Less funny when you realize it's mostly banks, government agencies, and militaries still using it.

After XP, Windows focused on adding crap to their aid that use unnecessary resources for crap things. I remember the Aqua look on Vista that sucked the life out of computers. Let’s not talk about Windows Me. Then 8 was a weird interface that no one liked and also not compatible with older machines. So XP is the most stable Windows os that can run on older devices.

I guinely hate windows as a product. But man XP was a banger for it's time

A lot of public infrastructure in the US (powerplants, waste management, etc.) runs off XP or older.

Newest versions of windows 11 make it incredibly hard to find the screen that shows all your network adapters. It is now easier to use device manager to disable and reenable an adapter.

How do I know? Because all the shit tier screens and tools that offer to help you with a network issue didn't work. ONLY reenabling the NIC did.

Had to do it on my whole network

its

XP was great but for me 7 was the sweet spot.

When I was working security for a hospital they wanted to send imagery from an MRI (or maybe CAT, I forget) upstairs to be interpreted without allowing any network traffic to be able to reach the host machine because it was running XP. I asked why, and they told me that in order to replace it the vendor was requiring a $7 million replacement of the whole MRI.

What worries me more is what eldritch horrors await us in other versions

Played the heckin' heck out of Lionhead Studios' Black & White on XP. Good Times.

I don't even know why people use Windows 10 (or 11) other than momentum.

I haven't used Windows for years, but my daughter's new online school required either a Windows 10/11 computer or a Mac and we can't afford even a new decent Windows notebook, let alone a Mac, so we ended up getting a refurbished Thinkpad running Windows 10 from NewEgg.

Windows 10. Is. Annoying. As. Fuck.

We are constantly getting interrupted by unnecessary popups (or were until I took the time to disable everything I could think of, which was a pain in the ass).

After running updates, it made me go through a bunch of screens turning down paying for things. Twice. And those popups still asked me about paying for things. Motherfucker, I already paid $300 for the computer, I'm not paying you shit.

And wow is stuff counterintuitive in how to do it compared to either any Linux GUI I've tried or Mac OS. Just trying to figure out how to get to a File menu is baffling half the time.

I don't blame anyone for using XP over that shit. Let alone Linux or even a Mac.

There's tons of legacy shit still running XP and there probably will be for at least another decade.

I have a copy, I just need to find an old-ass pc to install it on.

$20 says there's at least one person out there still running Win3.1 daily.