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by drooopy 30 days ago
Vista was an absolute dumpster fire but in no way compares to the awfulness of ME.
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irishcoffee 29 days ago
The whole reason I responded to you was because you said "Millennium/2000"

Millennium _was_ Windows ME, millennium edition. Windows 2000 was completely different. :)

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bigstrat2003 30 days ago
Vista wasn't remotely a dumpster fire. I used it for almost its entire lifetime, it was totally fine.
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schlauerfox 30 days ago
Yeah, Vista Ultimate had animated desktops, it was stable for what I did, used ReadyBoost SD card for increased performance and the HP Pavilion convertable pen/touch screen was awesome. Not everyone had the same experience.
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bflesch 30 days ago
People did all the XP customization with compositor 3d effects and matrix screensavers. Then they hyped up Longhorn with all the magazines and delivered the Vista dumpster fire.

IIRC ME would just randomly crash explorer.exe with task bar disappearing but you could recover some of it. On Vista it was just overall sluggish and laggy visual experience.

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