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If any of the hackers are here, could you run this on the Windows repo please?

  git reset --hard windows2000-sp4

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Make it win 7 and I'd agree.

(Actually I don't care anymore. Modern linux beats any version of windows in all my use cases)

Lol ok

Make it vista and we're golden

Not sure if Vista was the low point or Windows ME. Probably Vista.

95 and 98 were horrible. Hearing the error chime still gives me physical reactions.

Wrong verb tense there. The low point is windows 11.

Agree. UAC is pretty basic feature.

> Modern linux beats any version of windows in all my use cases

It's the other way around for me. Windows Subsystem for Linux ftw.

I have used Linux as the primary Desktop OS for most of my life but I hope I will never have to go back ever again.

i use mDNS too frequently to find WSL useful. and was kind of surprised to find MS EDGE woukldn't connect to a node service run unf i WSL. but.... if you don't need networking, it's pretty decent. you can even get an x server and run XTerm and get VT320 emulation.

What you say about networking is not true. Networking works seamlessly between native windows applications and linux applications running on WSL.

> Modern linux beats any version of windows in all my use cases

Are you aware that hackers have been leaking the source code of Linux for years?

You can find so many modded versions though...

I remember back in the day, I preferred SP2. It seemed to run notably faster on slower hardware and there were very few instances of software (I don't even remember any) that required a later one to run on 2k.

Just think about that. There was a time where you'd not use an older version of an OS, but an older patch level of an OS and it didn't feel particularly wrong.

> There was a time where you'd not use an older version of an OS, but an older patch level of an OS and it didn't feel particularly wrong.

Unless you had a network of these, like a school, and a couple enterprising pranksters with Metasploit.

Granted, from now on all your electronic devices will run Windows 2000 IA-64.

>all your electronic devices

Cool. Having the only Itanium powered oven/fridge/washer gives him insane nerd street cred.

I can understand the oven, but surely being "Itanium-powered" would be counterproductive for a fridge?

Your fridge yes, your oven no.

Are you sure you don't just want vms instead?

i miss VMS. it's sort of like WinNT but with all the stuff that doesn't work stripped out.

windowsnt4-sp6a

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