No, it was when I got out my old high school computer to mess around with it and go "oh yeah" for a little bit. That was the last time I shut down Windows XP.
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For my main comp this was actually from Vista RC something - I had enough RAM & it didn't give me any compatibility issues (like Millennium before XP on my gaming rig, bcs manufacturer sux at drivers).
I never really liked XP ... I know, Im sorry!!
I loved that it brought gaming to NT-ish stability tho.
(Then again Windows classic theme rullz. Tho the og Aero was nice at the time.)
One day you turned off a Linux Distro for the last time and didn't even notice
If you use Arch or Nix, every day is that last day. One day you disembarked the Ship of Theseus for the last time and didn't even notice.
Jokes on you, my distro hopping goes full circle every couple of months
I don’t ever turn off my Linux machines. They turn off when the power goes out, and that’s about it.
I nearly installed WinXP on an old piece of shit all-in-one computer (old celeron, 2gb ram, very slow hdd), but the CPU was too new to be supported. Installed Mint instead.
I did it with joy, because I used it for a few days to implement and test an SMBv3 to v1 Bridge (fuck Trumpf for using embedded XP and using SMB for pulling blueprints, forcing the use of SMBv1), and it (as well as the Windows Server) was hell compared to Pop I was using at the time.
Bold assumption
reminds of the poor xp vms ;). I still have disk images somewhere I believe.
(never used xp on a hardware personally though)
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We're not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
Was sometime in January 2009, switched to Linux.
So true...
I just did a win xp build the other day. I had to make a floppy disk for sata drivers because xp hates installing to sata. Fortunately MSI still has the drivers on their website. I'm still looking for a decent and cheap agp GPU to go along with it.
Has not happened yet. I keep a copy around in a VM for old games.
It's probably been a few months for me. If I could remember where I put that laptop.