this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
1209 points (98.8% liked)

memes

10680 readers
1864 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As usual I think that sentiment was retroactive, certainly once Vista came out. At launch, people hated the Fisher-Price look of the Luna default UI. Like, a lot. The switch to the NT based kernel for the home version of Windows also caused a shitton of people's hardware and peripherals not to work anymore because they needed new drivers and the manufacturers of said gadgets -- if they were still in business -- could not be arsed. Some of this could be alleviated by bullying that hardware's Windows 2000 drivers into working with XP. Some of it could not.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They should've just used the Silver theme instead of blue luna. Unless it didn't exist on launch.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I liked XP in its own era, it's not just nostalgia. Although computers and the Internet in general were very exciting to me back then.