Is Windows XP the best OS ever made

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Is Windows XP the best OS ever made

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Due to my comfortable XP compy being practically dead, I decided to by a laptop (first ever).

Since I buy it for money, of course I am looking for a reasonable price/power ratio. But. Since quite a portion of my stationary computer usage is dedicated to retro gaming, I was afraid most modern os (Windows 11) might create issues with WinUAE (as an Amiga guy, I use WinUAE heavily).

Apparently it does not, but in a meantime of getting an answer I began to ponder on XP

I just love my dying XP, it's one of the bestest thing that happened to 90/2000s human. It was in operation longer athan any other OS (in operation = quite functional).

Would you agree. Or is it just nostalgia taking over me. OG/CWF all happened on XP. I still use the same monitor, from registering on OG in 2004 towards the wildest drunken post-internet posts. So it may be a bias. But objectively, was it

good OS
perfect OS
interesting OS

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Re: Is Windows XP the best OS ever made

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You're right, a lot of interesting stuff happened during Windows XP. Wifi, USB, Bluetooth, Internet Explorer 6, and MSN Messenger started to really become things with Windows XP. It's the operating system of the dotcom bubble.

Oh, and its gradients and colors had a lasting impact on the world. One could argue that the theme of this forum software is very much inspired by the colors of Windows XP's user interface.
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Re: Is Windows XP the best OS ever made

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Observational thing is, xp is sort of becoming a generation issue. Not widely recognized by sociologists, because its still too early, but.

I still support my own (who wouldnt) wild hypothesis that EVERYTHING that happened during xp rise to power period will be distinguished as An Era by future generations

XP, have it in mind, has risen to power along Internet rise to power

Windows 95, 98 were purely intimate experiences

XP welcomed globalisation, social media, forums, webbrowsers and everything positive and negative associated with them

So it is generational already, innocently. OG, Blackdiam, CWF, Abandonia, Home of the Underdogs are just bubbles in its Universe

Archeologically, XP culture can be clearly distinguished from Facebook, Twitter and TikTok cultures. 😉
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