Windows is 40 years old

[maflynn]

Check what Chris Titus says, and look at what others are saying

I have, I've recommended him here from time to time

 

[imacker2011]

You may also use Tiny11 and Rufus to get rid of the bloat and get a stripped down ISO, especially if you plan to install Win11 on older hardware. After a decade of solely using MacOS, I utilized it to set up a maxed out iMac 2011 21,5" for my son. Using the tool, the experience was actually quite similar to what I remembered from XP times (booting into a clean 800x600 desktop, local account only, etc...).

 

[chmania]

what I remembered from XP times

Oh, those were nice times, breaking into the registry and playing with recreating XP...

 

[maflynn]

into the registry

I still need to use regedit, not for home stuff, but work. I just did this a few weeks ago, changing/deleting some regedit entries. that will never go away

 

[chmania]

I still need to use regedit, not for home stuff, but work. I just did this a few weeks ago, changing/deleting some regedit entries. that will never go away

That's the fun of using Windows. I wish I had that with macOS.

 

[maflynn]

That's the fun of using Windows. I wish I had that with macOS.

Not so much fun, when Oracle's PUM install fails to uninstall and I had to go into the registry and remove/change the entries so a reinstall would work.

I'm glad apple doesn't use a registry that I need to go in and fix things. I much prefer dragging/dropping (though some apps require an install)

 

[diamond.g]

Not so much fun, when Oracle's PUM install fails to uninstall and I had to go into the registry and remove/change the entries so a reinstall would work.

I'm glad apple doesn't use a registry that I need to go in and fix things. I much prefer dragging/dropping (though some apps require an install)

I am ambivalent about plist files.

 

[rb2112]

Windows 3.0 — May 22, 1990
Windows 3.1 — April 6, 1992

I remember when my school got 3.1. I remember thinking such thoughts as, "I guess this looks neat but I am so much faster doing everything from the DOS prompt". and "None of this windows stuff seems important to coding." Okay, back to Scorched Earth...

 

[zenmacx]

The other issue I see is the mind set of collecting data and using the operating system to show advertisements. I think in many respects and in many ways Microsoft has lost its way. At least when it comes to operating systems and also gaming

Yes indeed, this trend is quite concerning!

 

[rb2112]

Like everyone, I hated Vista back in the day...for being the slowest OS possible...unnecessarily bloated and the like...in retrospective, of course, this was rather due to the weak hardware one had (something like an AMD Duron 600MHz and a GPU with a few MBs of RAM, way too little for Aero).

I did not realize at the time the weak hardware may have contributed to my poor Vista experience. Thank you for mentioning that point! But maybe the bloatware was bad enough...

 

[maflynn]

weak hardware may have contributed to my poor Vista experience

That was one of the major contributing factors to Vista, at the time, most people's hardware was simply not powerful enough to drive the OS. It wasn't that your hardware was too weak, but rather microsoft was too ambitious with their gui

 

[maflynn]

 

[chmania]

The glassy look,

 

[MarineBand5524]

I actually liked Windows Me - I know I'm in the vast minority with that one LOL

Thanks to Vista coming out is when I returned to Mac and got a beautiful 24" iMac and haven't missed windows since.

 

[Cape Dave]

I actually liked Windows Me - I know I'm in the vast minority with that one LOL

Thanks to Vista coming out is when I returned to Mac and got a beautiful 24" iMac and haven't missed windows since.

Windows 98se was AWESOME! Me and Vista suck. Useless waste of time for all concerned.

 

[maflynn]

I found this video which shows the boot up screens for each version of windows - useless but entertaining