I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
Or it was the day my old ass laptop broke.
6/12/2007. Never forget.o7
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Dad??
Yes my child?
Who the hell are you?
You aren’t my dad that’s for certain
Is that any way to speak to your father?
What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn’t realise.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
Oh I definitely knew. I swore off that system after I spent hours repairing a rootkit on my families multiple computers only for it to happen again a week later.
I moved to Unix and only run a bare bones 11 install for games which is almost not even necessary anymore
Oh, I noticed.
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq…and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story. I was also a frustrated teenager at the same time so this makes sense
All I wanted was to play DosBOX and the fucker froze and that was it…
…bastard still ran after that shockingly enough
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn’t believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.
I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.
I did notice over the years as winxp went away in public spaces and hotels. It was always kind of nice to know there were free to use computers out in the wild if one wanted to use them. XP was never able to be locked down, so you could bypass any login and just use it if you wanted to. Never for anything important, but I could always load up some games on the hotel one and let the kids play on it for fun for example.
I hear your security concerns but what timeline were you living on?
- 95 was revolutionary but buggy AF
- NT I didn’t have much to do with
- 98 was a patch to fix the bugs in 95
- 98 SE was mostly stable and a decent is, plus USB
- ME was a piece of shit excuse to something
- 2000 was decent. XP v1
- XP finally made a stable os, because it got rid of the shit we dragged in from 95
- Vista was hot garbage
- 7 fixed vista an imo was the best is MS ever made
- 8 was more hot garbage because they lost the mobile war
- 10 was an apology for 8
- 11 is shareware / adware
Where did you find safe harbour in this shitshow?
I’d argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 was an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn’t decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.
Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.
Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.
This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.
The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.
You can pry this peak UI from my cold, dead hands: https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We’re not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
I just did a win xp build the other day. I had to make a floppy disk for sata drivers because xp hates installing to sata. Fortunately MSI still has the drivers on their website. I’m still looking for a decent and cheap agp GPU to go along with it.
I nearly installed WinXP on an old piece of shit all-in-one computer (old celeron, 2gb ram, very slow hdd), but the CPU was too new to be supported. Installed Mint instead.
One day you turned off a Linux Distro for the last time and didn’t even notice
I don’t ever turn off my Linux machines. They turn off when the power goes out, and that’s about it.
If you use Arch or Nix, every day is that last day. One day you disembarked the Ship of Theseus for the last time and didn’t even notice.
Jokes on you, my distro hopping goes full circle every couple of months
No, it was when I got out my old high school computer to mess around with it and go “oh yeah” for a little bit. That was the last time I shut down Windows XP.
Bold assumption
