>Earliest x64 Windows release
>No Aero
>No Ribbon
>No UAC bullshit
>Completely themeable unlike 7
>Preserves classic theme better
>Themeable WMP/Winamp
>Legendary-tier wallpapers
>Contemporary with great software and games
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And yet, despite all of this, it survived. Thrived, even.
I dont get it why people dont say Win7 was the last viable
There is nothing wrong in Windows 7 one might even say it is decent.
Eventhough XP was better, you gotta admit that after year 2010 you would be increasingly more in the need of 64-bits, which windows 7 conveniently enables
Win7 32-bit is not needed however, just use XP if 32-bits is a possibility
Dont > me bro
which one were you
>I dont get it why people dont say Win7 was the last viable
Nobody is denying this.
8 was a decade too early thinking there was going to be some mass transition to tablets, sadly ipad took over the space years later.
10 was 7 but with even better qol features, but sadly the whole "spyware as an OS" thing with the telemetry totally ruined it.
I don't think a single person is recommending to use xp over 7 for any reason other than nostalgia.
daily reminder that there was a source code leak and there is no reason that programmers couldn't release a service pack 5 or 6 for daily driving in 2024
>No support for modern software/hardware
>Needs hacked drivers for usb 3.0 and nvme
>Fuels unemployed spergs
There is because making custom XP version requires alot of work and skill. NEETs who are interested in daily-driving XP are too tech-illiterate to dick around that leak on their own and too poor to pay someone for that. Needless to say that it is still the property of MS, so the devs would risk getting hit with a lawsuit.
>devs would risk getting hit with a lawsuit.
There's actually some precedent to stand on in an adjacent field. There was a law passed a few years back to allow for people to host "private servers" of games that no longer have official servers being run by a company. I think there's another law in the same field also moving up the chain in the next couple years as well.
I think you could make the argument that an OS that no longer receives official support would be in that realm.
>NEETs who are interested in daily-driving XP are too tech-illiterate
aka guys who make these threads.
IQfy tried when it leaked and there's some missing parts. iirc it was a struggle to get it to compile. eventually everyone gave up
the only good thing to come out of the leak was the theme tool, if only it leaked 20 years ago...
that purple looks so frickin sick
Agreed. here's a dl for the theme and the packer. He never finished the theme, there's a few elements not recolored but it looks amazing
https://files.catbox.moe/sxz5bh.zip
i'll have to do an xp install sometime soon, i have a 30gb ssd laying around somewhere i could have some fun on.
if only my sound card wasn't totally fricked passing it through on VM.
>and there is no reason
Other than it being a serious federal crime with a prison sentence and massive fine.
>no reason
Except anybody stupid enough to touch code stolen from a multi-trillion dollar company is also too stupid to create anything worthwhile (see: IQfy).
>viable
ok buddy
XP x64 was useless
better than XP's default Fisher-Price blue theme
ribbons are an objective improvement to 1-D menu bars
still better than the only other option being "run as admin"
It's only "completely themable" with third party apps that enable it, also 9x-based Windows had more first-party theming
You can run WMP/Winamp on Win 7
I'd argue Win 2k/Me's wallpapers were more iconic as a collection. not like you can't use any pape on any OS with a desktop anyway
completely subjective and arguable against every other OS
>XP x64 was useless
32bit only allows for 4gb of RAM
32-bit server 2003 (which is basically xp with different defaults) supports 64GB
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/memory-limits-for-windows-releases#physical-memory-limits-windows-server-2003-with-service-pack-2-sp2
You can do up to 64GB with Windows 2000 if you get the right edition and the right hardware
Your processes will still max out at 4GB each because you have 32 bit pointers.
Use multipointers
How to? i want to overclock my 32 bit piss off shit
this is a solved problem
ugly and old
it's funny because it was universally hated on release
Not really, it was quite welcome after WinME and Win2000. Most people were still on 95/98SE.
Maybe in the way the WoW was hated on release by the hardcore mmo crowd calling it "carebare mmo" and all that, but the people who played it definitely enjoyed it enough to keep it alive for the last 20 years.
You must be 18+ to post here.
>thread about 23 year old OS
>yOuMustBE18toPOstheRe
What are you talking about? XP was loved from the get-go. It was in a completely different league from WinMe and only a few diehards stuck with 98.
people called it the "fisher price" os because of the color scheme.
people just didn't appreciate how dope the graphics were because they were so used to the gritty win 95 look for over 6 years.
It is fisher price garbage. Luckily the entire themes service can be disabled.
it's kino. you're just a coward.
Get new material
>windows bla bla bla
who cares, install gentoo you homosexual
install xp on baremetal you coward frick
nta, does baremetal mean just installing it on a drive? I've read it a couple of times here but I'm not sure what it means
yes actually installing it on your machine instead of spinning up a VM
I love windows XP so much it's unreal
this summer I'll use my T40 again and take it to the cafe or the library
Best OS
Windows 11 kernel with updated security Windows 2000 userspace if I can choose
>viable
no, /b/ro
>XP
8.1 was better
dell laptops are underrated
put windows server 2012 R2 on it
Everything about this is cringe
>Daily baby duck thread
ayoooo ong xp do be bussin af blud
I really liked Windows 98 SE as a kid, moving to XP was a pain in the beginning but I managed and in the end it was okay. Far greater than what they come with just after this.
I'm on GNU / Linux most of the time now, but I must say Microsoft had made some good improvement on their OS recently. 98 SE will still be in my heart though.
>No UAC bullshit
windows xp has limited access accounts, it was just so cumbersome to use that not many people used it at all and just set their account to be an administrator, uac, as annoying as it seems sometimes, was enough to get people to start using non-admin-by-default accounts
>Completely themeable unlike 7
this is simply not true, there are full themes for 7. and no, you can't use the argument "but they require hacks!", because guess what? you needed to hack uxtheme on windows xp, too, xp did /not/ support use-made themes officially
x64 Windows release
no, it was based on win2003