Literally a downgrade.

>>/g/

>>11811016 (OP)
>looks cooler, isn't slow as fuck, runs more games
>downgrade
Win 98 is unironically soulless, XP era was the peak of humanity.

>>11811016 (OP)
forced soul

>>11811016 (OP)
My favorite is Windows 2000

>>11811016 (OP)
I have a fleshlight

>>11811046
My very own first PC had it. XP mogs hard still

>>11811016 (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

>>11811328
Secretly based. I wish emulation for this was PCem/86box-level

>>11811328
OS9 was the absolute worst.
Crashed even more than ME

>>11811368
WOMM
you probably fucked up your install

>>11811016 (OP)
XP's fisher price interface was a vast upgrade over ubiquitous grayness.

>>11811016 (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.

>>11811016 (OP)
For me it's Windows 8.1.

>>11811016 (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.

>>11811025
cross board quote needs three
>>>/g/

I like both

>>11811368
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?

>>11811046
My favorite was XP with the Win98/2K theme.

>>11811523
tech illiterate normies couldnt differentiate from the start button search & internet search. at least thats the only explanation i can think of

>>11811523
microsoft have been pushing that shit since 95b when they integrated IE in the shell

>>11811029
>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.

>>11811523
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.

>>11811525
Now that takes me back. Inexperience patcher made XP a tolerable upgrade from 2k back in 2012.

>>11811540
>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.

>>11811330
maybe someday —QEMU is OK at this point and can even do PPC OS X with Classic Mode
>>11811368
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.

>>11811628
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

>>11811645
Huh. Thanks for giving me useful information.
I didn't expect that.

>>11811648
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.

>>11811679
>Then use MassGrave to activate.
...he said, in a totally unironic manner.

>>11811684
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.

>>11811686
>Then you get to hang out with your friends on the botnet.
I'm already on 4chan. :(

>>11811692
i'm also trans btw, not sure if that matters

>>11811648
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.

>>11811692
>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.

>>11811698
>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.

>>11811720
To further emphasize the ridiculousness of what Microsoft was doing... there were several versions of Win 2k and above that were 32-bit.
Yeah...

>>11811046
no gaems

>>11811525
I like the Royale/Shorhorn look

>>11811330
>>11811623
Check out DingusPPC. They're working on an accurate PowerPC emulator. Still in early stages but it works.
>https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc

>>11811525
If you disabled a service called Themes it would use the old design but keep the Luna colors which looked pretty nice.

>>11811757
nice, thanks anon

>>11811757
>DingusPPC
now that's just silly

>>11811537
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.

>>11811046
Yep. 2k was absolutely great. XP only became better after SP1 and nlite.

>>11811628
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

>>11811908
>with massgrave
I meant with MAS (which is made by the Massgrave team):
https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

>>11811475
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.

>>11811016 (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.

>>11812134
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

>>11811754
royale noir my beloved

>>11811754
loved Royale so much. I always thought that the default fisher-price theme was a pain in the eyes.

>>11811016 (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.

>>11811459
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!

>>11811457
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.

>>11811535
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.

>>11812589
no in 2001 256mb would have been the most common setup for new PC's