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@shpuld in terms of "met or exceeded all expectations with minimal flaws when it came out" for me it's a tossup between 2K and 7. Probably 2K because 7 still required a shitload of RAM even if it was less than Vista. 2K was also an AMAZING upgrade from NT4.
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@shpuld yeah it was stuck on directx 7 for a very long time iirc
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@shpuld A lot of garbage-coded Windows software would run on XP but not on 2K because of Microsoft's need for consumer boxes to have backward compatibility. I remember Sonic CD for Windows being one of them, which had a weird-ass half-emulated Genesis at its core.
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@shpuld @orekix 10 is garbage, I maintain it on around 40 machines and we've had multiple catastrophic failures in addition to regular weirdness like machines losing routes, or static ip addresses after every update.
WSL is really great though, I run linux apps on my windows vm running on linux.
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@shpuld You're right but 7 just felt more polished to me and it worked with a lot less ram. in terms of modern systems the difference is minimal I think because you've got enough ram in them. When Vista came out, MS was shoving it on laptop manufacturers with far too little memory and it ran like shit.
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@hakui @shpuld this fact always evades my thinking, except with XP where I remember how much more RAM it took than 98 and literally crashed nonstop out of the box on a brand new computer my church got.
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