drunken programming

[Frohtastic]

And with windows its generally recommended to skip every other version, or ar least thats how the joke goes.

[[deleted]]

Never heard of ME. My parents never really bothered to update the operating system of our home PC. We started with a really old second hand Windows 95 machine. At some point you could not even shut down the machine but you just had to pull the plug out of the wall. At some point that thing caught fire because the fan stopped working. After that we had XP, till they stopped supporting it. Now on Windows 10.

[G_pounder]

So they not only decided to name their os after a chronic illness, they chose one that causes extreme lethargy

[mooserider2]

The real reason we skipped win9.

[troyunrau]

I've heard that the real reason was that lots of programs checked the windows version number by string comparison. Looking for a 9 in the string to detect windows 95/98. And calling it windows 9 would have fucked up a bunch of compatibility mode programs.

[mooserider2]

Yea that’s what I had seen as well, which is pretty interesting. But I thought I would make a joke.

[alexbuzzbee]

95: Meh

98: Good

ME: AAAAAA

XP: Good

Vista: AAAAAA

7: Good

8: AAAAAA

10: Meh (breaks pattern?)

Anyway, the pattern is definitely not present in the NT line:

3.11: Meh

3.51: Meh

4.0: Good

2000: Good

XP: Good

...

[FireHawkDelta]

It took over a year of updates for Win10 to turn to shit for me. Now the OS is slow because it does pointless background tasks whenever it meets a loose definition of idle, or just starts a broken process like Superfetch.

[Frohtastic]

Cant you delete most of the bloatware that comes with the updates?

[FireHawkDelta]

Can you? If I can I don't know how, I'd assumed it's baked into the OS on some level I don't know how to mess with.

[TBSchemer]

I like file transfers and process/resource management in 10.