why did people hate this? it was basically windows 98
Your first operating system
Lincoln Hall
Juan Scott
>buggy pos
>start of the downfall
Jacob Nguyen
In theory Windows Me had pre-emptive multitasking, which should have made it more stable. It didn't.
We were all laughing from the co-operative camp, somewhat saddened about our inferior underlying architecture but thoroughly enjoying our superior UI and stability.
Aiden Smith
Windows 95
Zachary King
Same, absolutely hated the lockups on that piece of shit.
Christopher Butler
it pretty much couldn't reach 24 hour uptime without massive slowdowns or crashes
Sebastian Sanders
My first computer around 2000 had DOS probably and one time my friend by accident create folder? with some program inside and then we were thinking that when we create folder with name for example GTA V, GTA V will be on my computer and we can play.
Leo Jackson
>explorer using IE framework
>crashes like IE
>memory leaks EVERYWHERE
>got a file bigger than 4GB? nuthin personel kid
Andrew Foster
How the fuck do downies find this place? Does your care facility know you're here?
Jeremiah Miller
Because Windows 2000 came out earlier and was superior all around because of it being built on NT code-base rather than the shitfest that 9x was.
Hudson Miller
zoomzoom
Elijah Evans
debian on an old thinkpad since my based dad GNUpilled me at age 8
Lucas Bell
Mine was 98. The original, not SE. That thing was not 98.
Kayden Howard
Windows 3.1.
Ethan Clark
It was a pointless stopgap for people impatiently awaiting a newer version of Windows, and was bloated, buggy, and unstable.
My earliest attempts to switch entirely over to Linux mainly came from frustration with WinME.
Aiden Reed
Apple dos 3.2.
gulp.
Justin Hill
>why the hate
no true DOS game compatibility
I dont remember if it was good for Win98 games
Benjamin James
I had windows me for a bit. All i remember are problems. Windows 98 i dont remember as much problems but its hard to remember back that far.
Andrew Clark
It was basically 98, but with more bloat and a mess mixing 9x-style and NT-style drivers that caused the memetic crashes. There was little reason to upgrade from 98.
Juan Cruz
Should have released on the NT kernel. They were developing it (Windows Neptune) but panicked at the last minute and shat this out instead. It was buggy and unstable, wouldnt run native dos (the main point of using the 9x kernel), and the drivers made a already terrible situation worse.
Luis Perez
Windows98
Jose Davis
Can't believe I paid actual money for this. At least it got me on the linux hype train early on.
Jackson Stewart
my first own os was dos 5.0 on a 286 machine (i later installed win 3.1 on top of it)
winme was a fucking desaster. my parents got me a new pc in 2001 with me preinstalled and it was unbearable. the soundcard driver needed to be reinstalled after literally every reboot, it was unstable ... drove me right into the hands of redhat.
Connor Parker
Workbench 3.1
Isaiah Brown
win3 wasn't os
Leo Wood
It was so beautiful.
I didn't have a sound card back in those times and I played so many games with no sound. I remember the feeling of jelly whenever I saw someone had the SB software. :)
Asher Sanders
Windows 2000! One of the best versions of Windows so far! :)
Connor Turner
windows 9x was shit.
Joseph Gonzalez
windows 2000 couldn't run shit
Hunter King
>turn on computer
>username/password box for authentication pops up
>uh oh i don't know (insert family member's name)'s password
>just hit the cancel button
>logged in
yeah windows 2000 was great
Jacob Parker
For me, it was DOS with Windows 3.1 added.
I would only use Windows to play with color schemes. DOS was where the best games lived, and WordPerfect which I used to type lists of things. Like one file was every first name I could think of in alphabetical order for example
Kayden Baker
Windows 10
Liam Jackson
Nope. This is W9x
Lincoln Barnes
active desktop was kinda cool though
Josiah Green
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows 9x, is in fact, DOS/Windows 9x, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, DOS plus Windows 9x. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another proprietary component of a fully functioning DOS system made useful by the DOS corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS.
Many computer users run a modified version of the DOS system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of DOS which is widely used today is often called “Windows 9x”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the DOS system, developed by the Microsoft. There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Windows is the graphical user interface: the program that draws windows, and shares computer resources between programs. The user interface is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Windows is normally used in combination with the DOS operating system: the whole system is basically DOS with Windows added, or DOS/Windows 9x.
Robert Myers
I didn't hate her, I used her right up to after XP SP2 was released.
Grayson Edwards
I can remember my dad going down to Staples and buying g one so my sister could have shitty 8bit sound on her hello Kitty game.
Nolan Howard
yeah Win2000 logging in screen actually prevented you from using the computer unless you knew the password
it could be hacked with a cdrom boot into Win2000 installer but whatever, its not like everyone had access to the boot sequence of office computers
Hunter Russell
I didn't hate it at the time, but thinking back, it crashed a lot.
Ryder Cruz
MS DOS and floppy disks