• Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No, they’ve alternated between good and bad ever since 98.

    98 - good

    ME - bad

    XP - good

    Vista - bad

    7 - good

    8 - bad

    10 - good (eventually)

    11 - bad

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Windows ME was a crapshoot. One of our computers blue screened a few times during the couple months we had it installed; the other couldn’t even run an hour without hard crashing.

        Nowadays I can’t even remember the last time Windows crashed. Newer versions are definitely a lot more stable, though suck in different ways.

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          2 months ago

          The one machine I had that ran Millennium Edition was a Sony laptop that came out right after it launched. Since it was the oem install, ig it survived for some time. My dad used it for Oracle DB work before I got it and used as a computer that could access the internet. I’ve only had one bsod with it. But realplayer deleted all my VXD files.

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        2 months ago

        ME was a nightmare. I remember as a teenager my friend was stuck with it on his home pc and I got to the point he couldn’t install many apps (including Microsoft ones) as they gave up trying to support it.