CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)An excellent overview.
Thank you, my dear Renew Deal.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3.1 worked well for it's time
95 worked well after OSR2 came out
98 worked fairly well
ME should never have been released
2000 worked great
XP worked fine after a few teething issues
Vista also should never have been released
7 works well
8/8.1 "Vista with a cellphone interface"
10- M$ wants to take over your computer
Notice they completely skipped 9.
If they run true to form, 11 will probably work.
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)but it was made a whole lot better if you had Norton software installed. I miss Norton Desktop. I wish they were still in the business of improving Windows.
I still use a modern clone of Norton Commander in Windows(Pablo Commander).
yowzayowzayowza
(7,017 posts)NT 3.1, 3.51, 4.0 then Win2k .... 3.1, 95, 98, ME were a bunch of thunkin posers. Long live Dave Cutler.
TygrBright
(20,759 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)It wasn't worth the $49.99 upgrade price from win98 but didn't seem that bad. It worked fine and gave System Restore. I got a free plastic watch in the process but stole Win XP because the upgrade price was too high for the value.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Also have Win 98, about 25 discs IIRC. All on floppies. I haven't had a PC with a
floppy drive for over ten years or more. Just can't bring myself to throw them out.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)First Windows software that I ever used. IIRC, the PC was a 286.
hunter
(38,311 posts)Before usable MS Windows I was an Atari guy, but I also had IBM & clones running DRDOS and Geoworks.
Before and during Atari days, I used BSD mostly on university computers. BSD was the first "real" operating system I used. (MSDOS doesn't count nor does MS Windows until NT was released.
Switching to Debian from Windows 98SE was like returning home.
I just finished building a new Debian laptop today from a busted and obsolete Windows 7 machine.
It's now my fastest machine, runs like the wind.
The machine was getting to be pretty useless as a Windows machine, which is why it was discarded. Windows 10 would probably choke it. My entire Debian install with all the tools I commonly use, Gimp, Libre Office, etc., is a little over 4 GB.
As a stupid person, I like to keep it simple. The KISS principle.