Why does it have such a strong following? Was it really as good as people say it was?
Hard mode: no XP-bashing
Windows 2000
Sebastian Nguyen
Wyatt Diaz
>Why does it have such a strong following?
baby duck syndrome school computer operating system
Nolan Rodriguez
Because it was the peak of Windows stability while also having some nice features and being just all round comfy, this OS was basically better XP, which was good to begin with
Asher Johnson
Was your impression of it formed after using XP first?
Colton Wood
Winblows peaked in 1998.
Hunter Barnes
It was, I used Windows XP for quite a while and then used 2000 and realised it was better
Dominic Peterson
1995. Win 98 only added more bloat.
Jonathan Long
it was absolutely awesome and rock solid stable for its time
Elijah White
>Because it was the peak of Windows stability
lol hell no, fucking retard millennials. modern server and workstation windows 10 is more stable than 2000 ever could dream of being.
Luis Johnson
Ah. I had more or less the same experience, except my opinion changed back again. I don't think I was even aware of the existence of 2000 until well after XP was released. 98 seemed to be much more common.
This idea of 2000 being an alternative to XP is interesting, especially with it being older and less advanced. It does have a very likeable quality to it. It has the most refined '90s era UI, with the old Windows logo, icons and what not, yet has the compatibility and stability of the 2000s era. At the time, it offered the best of both worlds for the right person.
Jonathan King
Can confirm it was comfy af
That tasty blue and fade on the menus / right clicks
Oliver Adams
it was great compared to win98.
much more stable.
Ryan Green
It was super comfy and incredibly lightweight. I used it to run Office in a VM until OO.org/Libreoffice got good.
Carson Wood
Until twenty years from now?
Thomas Cooper
using legacy windows is super bluepilled, if you actually care about things like stability or being lightweight you would switch to linux or bsd
Camden Hughes
>if you actually care about things like stability or being lightweight you would switch to linux or bsd
Ryder Mitchell
absolute retard. the only thing legacy windows is good for is nostalgia. the entire operating system is a mess.
Parker Martinez
Anyone here use Windows 2000 upon release? What was driver availability and general stability like?
Adam Carter
>was
Remember Windows Millennium ? lol
Robert Reyes
2012. Really for the past five years I haven't used a WYSIWYG office suite at all on personal machines. I write in emacs and generate output with Pandoc, and that's enough.
Jeremiah Barnes
This was stable and comfy as fuck with the correct drivers. Unfortunately it suffered from the driver hell XP is well known about.
Vista fixed that by moving some subsystems (audio) from kernel space to user space.
Isaac Anderson
Eli Flores
2000 at the time just wasn't very compatible with the things I used and ME was just unstable horseshit (though does seem to run decently in Virtual Machines ) at the time I tried it, XP was the first really "stable" one for me. I had been using windows since 3.1. Vista I didn't really use and 7 was great. After that I've gone over to linux cuz 10 can piss off.