▲ 506 ▼ Enshittification only hurts product itself. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 142 comments fedilink hide all child comments Fixed version: https://lemmy.world/post/21827096
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (3 children) Younger than Vista, that's for sure. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (2 children) Or Windows ME. Ugh. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) ME had that thing where you didn't need to constantly fuss with autoexec.bat and config.sys to use different software. That was an insane amount of added value... But the rest of the system was so bad that nobody liked the tradeoff. Even today I'm in awe about how MS could make this tradeoff negative. It takes a serious amount of dedication. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* I stayed with NT/2000 and my gf had ME on a junker Compaq display model her rents picked up at Circuit City maybe. I think I switched it back up 98SE so she could write papers without it crashing or lagging all the time. She’d play the Money Python Holy Grail game, but it always would crash at one specific point. I gotta ask her what it was and see if I can find a copy to run in a VM. permalink fedilink source parent [–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Windows ME was incredibly short lived though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Longer ago than the others though. And there hasn't been a single version of Windows that didn't make me bite my desk. Windows 95 jammed itself up so often that my friends and I kept a fresh install in a separate directory to at least skip installation when setting it up from scratch. permalink fedilink source parent [–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Vista doesn't deserve the hate it gets. There was very little difference between it and 7 which everyone loves. Vista was a giant upgrade from XP, it was like going from GemOS to win95 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cypher@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago What also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly. permalink fedilink source parent [–] einlander@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Vista was fine.ir was just sold on underpowered PCs because Microsoft let them, and it was the first windows os to actually enforce user levels. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Vista was replaced piecewise through years until most things started working. By that time, W7 was already out with all those changes packed-up from the beginning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (2 children) Or Windows ME. Ugh. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) ME had that thing where you didn't need to constantly fuss with autoexec.bat and config.sys to use different software. That was an insane amount of added value... But the rest of the system was so bad that nobody liked the tradeoff. Even today I'm in awe about how MS could make this tradeoff negative. It takes a serious amount of dedication. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* I stayed with NT/2000 and my gf had ME on a junker Compaq display model her rents picked up at Circuit City maybe. I think I switched it back up 98SE so she could write papers without it crashing or lagging all the time. She’d play the Money Python Holy Grail game, but it always would crash at one specific point. I gotta ask her what it was and see if I can find a copy to run in a VM. permalink fedilink source parent [–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Windows ME was incredibly short lived though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Longer ago than the others though. And there hasn't been a single version of Windows that didn't make me bite my desk. Windows 95 jammed itself up so often that my friends and I kept a fresh install in a separate directory to at least skip installation when setting it up from scratch. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) ME had that thing where you didn't need to constantly fuss with autoexec.bat and config.sys to use different software. That was an insane amount of added value... But the rest of the system was so bad that nobody liked the tradeoff. Even today I'm in awe about how MS could make this tradeoff negative. It takes a serious amount of dedication. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* I stayed with NT/2000 and my gf had ME on a junker Compaq display model her rents picked up at Circuit City maybe. I think I switched it back up 98SE so she could write papers without it crashing or lagging all the time. She’d play the Money Python Holy Grail game, but it always would crash at one specific point. I gotta ask her what it was and see if I can find a copy to run in a VM. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* I stayed with NT/2000 and my gf had ME on a junker Compaq display model her rents picked up at Circuit City maybe. I think I switched it back up 98SE so she could write papers without it crashing or lagging all the time. She’d play the Money Python Holy Grail game, but it always would crash at one specific point. I gotta ask her what it was and see if I can find a copy to run in a VM. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Windows ME was incredibly short lived though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Longer ago than the others though. And there hasn't been a single version of Windows that didn't make me bite my desk. Windows 95 jammed itself up so often that my friends and I kept a fresh install in a separate directory to at least skip installation when setting it up from scratch. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Longer ago than the others though. And there hasn't been a single version of Windows that didn't make me bite my desk. Windows 95 jammed itself up so often that my friends and I kept a fresh install in a separate directory to at least skip installation when setting it up from scratch. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) Vista doesn't deserve the hate it gets. There was very little difference between it and 7 which everyone loves. Vista was a giant upgrade from XP, it was like going from GemOS to win95 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cypher@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago What also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Cypher@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago What also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago What also completely screwed Vista was all of the XP era PCs getting a Vista Ready sticker slapped on when they very much did not have the hardware to run it properly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] einlander@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Vista was fine.ir was just sold on underpowered PCs because Microsoft let them, and it was the first windows os to actually enforce user levels. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Vista was replaced piecewise through years until most things started working. By that time, W7 was already out with all those changes packed-up from the beginning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago Vista was replaced piecewise through years until most things started working. By that time, W7 was already out with all those changes packed-up from the beginning. permalink fedilink source parent
