IDK vista sucked on launch but after you update it it even runs fine on 64bit pentium 4’s
ppl just bitch all the time, I have pleasent memories of W8. I started streaming on garbo hardware with a GT330m on a pcie card and literally the optimizations in W8 made it possible. I want W8 AME ffs.
I used 7 and XP and 98SE too, but at different stages i my life. 98 and 95 feel more like toys from my childhood, They don’t feel like… an operating system. I got to windows XP and it was OK, but I was tired of my shit crashing. I swapped to linux, skipped 7 because I had to use it at school (7 starter, didn’t like 7, still don’t much like 7 lol even though its absolutely fine), linux felt like I actually had control of my computer for once, and when I researched FileSystems, I saw that XFS would use my 40GB PATA HDD the best, and I basically haven’t changed much since.
When I was in college I was in the IT program and I got access to MS Dreamspark. Because I am the little hacker piece of shit that I am, I ended up finding out how to exploit the key system in DS and upgraded a bunch of random garbage keys from like WXP and W7 and maaayyyybe some WVista machines (but you had to track the build number and thats not always on the sticker ech) and used them in W8 and W10 later on (if you had a DS upgraded key it had an in system flag to be passed through as a beta test of the upgrade platform, but if you still have those keys you can move them up, and maybe down, to whatever OS you want, I only ever went up though).
When I got to windows 8 I was really into Netrunner and Arch Linux and I was posting on here more often. I could see where they had gotten inspiration from and I liked the vast improvements over the last OS I had used, which at that point really was just XP. If I ever used W7 I just guessed. The only time I ever learned dick about W7 I hacked the shit out of the aero subsystem on an AMD APU laptop and put my little pony shit everywhere so no one would steal my laptop (long story short, middle of no where school, I was given permission to type because I have had arthritis issues for forever that are so bad I can’t write correctly, kids would steal my shit, I had to be scary to not have my shit stolen).
W8 was really neat because the tricks I had learned from hacking aero partially applied to W8. Metro had a lot of similarities, and even used some of the same code. I am Not a developer, but I know enough about shit that I can figure out what something does, or guess and ask ppl or google and figure it out. But when I ripped up metro I found there were example programs hidden in early 8.1 for stuff like having the terminal be in a box on the start menu, or having a scaling window open and boom theres your music directory and maybe you could put a music player in, there was an applet system I think similar to W7 and WVi. It was neat, but I didn’t quite understand a lot of it. At that point the most advanced thing I had done was badly program a firewall for a thing in minecraft while not understanding a lua manual, so I could have misread something. But, having little things to try and comments to read, I think I got it.
Shame no one really put it to use though. Someone coulda done AI stuff early and had like time of day AI integration for like mouse movement on the start menu. So whatever you open, the mouse will gravitate to what you most likely use during the day. At least that was one of my ideas to help with the tablet issues, like auto aim in CSGO. But I don’t think that woulda helped XDDD
But anyways yah W8 is cool