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[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Windows XPsp1 was peak. No visual overhead, no surplus protection , nothing but plain interaction with a computer using only mouse

[–] Batbro@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mouse is bloat

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me and the four other people using qtile concur. Alpha computing.

[–] Nyonnyan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I have been a i3 user for a few years now, honestly, the only reason I still keep my mouse around is to occasionally play some video games.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We'll it was certainly better than me or vista, I'll give it that!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We'll it was certainly better than me

Don't be so hard on yourself! I'm sure you're better than Windows XP! Even the best version of it!

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That was the hearty chuckle that I needed after a very long day (and very long nap, so now I'm up in the wee hours kicking about on social media! Thanks for that!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You're so very welcome 😁

[–] humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also tried to word it, but it was awful. Thanks for doing that for me!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

All in a day's work, ma'am. I mean band

[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe in crazy but I preferred both ME and Vista over XP.

Vista's only real problem was that it was resource intensive and people tried to put it on older hardware that could technically run it, but not well. Which understandably caused a bad experience for a lot of people. My experience was on a new laptop that was designed with Vista in mind, and it was fine.

ME allegedly had a bunch of stability issues. Maybe i was just too young to notice, but I don't remember having problems with it as a kid. I was really disappointed when we "upgraded" to XP and lost most of the UI customization options. The rounded blue bars were so bland and boring.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

WinME was a straight downgrade from Win98SE. I had to support a lot of peoples PCs privately at the time, and WinME was an unstable mess in comparison; the amount of undiagnosable bluescreens that just didn't occur on Win98 on the same hardware was infuriating; and the performance was worse in every instance.