Why was XP so comfy?
It wasn't, it's pure shit, looks like a kids toy.
Because you didn't know any better
>>54384828
Because since XP they took out a shit ton of useful stuff and replaced it with worthless "features" that nobody wants.
>>54384828
Because life was carefree as a child, you see everything through a comfy lens
>>54384828
Because you ran it at a comically low resolution.
>>54384838
I think you're describing Windows everything after Windows 8
>>54384838
This.
7 or 2000 is comfy. XP is just surreal now. I don't know how I managed to live with the default theme for a fucking decade.
going from windows 98 to XP was pretty comfy.
>>54384893
Olive theme master race
>>54384916
I liked Silver myself but Olive was pretty comfy
>>54384893
You know that its only a few settings to make XP indistinguishable from 2000.
What really makes 2000 god tier is that product activation had not been implemented. It's literally the last and best non-botnet proprietary OS.
>>54384916
olive was nice, but classic + space was better
>>54384828
Because we had it for so long
so comfy~ xD
-.-'
>>54384828
>was
fucking millennials...
>>54384884
This.
It was a simpler time
The control panel navigation made fucking sense
>>54384849
/thread
>>54385372
lets see that taskbar
POSReady 2009 has the best XP theme
>>54387365
I wish they'd just remake XP or keep updating it forever. I'd pay a monthly subscription just to have that OS back with modern functionality and security.
>>54387525
>OS monthly premiums
Disgusting.
>comfy
Fuck off.
because it couldn't read floppy disk or dvd's before SP1
so good
>>54387535
Fuck off. I only said that because it's probably the only way they'd ever do it.
>>54387525
2000 was better
xp was normie trash
>>54387365
>that start button
>>54387758
Meh, it's unnoticeable on a 4.5" screen
Nostalgia
/thread
>>54384828
Those hideous themes.
ITT people who have forgotten how good a Microsoft os can be.
Fuck you tablet infected niggers, comfy till I die.
>>54388029
>he's not using POSReady 2009
Because 7 was the last time microsoft edited the entire UI from top to bottom without missing any pieces, 8 had leftovers from 7 and 10 has leftovers from 8....
XP was before microsoft half-assed their UI
>>54388074
I use w7 on my main rigs, and it is probably the last microsoft os I will ever use unless they have some serious shift in leadership and make a good desktop os again.
Tho I highly doubt it will happen.
>>54384828
It wasn't. Felt second rate after coming from 2000, honestly
>>54388211
8 is better
Xfce4 is as close as it gets. Can't say I want the old XP icons back entirely though. The Zune theme, mmmm. Best shit.
>>54388421
only if you replace the start menu
>>54388465
If only the taskbar resembled the XP taskbar.
>>54384828
Because you ran it for 15 fucking years and got used to how shit it was.
Let it die, for God's sake. XP is no longer safe to use. The security is terrible and it is responsible for a good proportion of the hosts belonging to botnets on the internet. (The rest is Linux boxes with guessable root passwords on SSH.)
>>54384828
I thought Vista was more comfy desu
>Aero
>Windows flip
>Those system sounds
It's a shame Vista had shitty driver support and was pretty much abandoned in favor of Windows 7
>>54387608
2000 had no built in firewall
>>54384828
i remember first trying ubuntu after windows xp. holy shit was it great looking , even not having drivers for my modem (or rather not knowing how to configure shit at all) and xorg crashing with nvidia was ok as long as i ran away from the default blue winxp theme. I miss the welcome/shutdown music though.
To this day, to this FUCKING DAY, no picture previewer has been as good as XP's. XP's not only played animated gifs, it had very good scaling capabilities compared to 7's and onwards. I open a pic in my viewer, and the res looks like absolute shit if you zoom in to a size that the pic isn't in. However, on XP's picture viewer, it scaled bilinearly and pretty fast. I don't know why they got downgraded with their new previewers. Makes no sense.
>>54384884
indeed
>>54384828
i still use it
>>54384828
what's comfy about that shit? I didn''t like that and switched to uuubangooo in 2007.
I still rollin XP
>>54384916
Silver at times, but mostly blue with Niagara falls wallpaper. Shit was comfy yo. Too bad i didnt have internet at the time.
I still use it for writing and programming on an old sony laptop, and sometimes i play pinball with the volume all the way up
>>54387525
>have that OS back with modern functionality and security
It's called every version after XP. And you can have it with single payment.
>>54389358
Well, it had, but there was nothing that Microsoft could do about it. And people enjoyed it when they run it on proper modern hardware, not some shit from 2001 they had at home (see Mojave experiment). They idiots decided to upgrade that hardware to something modern, W7 came by and it was the best OS ever, even though it felt like paid service pack for Vista. Developers didn't even care and just renamed the Vista drivers to 7 and it worked.
Baby duck syndrome
Just made the leap to windows 7. These threads make me feel like it was a plunge :3
>>54384828
Because ignorance is a bliss.
>>54384828
Same reason your mom is.
Because it's old
because you have autism
>>54388074
Nah, that was Vista.
All the icons in 7 come from Vista, so does the aero theme and many other things.
Vista no updates master race
>>54387365
Xp themes could be demanding on especially laptops. I remember cleaning up my uncles laptop. It was running like shit.
Windows 7 with xp theme <3
>>54384828
Because first consumer Windows with NT kernel.
It was crashing every six hours instead of every 90 minutes like Windows 98 did.
I haven't run a Windows system except on a Virtual Machine since Windows 95.
>>54384893
Then why the fuck did you use the default theme
It took literally all of 30 seconds to change it to look identical to Win2K
>>54388029
>Michael Jackson shit all over the walls
>>54384893
Black and orange meme theme master race
>>54384828
Because it was the perfect transition into GNU/Linux distros.
It had about exact customizability:comfort ratio as Ubuntu in the same period for average pleb and many users found it easy to switch.
After that, Windows became unusable for everyone but old people and gamers, so everyone moved to OSX or Linux, depending on their interests and sexual preference.
Also this: >>54384849
>>54388421
what does 8 have that 7 doesn't?
>>54392352
Performance improvements
>>54384828
it was, until i needed more than 3gb of ram.
>>54392382
is it like those play store app changelogs that just say "we fixed some bugs and improved the overall performance :^)"?
>>54392426
No, there's a noticeable difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8, I'm not going by what Microsoft says, I'm going by what I say.
>>54392382
You mean the fake shutdown / kernel suspension trick, which you can do in Windows 7 (and Vista, and XP) as well?
Improvements in the CPU scheduler aren't worth mentioning as "performance improvements".
>>54389869
>it scaled bilinearly and pretty fast
Still pretty slow on an old Pentium 4. The delay was noticeable and I used to find it borderline annoying.
>>54392754
>You mean the fake shutdown / kernel suspension trick
I couldn't give less of a shit about startup or shutdown times. I'm talking the fucking OS runs better than Windows 7.
It was the apex of the windows operating system.
Windows 8.1 is pretty comfy. What with classic shell and all.
>>54384828
Because it didn't crash constantly, like previous Windows versions.
Was it? I mean, I have very good memories from the XP era, but I don't remember anything in particular that I could consider GREAT.
>>54384855
because it is the maximum and minimum of what microsoft achieved
