![]() Whereas every version of Windows since has done far too much GUI overhaul (and always to the detriment of UX in my personal opinion) while doing very little to improve my core complaints with the OS. Often little changes like adding short cut keys to Notepad.exe. Windows 2000 took NT4 and focused on bettering the stuff that didn’t work rather than breaking the stuff that did. Yet Windows 2000 arrived and it felt genuinely like a next generation OS for its time. Amiga was basically only ram by enthusiasts. ![]() Apple were struggling too: MacOS 9 was less stable than Windows 9x (and that’s saying something!) and OS X took a couple of releases to really take off. BeOS was awesome but you could tell it was a dying company. ![]() Linux was getting close but still had a lot of rough edges. And thus XP drive me to run Linux as my primary OS.īut back when 2000 was around, most other OSs were terrible. XP did mature into something that was decent, but the initial release of XP was just an uglier and more system hungry version of 2000. And I’m including Microsoft Basic in that scope as well. Personally Windows 2000 was the only Microsoft operating system I’ve ever liked.
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