Literally a downgrade.

>>/g/

>>105650977 (OP)
>looks cooler, isn't slow as fuck, runs more games
>downgrade
Win 98 is unironically soulless, XP era was the peak of humanity.

>>105650977 (OP)
forced soul

>>105650977 (OP)
My favorite is Windows 2000

>>105650977 (OP)
I have a fleshlight

>>105650981
My very own first PC had it. XP mogs hard still

>>105650977 (OP)
I think my first OS was Win95 but XP was when I really started getting into PC gaming and made the most memories so that's the best one.

I prefer the White Man's OS

>>105650985
Secretly based. I wish emulation for this was PCem/86box-level

>>105650985
OS9 was the absolute worst.
Crashed even more than ME

>>105650987
WOMM
you probably fucked up your install

>>105650977 (OP)
XP's fisher price interface was a vast upgrade over ubiquitous grayness.

>>105650977 (OP)
XP is peak sovl

I don't know what OS the schools computer was running, but I remember using this browser in 2000 when I was 12 and it gives me that dank nostalgia.

>>105650977 (OP)
For me it's Windows 8.1.

>>105650977 (OP)
I don't get the complaints about Windows 98. Sure it crashed occasionally but NT-based systems do to. You could delete most of the garbage from it and slim it down real nice. Everybody was saying 'Well in THEORY the NT based XP won't crash at all, ever!" But until SP2, XP was crashier than 98.

>>105650978
cross board quote needs three
>>>/g/

I like both

>>105650987
Never happened to me

I don't really recall disliking an OS until the recent Windows versions where they decided that a default "feature" should be searching the internet from your desktop. Has anybody ever wanted to search the internet from the Start menu, or at least enough to warrant making it the default?

>>105650981
My favorite was XP with the Win98/2K theme.

>>105650996
tech illiterate normies couldnt differentiate from the start button search & internet search. at least thats the only explanation i can think of

>>105650996
microsoft have been pushing that shit since 95b when they integrated IE in the shell

>>105650979
>isn't slow as fuck
win xp consumes more resources.
back in the day, most pc's had 256mb ram and xp shugged hard while 98 ran like a dream.
when people asked me for a solution for slowness i told them to install win98 and it always worked.

>>105650996
The worst thing in 11 is the "Recommended" (glorified recent programs) thing, even on a heavily debloated install will still pop up the occasional ad after an update. Best to disable all that shit completely.

>>105650997
Now that takes me back. Inexperience patcher made XP a tolerable upgrade from 2k back in 2012.

>>105651002
>Inexperience patcher made XP a tolerable upgrade from 2k back in 2012
I didn't wait that long to upgrade to XP but yeah. Vista was buggy as shit. I skipped over that iteration entirely.

>>105650986
maybe someday —QEMU is OK at this point and can even do PPC OS X with Classic Mode
>>105650987
I'm a Macfag from birth and yes Classic Mac OS is wildly unstable after System 6. It was like a pet you had to tame. I loved it :( Protected memory was a mistake

I know this is slightly off topic, but I really wish I could upgrade to windows 11 instead of being forced to throw my computer in the trash.
Even Windows Update says my computer is compatible, but it won't let me upgrade.

>>105651005
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d#id0ejd=windows_11

Use this to upgrade, there's no reason it shouldn't work for you

>>105651006
Huh. Thanks for giving me useful information.
I didn't expect that.

>>105651007
You can also just mount the .iso with Rufus and it'll let you get around the hardware requirements.
Or you can go to:
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
And make a custom .xml file. Toggle what you want installed with Windows, what you don't, create an offline account, whatever. then you just drop the .xml file onto the USB install media. Then use MassGrave to activate.

>>105651008
>Then use MassGrave to activate.
...he said, in a totally unironic manner.

>>105651009
Yes. Then you get to hang out with your friends on the botnet.

My first PC was DOS, I've used Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Win XP, Win 7 and Win 10 but the best OS I ever had is Ubuntu which I'm using right now, It's fast, compatible with everything and Wine lets me play literally any Windows game.

>>105651010
>Then you get to hang out with your friends on the botnet.
I'm already on 4chan. :(

>>105651011
i'm also trans btw, not sure if that matters

>>105651007
Sure thing, anon. There's no way you should have to get a whole new PC for something like this.

XP was the last time Microsoft had good sound design.

It's perhaps a downgrade from 2000 but no way it's a downgrade from anything in the 9x line.

>>105651011
>It's [...] compatible with everything and Wine lets me play literally any Windows game
Let's not start lying, anon. Wine has many compatibility issues that they are working tirelessly to address.

>>105651014
>Sure thing, anon. There's no way you should have to get a whole new PC for something like this.
There was a time when I would've automatically thought that was sarcasm, but I've been dealing with Windows since DOS.
I actually kinda like the memory protection features in modern Windows. I hated having to reboot Win 3/95/98/Me every other day because the code was written by morons.

>>105651018
To further emphasize the ridiculousness of what Microsoft was doing... there were several versions of Win 2k and above that were 32-bit.
Yeah...

>>105650981
no gaems

>>105650997
I like the Royale/Shorhorn look

>>105650986
>>105651004
Check out DingusPPC. They're working on an accurate PowerPC emulator. Still in early stages but it works.
>https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc

>>105650997
If you disabled a service called Themes it would use the old design but keep the Luna colors which looked pretty nice.

>>105651022
nice, thanks anon

>>105651022
>DingusPPC
now that's just silly

>>105651001
I just have that shit turned off, hasn't mysteriously turned back on for me yet, same with that dumb web search in the start menu shit. I'm not a fan of the appleification of everything and I miss my windows 7 desktop like mad but at least I've been able to disable most of the bullshit that windows 11 comes with, it's also helped me give less of a fuck about my laptop, I don't treat this thing like it's mine and I could easily lose it without caring because I don't keep anything of value on it.

>>105650981
Yep. 2k was absolutely great. XP only became better after SP1 and nlite.

>>105651005
You don't actually need to switch to W11 this year, you can activate ESU with massgrave to get security updates until 2028
If you switch to W10 IoT LTSC 2021 you even get security updates on W10 until 2032
Anyway you can learn more by browsing the Windows thread on /g/: >>>/g/105610240

>>105651028
>with massgrave
I meant with MAS (which is made by the Massgrave team):
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

>>105650993
In my experience, 9x would completely crash out and blue-screen, requiring a reset, at least once a day. More often the more videogames I played. XP could crash, but when it did it usually just ate the offending program and would keep on trucking. I only used base XP and SP1 XP, and I can tell you it was a world of difference from 95, 98, and 98SE. It was still possible to blue-screen XP, but I only encountered it about 5-6 times during the years I used XP.

>>105650977 (OP)
i don't know about that, but Millenium Edition was a downgrade in some ways. it wouldn't let me start in DOS, and i still played some DOS games at the time. It also crashed/froze frequently, which was a big problem when the family PC had a power-on password and my mother was an abusive alcoholic.

>>105651031
ME was notoriously janky, I've seen some claim it was heavily dependent on the hardware of your machine. I had a friend growing up who used it and said he had no problems. Sorry to hear that about your mother.

WMP 11 release felt so damn modern and a perfect fit for the WXP theme

>>105651021
royale noir my beloved

>>105651021
loved Royale so much. I always thought that the default fisher-price theme was a pain in the eyes.

>>105650977 (OP)
>install XP
>pick one of the classic skins
Bam, now it's better than 98.

I remember drivers being a nightmare on 98 whereas XP was a lot easier.

>>105650991
Oh man, i remember when NintendoMania was running on tv around 96/97 with Mario64 and i went to a Telnor to use one of 3 PCs with weird wavy keyboards and very slow Internet for 5-10 minutes of test so i could send them a letter, asking where was that damn Metal Cap Switch!

>>105650990
If your OS doesn't look like it's been designed by an accountant, it's soulless. Thus, XP is soulless.
OS's pre XP were absolutely computers, after XP they were mere products. Using an Win9x skin is cosplay.

>>105651000
Anon most computers already had 512mb of ram by the time XP released. If you were using a computer more than a couple years old that was your fault. Things became obsolete in no time then.

>>105651040
no in 2001 256mb would have been the most common setup for new PC's

>>105650993
I experienced multiple crashes per day on 98 and this was considered normal at the time. Got worse and worse the longer you used it and installed/uninstalled stuff until you did a fresh install.

>>105650977 (OP)
>type con into windows xp user login
works as intended
>type con into windows 98 user login
entire OS is corrupted
Windows xp was a proper OS. Windows 98 was a bloated application built on top of DOS
>>105651000
same brokie mindset that caused vista to fail. Too poor for proper hardware. You should stick to using a Pentium on linux in 2025 and stop holding us back

>>105651033
beautiful buttons

>>105650977 (OP)
I had sufficient experience with both to make a proper comparison.

Windows 98 blue screened more and had to be reinstalled every year instead of every 2-3 years like for XP.
Getting networking to work was hard on both but it was easier in Windows XP because DHCP became a thing or something.
Running DOS stuff was a lot easier in Windows 98. It also had boot to DOS for recovery which was nice.
Most stuff on Windows XP just required some DirectX while Windows 98 still occasionally had weirder requirements. Windows 98 was more of an offline computer though so most things either worked or didn't so there was less fucking about.
Windows XP came with some useful utilities like Movie Maker.

I miss it.

W98 and 2K was the most soulful and hopeful time. I thought the XP theme looked silly.

>>105650977 (OP)
*pinches nose*
>lichully uh downgwade

>>105651033
>>105654367
It's literally a watered down Vista theme.

>>105650977 (OP)
>w98
old
>XP
comfy

>>105650980
This was Windows 95

>>105658018
You'll notice it's more svvlfvl than any linucucks """DE"""

>>105650977 (OP)
You can just use the classic theme on xp, ya dumby.