I’ve since moved on to Win11 but sometimes I still miss XP. RIP.
I also used Windows XP for a much longer time, when everyone was using 7, i was still using XP, first when they stopped supporting XP, did i move onto Windows 10
I thought I was a late transitioner, finally retiring from XP in 2014 for Windows 8. Goddamn.
This, Vista (with appropriate hardware) and 7 were the last good ones
Would be cool if someone could leverage the source code leak to patch it up and get it using modern TLS ciphers and harden the kernel and OS, but doubt that will ever happen, too much work.
7 was great, but vista was a cancer. They gradually fixed it with 8, 10, 11
I got weird looks when I said I enjoyed 8, but never have I ever heard anyone say they thought Vista was good. I am pretty lenient and I remember testing Vista with a dozen or so pc’s in our company and basically all of them had issues and blue screens. To unstable, so we skipped it. It was basically as bad as ME to me.
Whenever I’m feeling nostalgic I find myself wanting to install something like this. Could also have some degree of shock value on people passing by and recognizing the OS.