I ran Linux 1994ish. Amiga OS before. Amstrad CPC 464 before. A friend ran Sinclair Z80, that was the first system I had access to.
Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
there’s a word for those people: awesome
windows xp was peak; running anything before xp is legendary
eleitl@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
aside from radio shack and texas instruments that i used at camp, i think i was sadly too young to do anything but windows 3.1 :( our first computer was a tandy sensation in the early 90s and i didn’t really play with linux until maybe the mid 2000s
except for playing with apple IIe and radio shack computers through school and camp, that is.
eleitl@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
TRS-80 and TI 99/4A presumably?
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
i’m pretttyyyyy sure this one is the one we had at camp :)
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.
If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It was secure enough for its time. That’s what people don’t realize, they look at the past through a modern lens. You gotta look at it from the time it was released. There’s a reason mainstream consumer-focused Windows editions dropped DOS and moved to the NT kernel. XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.
They did, it was called “Windows 8” and Nobody liked it.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I’m not looking at it through a modern lense. It was very insecure at the time, too. I worked in a PC repair shop and at the time that business was a money printer in terms of getting rid of endless malware.
Although yes, the predecessors were worse.
I would not consider Win8 a “refinement” of Win7 lol, they changed the entire UX.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But before ME there was Windows 2000, with its particularly gorgeous spin of the classical design, and other than appearance - being kinda same as XP, but faster.
On NT you mean, and no, W2K was a consumer system.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Whoops! Yes, NT.
W2K was most definitely not a consumer system. It was a bit of an oddball in that some power users installed it at home over 98/Me, but it was a business-oriented system first and foremost. XP had a lot of features over 2000, including a lot of consumer-oriented tools and applications.
Personal anecdote: When I was in jr high, the “family PC” was a Toshiba laptop loaded with W2K, and compared to the W98 system we came from, it was certainly not built for “regular” users. That’s what Me was supposed to be, but we all know how that went…
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
But this article is talking about people running Windows 7 today, so comparing current actions through a modern lens is entirely valid
cuzit@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Technically, they did, and it was not great.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
You consider Win8 a refinement of Win7?
To me refinement means small changes to make something better. It doesn’t mean completely changing the entire UX.