@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.
@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.
DirectX started as a project called win/g on windows 3, an attempt to make an abstraction layer for games because DOS owned the action game market on PC completely. It was literally laughable at the time because windows ran its native graphics like shit even on the best machine, literally not fixed until Vista.
@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.
@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.
the only reason I was able to complete the arch linux installation guide successfully was because of a bunch of stuff I already knew that the document didn't even talk about.