XP really was their one good OS. I even bought a copy of that one. Well... goodish.

@lord_nougat @gabriel Ok, so the whole #XP thing (and pretending I don't like XP just for show here) do you think #Win7 was that far different to XP? (If so how...?)

Was it a massive jump or maybe just it's number change mostly?

Good to have a comparison chart but I remember looking over it a lot at the time, and mainly added was the incorporation and ability to have more capacity disk / GPT partition / more ram and not really discontinue anything or disable anything in exchange - so was still great.

So how about both XP and Win7 could be considered great?

XP wins for being slimmer / faster (1 #CD and even still has recent updated slip-streamed ISO's to give it that useful modern kick for updates while installing and wider spectrum of drivers not needing further motherboard driver installs after). Again even the basic default XP drivers without heavy drilling can be not much difference or just the usual install over them as with anything.

So for non-changing users ➡️ XP is enough and then Win7 ➡️ a bit more ability / compatibility.

Both have 32bit and 64bit versions too (which actually might not make that much difference as well and can even make sense to keep 32bit to keep older apps going.

Considering how hard #Linux was to install / get functioning (maybe only recently or since Ubuntu 10 years ago) I don't think people got that bad a deal.

What do you think for these points? Sometimes we miss things in hindsight but older stuff can be simpler... even as Micro$haft being monopoly but very limited even at that time to exploit users.

As for security I once challenged all the #Fediverse techies to hack my XP / Win7 machine to prove it was so bad and "oooh no you should update right away" to "latest version" like it was the next fashion without any big reasons....
Anyway no takers to prove me wrong / all failed to reply :D

To other readers:
Yes this is a #Windows post - go suck a penguin 🐧 for a bit it's just some talk and don't act like linux is not just another Playstation for you made legit by a corporate world fucking the world using machine code and cold people work else you'd stay the geek you were unpaid :) 🖕 (:

(and then maybe you would go back to using / programming with Win7 lol) ! hehe - feelings...