| ▲ | bartvk 2 hours ago |
| Somehow, Windows 2000 does not look dated to me. It looks functional and usable, and maybe even somewhat fresh. I never actually used it long-term (during college, started using Linux), so it can't be nostalgic. Anyone else feel the same? |
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| ▲ | hadlock an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I ran W2K through most of high school and until like 2009 when Valve finally dropped support for it. It was a great OS fast, rarely crashed, most games would actually run on it. Valve dropping W2K support meant TF2 no longer ran without jumping through a bunch of hoops |
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| ▲ | spyrja an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It really wasn't a bad operating system. In fact it kind of blew its (lame) Win9X predecessors out of the water! I ran on Win2000 for years before finally switching to Linux. Of course Microsoft ended up going a different course with its newer "offerings" and I have nothing but pity for those who still have to use their products on a day-to-day basis. |
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| ▲ | roadbuster 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > It really wasn't a bad operating system It was a wonderful operating system. It provided consumer desktop essentials (Plug & Play, DirectX 7, ACPI power management, Windows Driver Model (WDM), and support for consumer I/O interfaces like USB and Firewire) alongside a modernized UI, all running atop the NT kernel. I was extremely lucky to receive a free copy of Windows 2000 Pro as a student, because I rode that horse for years. Then Microsoft added a green start button and dark blue backgrounds and packaged Win2k for home users as Windows XP. | | |
| ▲ | gosub100 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | the drawback for me was the startup time. it really seemed to hang out on the splash screen for quite a while (just as NT4 did, and ofc they were from the same core) | | |
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| ▲ | bobmcnamara 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You can fix Windows7/8/10/11 with Retrobar |
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| ▲ | hsbauauvhabzb an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The only thing better is server 2003. |
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| ▲ | GeekyBear 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Dave Cutler created and ran the Windows NT product line through Windows 2000. Other people ran Windows XP, but Cutler was still in charge of Server 2003 before moving on to special projects like creating 64 bit Windows and Microsoft Azure. His attitude towards the eradication of known bugs really led to Windows feeling rock solid, with the exception of driver bugs (being the leading cause of blue screens). | |
| ▲ | RamRodification an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Having had consulting jobs working with Windows servers around 2015, this was ruined for me. Sooo many ancient out of support 2003 severs. Seeing it actually triggers some light anxiety ("oh no not another one!") | |
| ▲ | bobmcnamara 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I ran 2003 on my laptop for ages. Only tricky part was installing the audio stack. |
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