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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, they've alternated between good and bad ever since 98.

98 - good

ME - bad

XP - good

Vista - bad

7 - good

8 - bad

10 - good (eventually)

11 - bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

ME wasn't that bad. I think I just got lucky in terms of stability?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows ME was a crapshoot. One of our computers blue screened a few times during the couple months we had it installed; the other couldn't even run an hour without hard crashing.

Nowadays I can't even remember the last time Windows crashed. Newer versions are definitely a lot more stable, though suck in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The one machine I had that ran Millennium Edition was a Sony laptop that came out right after it launched. Since it was the oem install, ig it survived for some time. My dad used it for Oracle DB work before I got it and used as a computer that could access the internet. I've only had one bsod with it. But realplayer deleted all my VXD files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It just was not much different to 98 and had less good UI

[–] GetOffMyLan 1 points 2 months ago

ME was a nightmare. I remember as a teenager my friend was stuck with it on his home pc and I got to the point he couldn't install many apps (including Microsoft ones) as they gave up trying to support it.