I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid. I used it as my gaming os for years while folks struggled with windows me and windows xp (IIRC, xp did eventually become pretty good)

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fireflash38 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

XP and 7 were only good because it was based off of 2000/NT.

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buran77 an hour ago | parent [-]

Literally everything that came after Windows Me both in the consumer and server space is based on NT, to this day. So I'm not sure this argument weighs much.

P.S. My personal opinion is that Windows could be a great OS but MS keeps intentionally saddling it with more and more shit in the name of getting more from the user, instead of giving more to the user.

	▲	aeyes 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The kernel is solid, its all the userspace software where they are fumbling hard.

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aleph_minus_one 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> I remember windows 2000 being pretty rock solid.

Windows NT (including Windows 2000) was considered to be a workstation OS by Microsoft. From Windows XP on, the NT-based Windows operating systems (except for the server ones) were targeted to consumers.