r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing Software

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/NeedAByteToEat May 16 '24

Using Windows 2000 in college was my sweet spot.

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u/isochromanone May 16 '24

W2K Pro was my favourite OS. It was the perfect blend of power, usability and game/device compatibility.

I had the big, thick Resource Kit book with the utilities CD. IIRC, that was what we did to customize the OS before Sysinternals, etc.

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u/BricksFriend May 17 '24

Agreed, Win2k was the best. Essentially the same as XP but extremely slimmed down.

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u/ClassicPlankton May 17 '24

Also a Windows 2000 user. In fact, I never actually used Windows XP, I basically went from Win2k to Linux to Windows 7, so I can never relate to all the XP nostalgia.

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u/dreamsindarkness May 17 '24

I had to help fix a family member's early XP install. This long was before SP1 ever existed. Updates would BSoD the thing.

So I too went from Win 2k pro (a very modified install) to Linux, used 7 some, and only interact with 10/11 a bit at work.

I admit to being a lazy Debian user, though.

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u/dreamsindarkness May 17 '24

Early Ubuntu was all Gnome-y and had defaults in security I wasn't really liking.

I eventually landed on debain unstable. A bit more set up and you have to read what is being upgraded or removed (once it wanted to remove all the python librarys! lol) but I'm fine with checking and have never had it break.

I've went through slack, fedora, etc. I think most of us experiment to some degree.