Hello Nightfox!

** On Wednesday 08.11.23 - 09:06, Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

It's funny to think of Windows XP as nostalgia now. I remember using
XP when it was brand new and thinking it was pretty cool.

You're not alone. I remember when we had to phase Windows XP out, and we
had holdouts who preferred it to Windows 7.

I wasn't an XP holdout, as I liked WIndows 7 as well. But I think Windows XP was one of the best versions of Windows they produced.

XP is operating quite nicely here on two laptops. The laptops
each have a maximum of 3GB ram, but everything I need runs
quite fine.

I recently upgraded one of my XP laptops (Thinkpad T60) from a
230GB HDD to a 1TB SSD with the help of a friend who walked me
through a byte-by-byte transition using a linux tool for one of
my two partitions that wasn't cooperating with the usual
cloning process.

All is quite good with XP.

My other systems are Win7.

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It's funny to think of Windows XP as nostalgia now. I remember usi
XP when it was brand new and thinking it was pretty cool.

You're not alone. I remember when we had to phase Windows XP out, an
had holdouts who preferred it to Windows 7.

I wasn't an XP holdout, as I liked WIndows 7 as well. But I think Win XP was one of the best versions of Windows they produced.

For me I was a windows 2000 holdout, I just couldn't get past how bubbly and dumbed down XP felt after being with 2000 for a couple of years so I stuck with that until Windows 7. Although compared to Windows ME, XP was a dream come true.

Same thing happened with Windows 7, liked it so much I stuck with that until Windows 10 and now I'm stuck on that :) Windows releases are like Star Trek movies, every other one is noticeably better.

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unc0nnected wrote to Ogg <=-

For me I was a windows 2000 holdout, I just couldn't get past how
bubbly and dumbed down XP felt after being with 2000 for a couple of
years so I stuck with that until Windows 7. Although compared to
Windows ME, XP was a dream come true.

This message thread made me think about how I didn't mind Vista all
that much. It was a bit faster than 7, but the hardware at the time was
crap. I remember core 2 duos with 3 GB of RAM being high-end for home
use, and Vista could have used more - did more than XP did. Vista on a
SSD would have been a different story.



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This message thread made me think about how I didn't mind Vista all
that much. It was a bit faster than 7, but the hardware at the time was
crap. I remember core 2 duos with 3 GB of RAM being high-end for home
use, and Vista could have used more - did more than XP did. Vista on a
SSD would have been a different story.

Really? I found Win7 to be remarkably faster than Vista.

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