Steam to drop support for windows 7 and 8 in 2024
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I always laugh at people that hate on the new version of Windows, as if any of the older versions were any better. When XP came out there were 98 SE die-hards. When 7 dropped there was the XP die-hards or maybe it was 2000 if you really wanted to be a rebel. When 10 dropped, there was the 7 die-hards. 11 dropped and now it's the 10 die-hards.
If you're worried about the new version of windows because you don't trust Microsoft as a company to not give all your information to the government, track you and then create new advanced AI programs that control you like Skynet or something PROTIP: Stop using Windows altogether. Use something like Qubes with Fedora or Whonix. It's laughable hearing people complain about Windows 11 that are still using 7 as if that wasn't a privacy nightmare when that came out in its day either. Just upgrade your windows already or stop using windows.
wasn't 2000 just a business only OS?
2000 was definitely marketed to businesses, but I think a bunch of people switched to it after the ME clusterfuck before XP came out.
Yes. It was pretty much an OS for the dot com boom-type business crowd
Windows 2000 was Windows 98 SE with a nicer default font and minus the crashing.
No, Windows 2000 was based on Windows NT. It has a completely different lineage to Windows 95/98. Windows 2000 became Windows XP, and the 95/98/Me side was abandoned.
Yes, a kernel that didn't suck. But most people don't care what a kernel is.
No, at one point that literally was the neckbeard OS to use even for gaming. I remember it well. Cause ME was ghey basically. The idea was that 2000 was basically ME without the ghey so 2000 was the best until XP but lots of users kept with 2000 cause XP was ghey until like SP2 or something.
Windows ME was conceived and launched in just six months, literally just backported a bunch of win2k features onto a win98 base because otherwise there wouldn't be a product launch in time.
And it fucking shows.