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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
CelicaGT The only thing that really bugs me about 11 is all the extra clicks to do what used to be one, maybe two. UI regression. The rest is…fine. Well, there's also the "Where'd that setting go?" trivia each time I need to change something core. It's funny how relevant the old Control Panel still is. Reply
jmcgaw Vecuccio said: The sky in the original was so obviously fiddled with in Photoshop / Paintshop Pro. The photographer must think people were born yesterday. And if it was 'fiddled with' is it less useful and/or attractive? How many images today are not 'fiddled with' if not totally made up. I have a version of that wallpaper on my main machines. Why? Because it is a pleasant image. Reply
marcdmx "the hill looking almost identical"? are you blind?! LOL. This looks nowhere near. I mean, the curvature is there and that's about it. I am also almost identically looking to actor Brad Pitt, because I have head, beard and eyes. Reply
elfenix While the hill is in Sonoma county, it's not usually covered on grape vines (Sonoma is full of cattle ranching) and it's not in the town of Napa, which is in Napa county (the town of Sonoma is closer). Napa isn't far because the counties are next to each other. Reply
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