Ipchains: What the fuck did i do?

Linux would be more like a random assortment of planks, slabs of glass, paint cans, and a handwritten set of assembly tips and tricks.

The Oas was actually pretty solod. The only real problem was the removal of the start menu and traditional interface for non-touch computers. It's just that it was a huge fucking problem that destroyed the perception of Win8 even after the issue was addressed.

If Metro had been the alternative interface and the traditional experience the default, it would have been celebrated as a great OS.

I used it and didn’t mind it at the time. I personally never ran into any issues with it, and then upgraded to 7 when I got a chance.

It was certainly more stable than ME, which I also had the pleasure of running.

Vista will always have a special place in my heart. I learned so much from Vista, like 'Oh, wdym I can't go back to XP?" "This is a torrent, and this is an ISO." "This is how you install an OS." "Wdym they're stopping support for XP?" and "This is what Ubuntu is."

They forgot 95 and ME as well.

The biggest issue with Linux is the culture. I get that longtime users get and understand how to use it. They understand the commands. They know what -r and -n do.

I still look at my microwave daily to remember what the buttons do. There's only 6 buttons and a dial. Although, 7 buttons. I just remembered the dial is also a button. It's the start button.

Point is, I'm not going to learn terminal. I'm going to point the thing. Then I'm going to drag the thing. And I'm going to double click the thing.

I've attempted to learn terminal since 2014. I have a 0% success rate doing anything. Even copy/pasting other peoples commands. I always get an error, and I don't understand the error. So I google the error, and then I don't understand the explaination.

The way I have always explained it is, the OS is like a car. And terminal is how mechanics diagnose and fix the car. I tried changing my oil once, and blew up the car.

I do kinda dig the Vision of Windows 8, y'know? Huge focus on Convergence, the unified design language of Metro, Windows Phone's slick design...
Problem is they didn't stick the landing at all, threw everything good in the trash with 10, set the trash can on fire with 11.

Call me crazy but I do think Metro was a much more cohesive design motif than the Fluent that Microsoft slapped on right at the end of 10 and still haven't decided how to handle on 11.

And millennium edition. Everyone forgets ME...god I wish I could. I was stuck with it for years

They didn't. A single low level.employee misspoke at a trade show and the press/internet commentators made a big deal out of it.

ME was basically a less stable 98. I used it for years until the hard drive failed, and it wasn’t the worst thing ever. It was definitely a step down from 98 though, and XP blew it out of the water.

You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.

Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.

Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.

The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.

Seriously, 98 was just the third addition of 95, it wasn't really some big thing of its own.