flatrute wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:08 pm Perhaps I myself am the one in fever dream...

Whatever. You keep your opinion. I just think XP is overrated as hell.

On another note, maybe I should not have defeated myself so soon

andreizabest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:23 pm One of the first things they do is criticise the Luna theme then proceeded to praise one of the beta themes which is basically just glorified windows 2000. It is a matter of preference but it is fair to say that most people who ended up upgrading and using Windows XP didn't have a problem with the theme at the very least. The Luna theme is one of the things that makes XP so memorable and that people look back on to.

Except that people hated it at first. It was only until SP2 that people would look past many of its problems. Also in the video he is fine about Royale/Energy Blue which is basically a much more finished looking Luna.

andreizabest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:23 pm Another things is the setup theme. The thing users might not hear at all due to lack of audio drivers, and those that do will only really hear it once. Criticised because it was reused from the IE3 starter kit. Besides the fact that it doesn't really make a difference whether it's reused or not, recycling sounds is relatively common for Windows that IE3 starter kit song was also used in Encarta 98 as the north america virtual flight song.

It is not simply about assets reusing. It is about Microsoft artificially taking old stuffs and advertising them as if they were brand new, never been invented before.

andreizabest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:23 pm Also the complaints about the differences between Home and Professional versions of XP. Do people seriously expect feature parity between two versions of Windows with a 100$ price difference? This divide already existed earlier with Windows ME and Windows 2000 which he praises so much. And no, most people back then didn't make use of GPEDIT, file encryption or other administrative tools, and those that needed those feature would have known to get Windows XP Professional instead be it illegitimately or legitimately.

You are right that ones needing such advanced features will get the pricier but then there is Windows 98, a home release of Windows, capable of doing things considered "professional" out of the box.

andreizabest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:23 pm Also the end makes the whole thing feel like a glorified Linux advertisement.

Understandable. He had just switched to Linux a few months before the video was made.

andreizabest wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:23 pm Oh and the way the whole video was edited made it feel like a fever dream.

He is a maroon whale.

Happy New Year (Eve)