30 years later, the iconic ‘Bliss’ green hill from Windows XP is still thriving — lucky passerby captures the hill looking almost identical to the 1996 photogra

30 years later, the iconic 'Bliss' green hill from Windows XP is still thriving — lucky passerby captures the hill looking almost identical to the 1996 photogra

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Vecuccio The sky in the original was so obviously fiddled with in Photoshop / Paintshop Pro. The photographer must think people were born yesterday. Reply

bigdragon Know what would be a dream come true? A new Windows XP. Something fast, responsive, lightweight, out of your way, and cohesive. I really do think Windows XP Media Center Edition was the best OS Microsoft ever made (Windows 10 Creators Update being my second favorite). Windows 11 continues to be absolutely insufferable to use. Reply

CelicaGT bigdragon said: Know what would be a dream come true? A new Windows XP. Something fast, responsive, lightweight, out of your way, and cohesive. I really do think Windows XP Media Center Edition was the best OS Microsoft ever made (Windows 10 Creators Update being my second favorite). Windows 11 continues to be absolutely insufferable to use. I remember wiping Win98 from the HDD on my overclocked to 1Ghz AMD Duron 800 rig to install XP on day one of its release. It was beautiful. I remember leaving that rig running for days, just because suddenly I could. The Bliss wallpaper is still one of the most iconic images in computing, I have it up on one of my Linux installs,. Partially out of spite to be honest. Reply

John Kiser bigdragon said: Know what would be a dream come true? A new Windows XP. Something fast, responsive, lightweight, out of your way, and cohesive. I really do think Windows XP Media Center Edition was the best OS Microsoft ever made (Windows 10 Creators Update being my second favorite). Windows 11 continues to be absolutely insufferable to use. Ahh more whining about 11. 11 is fine. Insufferable really? What about it in your own words is actually Insufferable. You can easily turn off ads. The nonsensical whining early on of new telemetry data tied to a voice assistant that all of them have was nauseating. And now the anti-ai people are after them Reply

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