Hector Martin on Twitter: "2000 was the last Microsoft OS I had natively installed until Win 10, and the last one I used as a primary OS. It worked. Say what you will about Windows, but Win2k had a solid enough foundation and was lightweight enough to run on mediocre hardware smoothly.… https://t.co/lxQsIFqMQG"

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‏ @marcan42

2000 was the last Microsoft OS I had natively installed until Win 10, and the last one I used as a primary OS. It worked. Say what you will about Windows, but Win2k had a solid enough foundation and was lightweight enough to run on mediocre hardware smoothly.https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1272534719880708097 …

Benj Edwards @benjedwards

20 years ago, Microsoft released Windows 2000, an NT-oasis in a 98/Me hellscape. Prob the most solid Microsoft OS ever. I wrote about why it was great for How-To Geek: https://www.howtogeek.com/676095/remembering-windows-2000-microsofts-forgotten-masterpiece/ … Did you ever use Windows 2000? What are your memories of it?

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1. Thaddeus‏ @BlueCollarMage 15 Jun 2020
  
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  Yeah, it was why people hated XP, because it had such a high bar to live up to.
  
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1. Chloé Lemaire‏ @fgghjjkll 15 Jun 2020
  
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  Is 2000 usable in 2020?
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1. doragasu‏ @doragasu 15 Jun 2020
  
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  @benjedwards It worked, but I don't remember it running smoothly on mediocre hardware (of its time).
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1. Paweł Lasek‏ @pawel_lasek 16 Jun 2020
  
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  Back in I think 1999 we discussed how resource hungry it was, as it looked to require 128mb to reliably work compared to how 64 would have been roomy before.
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1. xorloser‏ @xorloser 16 Jun 2020
  
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  I still remember being amazed that you could leave your PC on for days and weeks without needing to reboot! That’s how stable it was.
  
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1. norry.‏ @OSSnorry 16 Jun 2020
  
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  Am I the only one who likes 98 SE?
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1. shif/tty/mike‏ @shifttymike 16 Jun 2020
  
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  SP3 was also the first Windows version to handle most USB thumb drives without needing a driver CD Machine I had at the time had 64MB RAM and XP was juuuust too much for it.
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