C0deHunter wrote on 2020-05-12, 06:42:Its like a stripped down version of Windows 2000 Pro (GUI), fused with Windows 98SE features! I remember back in the day I heard […]
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Its like a stripped down version of Windows 2000 Pro (GUI), fused with Windows 98SE features! I remember back in the day I heard about it's *instability*, but to be honest it has been playing on my real retro system (my sig) for a month, and I LOVE it!
p.s. If I could only get the START menu *label (side-ways) to display the "Windows Millennium
Edition text"
My Windows ME Start menu: It does not say Windows ME Millenuim Edition!
Just my two cents: I had a Win98SE and an XP build. I wanted a 1.4 Ghz Tualatin, and it could ease out the transition between those two PC's, but lacked true reasons to invest in finding a motherboard and acquiring it along with the Tualatin itself and the more specific than usual cooler for it. I decided to take a chance on Win ME and proceeded to make the pc on that premise. Having used it for half a year now, it makes the transition between those periods/builds perfect in my view.
I certainly believe the complaints at the time from people who used it as a main pc, not just for gaming and sporadic use as a retro pc with the advantage of hindsight in every way. Maybe I was lucky in my hardware/drivers combination, but honestly everything runs smoothly and reliably and more than that, Windows Millennium just totally captures the atmosphere of that particular time, whether in the "new features", its ambiance and optimism, I just love how it looks and feels.
As a transition build with software only from its time period, it shares or overlaps with both the 98SE and XP PC's in some instances but to be honest when that's the case I won't run that software on anything other than ME, that's how happy I am. What impressed me the most is the sensation of reliability and sturdiness that my (although) stable Win98SE just isn't capable of providing (i.e. various occurrences of games that were installed/confirmed running that were used many times since, and stop running later even though nothing was installed/updated since then as the build was finished).