• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    95 wasn’t bad. 98 had some bugs and they quickly released 98SE, which was great and then they released the soggy turd of windows Millennium.

    That was their disaster year. Windows ME, released just 2 years after 98 in 2000, and written out of existence just one year later by Windows XP.

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      Windows XP… such expressive, truly material-like, design, only Vista comes close. But XP ran so much better.

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        Vista is the OS that taught me the desktop compositor is capable of destroying game performance and latency

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          Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone’s rig.

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      I’m certain my productivity at work dropped significantly because of this fucking upgrade. It’s slow as molasses, at times unstable and 50% of the time I send the laptop to “hibernate,” both it and me wake up to yet another update cycle, meaning it did a completely unwanted hard restart and my unsaved work has been lost without a warning. Crazy my company is paying for that shit.

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        Windows 3.1 and 3.11 were amazing. Windows 95 was fine. Windows 98 was much better. Windows ME would make the most sense in this tag’s context, but it’s not a number so 95 is the next best option.

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      Hiroshima was a man-made disaster that happened in 1945.

      Chernobyl was a man-made disaster that happened in 1986.

      And now generalise for the punchline.

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        I got it, I did the math and figured it out Windows 95 is man-made disaster that happens in 2027!