I miss holographic stuff. Objectively made it harder to read but was still cool.
I also miss all of the clear cases on electronics from the same time period.
These CDs looked legit. They were thicker too, to make you feel like you bought something substantial.
Best MS operating system ever IMO. Rock solid. Absolutely could not fault it. I switched to Linux before XP.
Classic theme ftw, and arguably the best version of the classic theme too.
So functional!
For the non command line folks it was peak.
Yeah I don’t think 2000 gets enough love because it was a server OS but I preferred using it to XP even on my desktop.
I was too young to really know what was going on at the time but when my parents upgraded me from my Windows 98 spare parts PC they tossed Windows 2000 on the new PC and I remember it being quite wonderful. I never did get to experience Vista nor ME because my parents were well enough tapped into the computer scene to know what was up. Now I get to help them setup their first home server this weekend
I used it on my gaming PC for years and loved it. It’s crazy how it’s been downhill for over two decades now.
I greatly preferred XP to 2000. 2000 still needed a ton of configuration, and device specific drivers that were difficult to find. XP simplified a lot of that with their PNP support, but they still had robust configuration options for power users.
Me too. 2000 seemed.... Slow compared to XP on the same hardware, but to be fair the hardware I had was cobbled together from parts that my father's employer was going to throw out
Microsoft put a lot of work into speeding up the boot times with XP. Windows 2000 booted glacially slow by comparison. Though I'd say once booted, 2000 was a bit leaner and quicker.
It looked a lot sleeker too. I had my UI heavily customized, including the boot and login screens, and it made me feel like such a hacker. 2000 made me feel like I was working at an office.
same! came to say that this was the last windows I ever installed.
A simpler time. A time before the ads and telemetry.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, OP, I was there when it was released.
I was there, 3000 years ago...
Shiny.
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