BSOD with a single ping?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    No, the last version of my that was vulnerable was 3.5.1 2000 was better than xp for a year after XP came out. You couldn't even boot XP on a driver bigger than 128GB where 2000 had that bug already patched.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Everyone can, really. It's not 2002 anymore. Linux has been ready for prime time for some time now. All it lacks is critical mass.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean people with tight corporate requirements cannot. Certain headaches with security designations, not all software works great in Linux, even though most do.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    My point is there's no required savvyness like it used to a couple decades ago.

    A corporation is arguably best positioned to make the transition. The one I work at has all their administrative systems as cloud apps. The few production systems that run native can be run in a Citrix or RDP environment. Even now, with user stations running Windows, these systems are accessed through RDP for... reasons anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, XP was pretty great too! Can't say much about 95, we switched from DOS directly to 98 back then, which crashed all the time. I heard good things about 98SE though.

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