β² 957 βΌ What y'all talking about? (mastodon.ml) submitted 2 years ago by drq@mastodon.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 125 comments fedilink hide all child comments What y'all talking about? @linuxmemes
[β] shuro@friends.deko.cloud 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) @teft No, not really. It was stable but lacked versatility. It was nice for business but gave some headaches at home. Also some people went even further and run Server 2000 on home computers :) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] mittorn@masturbated.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) @shuro @teft this was last version that not broke interface consistency. And not' it was not stable. It was buggy like any OS at this time. But at least they found how consistent desktop interface should look. I like how internet explorer 5-6 seamlessly turns to explorer windows and back. How everything looks good using system theme Or menus and system dialogs, easily extendable by custom modules, registered in registry. Or like internet explorer, using gdi is drawing very fast when launched with RDP even with slow internet connection.... Imagine something like this in wayland, which only operates pre-rendered bitmaps, it's just impossible now. And where developers cannot use one toolkit that usin system theme and extending system settings of kde/gnome for 3rdparty app is just impossible. And all of this runs good on 32mb ram. Even now both windows and linux modern desktops are long far way from this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] shuro@friends.deko.cloud 1 point 2 years ago @mittorn I don't care much about interface consistency when I can't run software which worked on '98 :) Also that consistent interface lacked features. A lot. But it did crash far less than 95/98/Me family and still was less rigid and soulless compared to NT. Still I welcomed XP with open arms. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] mittorn@masturbated.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) @shuro @teft this was last version that not broke interface consistency. And not' it was not stable. It was buggy like any OS at this time. But at least they found how consistent desktop interface should look. I like how internet explorer 5-6 seamlessly turns to explorer windows and back. How everything looks good using system theme Or menus and system dialogs, easily extendable by custom modules, registered in registry. Or like internet explorer, using gdi is drawing very fast when launched with RDP even with slow internet connection.... Imagine something like this in wayland, which only operates pre-rendered bitmaps, it's just impossible now. And where developers cannot use one toolkit that usin system theme and extending system settings of kde/gnome for 3rdparty app is just impossible. And all of this runs good on 32mb ram. Even now both windows and linux modern desktops are long far way from this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] shuro@friends.deko.cloud 1 point 2 years ago @mittorn I don't care much about interface consistency when I can't run software which worked on '98 :) Also that consistent interface lacked features. A lot. But it did crash far less than 95/98/Me family and still was less rigid and soulless compared to NT. Still I welcomed XP with open arms. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] shuro@friends.deko.cloud 1 point 2 years ago @mittorn I don't care much about interface consistency when I can't run software which worked on '98 :) Also that consistent interface lacked features. A lot. But it did crash far less than 95/98/Me family and still was less rigid and soulless compared to NT. Still I welcomed XP with open arms. permalink fedilink source parent
