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by genewitch 482 days ago
windows xp x64 edition was pretty slick; and so was NT4. I agree that 2000 was pretty cool, but perhaps a lot of that is design nostalgia. It was very "serious business OS" where XP and Me looked like jellybeans and cartoons. My favorite windows, though, is win 7 ultimate, Steve Ballmer Edition. i was sad when i had to upgrade to winten.

ninja proof: https://i.imgur.com/l29rDVo.jpeg
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smackeyacky 482 days ago
I get the nostalgia for XP, it was the first windows consumer edition that didn’t suck, but for a server OS 2000 was so lean and easy to manage it makes me wonder how MS lost to Linux. Back then, it was a genuine competition, now you’d have to be crazy to choose windows to deploy anything.
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p_ing 482 days ago
Windows Server still has it's place. AD DS, file services, and SQL Server being the big ones. Linux doesn't have apps that do these things 'better'.
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EvanAnderson 482 days ago
I wish MSFT could build Active Directory and the associated constellation of services on Linux. You can make a reasonable simulacrum with Samba but it isn't as well-integrated.

(My fever dream wish is for a "distribution" of NT that boots in text mode and has an updated Interix subsystem alongside Win32. Throw in ZFS and it would be awesome.)

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p_ing 482 days ago
An NT that boots into text mode wouldn't be terribly useful for software designed for NT today given the high dependency on UI libraries.

I too wish for an NT that was CLI-only, striped of services as much as possible.

     Starting Windows NT...
     
     C:\>
It's too bad Microsoft has no interest as a business in on-prem software.
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EvanAnderson 482 days ago
Server Core is close to what you're talking about re: CLI only.

I agree re: MSFT having no interest in on-prem software. It saddens me.

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p_ing 481 days ago
Core isn't close. It's still a graphical interface.
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genewitch 482 days ago
i never used windows XP, i went from 2000 pro to XP x64 edition, which came out 2 years after XP did.
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Hnrobert42 482 days ago
Maybe, but Win 3.1 was good for me.
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_blk 482 days ago
After SP2 the worst wrinkles are taken care of. Oh, and skip ever second OS release, of course.

I'm not as much against windows as I uses to be but I'm not budging off Ubuntu LTS even though they too try really hard to rock the boat.

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