Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • Rimu@piefed.social
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    5 months ago

    Windows 2000 was the peak - rock solid with no visual fluff. XP was 2000 with a childish skin on it and it’s all downhill from there.

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      5 months ago

      Oh man that was one of the few windows distros I never felt too compelled to reinstall. Perf just never degraded that much with a reasonably defragged drive (jesus I am dating myself with that statement)

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      5 months ago

      I remember all the nicknames from when XP came out. I don’t remember which was more common; disco windows, or teletubby windows.