Reply 23440 of 28356, by Ozzuneoj
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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-12-29, 01:23:LewisRaz wrote on 2022-12-29, 01:09:Spent hours today arguing with a toshiba satellite 1800. Windows ME was crapped out. Windows 2000.. Cannot find a working VGA dr […]
Spent hours today arguing with a toshiba satellite 1800.
Windows ME was crapped out.
Windows 2000.. Cannot find a working VGA driver
Windows 98se.. VGA Drivers say they work but dont.
Now its the turn of XP.. But I hold little hope.Dont want to go crawling back to ME
Why does everyone hate ME so much?
Every time I've tried it, my experience has been positive. Has so many quality of life features that W98 doesn't have, with the added benefit of being 9x based. For a true WINDOWS 9x machine (not a combo DOS/Win9x setup) its great.
I haven't run ME in years, but I remember when I worked at a PC repair shop in the early 2000s we used to secretly really appreciate working on it, despite all the hate. The reason was that it had drivers for almost everything built right in, so unless you needed something more full-featured from a driver package you could just install the OS and almost everything just worked. Along with that clean installation came a very smooth a well running system... something that a lot of people never saw, because of what OEMs did to the poor machines. Much like Vista, I think the problem was that it was often put on terrible hardware and combined with too much 3rd party software.
When I think of a "Windows ME Computer", I think of those blobby little Compaq systems with colored plastic panels, insufficient RAM, slow CPUs, dirt-slow Quantum Bigfoot hard drives (among others) and tons of pre-installed bloatware, which was starting to become a thing at this point in time. Prior to this you usually got a big book of CDs of full-version software with your PC and most of it was installed but didn't have to run at startup... but it seems like ME came about right as things were shifting to "lets just install irritating trial versions of *everything* on this already barely adequate PC" . To top it all off, way more people were trying to do things online in the early 2000s and broadband was starting to be a thing, which meant that it was very likely that you were running ME if you were also a clueless new PC user that clicked on everything and downloaded viruses and adware.
So, I agree. ME was not a bad OS, it was just a victim of the times in which it was released.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.