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by IronWolve 1685 days ago
I really liked how stable W2k was as a workstation. I could run a bunch of terminals, programs and hardly ever had a crash. Nothing is worse working an outage or deployment and POOF there goes your desktop.

This was also around the time you could even run bbwin and themes, and tweak it some for fun. Pretty sure cygwin was also around.
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manbart 1684 days ago
Windows Server with the Desktop Experience enabled (plus a few other tweaks: https://www.windowsworkstation.com/win2016-2019/) is much better than Windows 10/11 IMO. Way less bullshit that way
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flatiron 1685 days ago
Cygwin was very much around. I went to college in 2001 and was forced to use w2k and lived in Cygwin as a result.
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rbanffy 1684 days ago
Cygwin was a wonderful thing. It wasn’t fast, but integrated the Linux side with the Windows side much better than WSL2 does (at the expense of binary compatibility). It allowed me to develop server apps for Linux on a corporate sanctioned Windows box and deploy them to the real servers (mostly Linux with some Solaris).
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