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Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 (fireborn.mataroa.blog)
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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

When Vista came out I didn't get the hate because my vista pc was considerably more stable than my xp machine.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Stability aside, I loved ME's personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like "yours."

I wish they had kept with that into later versions.

Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

It was fine, if it ran.