2025-12-21 07:17 UTC
98* was pure garbage. You could literally bypass the login screen on 98 because it had no real user account and tokens, just profiles for convenience.
Driver support was awful, there was no memory protection so drivers constantly caused bsod. XP was the first time the consumer desktop got the NT foundation, meaning real user/session security, far better stability under load, and way fewer “one program crashed, so the OS is toast” moments.
XP had its problems too, it's still Windows afterall and Windows was always garbage. But 98 was **awful**.
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@NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2025-12-21 09:09
Yes 98 was terrible. 2000 wasn't so bad. But XP started the data harvesting, the lying to users, the forced applications, and so much more. On top of even worse security than 2000 (also nt) had. I could go on for days how bad it was.
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@Lee@retrolemmy.com 2025-12-21 12:51
I think you're mixing up ME and 2000. ME (consumer) came after 98 (consumer) and 2000 (business) was the NT (business) version. I ran 2000 for a few years. Huge step up from 98/ME in stability and less eye candy bloat than XP.