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minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoI used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoStability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.” I wish they had kept with that into later versions. Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D
I used Win ME throughout the entire XP lifespan. The BSODs only made me resilient that whatever bullshit microsoft could come up with.
Stability aside, I loved ME’s personalization stuff, all the themes and sounds and icons and everything they included out of the box to encourage you to make it feel like “yours.”
I wish they had kept with that into later versions.
Thankfully KDE fills that void for me now. :D