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Eh. Win 2000 was awesome compared to Win 98. Admittedly 98 was better than 95, and both ME and 8 sucked.

But by the time you got to about 2010-2015, then the optimal solution was to leave Windows and go to Linux.

I do know in the late 90's a lot of people were using Windows NT around campus ( I was in college) but I never really understood the differences.  I vaguely understand that NT was supposed to be for networking and more corporate environments.  I did use NT some in that time, but mostly at school.  As I recall, it had a different file system, but I really don't know what the differences were.  

Astonishingly, I've never used Linux, but I've always wanted to try.  

If you're old enough to have been computing in the command-line era of MS-DOS, Linux isn't anything crazy.

The big knock on Linux a while ago is that it wasn't "user-friendly" meaning that it didn't have simple and easy graphical ways to configure various settings/etc. It's gotten MUCH better for that. But if something isn't available via a GUI, anyone who has experience using the command line can pretty much do whatever you need that way.

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1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200

1890 Edison Lab records the first surviving motion picture, "Monkeyshines No. 1," shot by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson and William Heise [date disputed between June 1889 and November 21–27, 1890]

1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0

1905 Physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?" His general theory of relativity introduces the equation E = mc²

1917 Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer. He was exiled from the Soviet Union for a period and only returned in 1932 after being invited back personally by Joseph Stalin. Hmm so Uncle Joe thought Vlad a bag guy

1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die

1931 Horror film "Frankenstein" is released, starring Boris Karloff as the monster, directed by James Whale and based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein

1937 Australian endurance athlete Tom Morris sets a world record by skipping rope 22,806 times in a single session

1939 Heinrich Himmler announced that the United Kingdom was responsible for the 8 Nov 1939 attempt on Adolf Hitler's life. Two British agents were kidnapped in the Netherlands several days prior, who were blamed for plotting the attack. The attack, however, was actually planned by the Germans as means to raise Hitler's standing within Germany.

1945 The Auto Workers Union closed 100 General Motors factories in the United States. ww2dbase

1946 Harry Truman becomes the first US president to travel in a submerged sub

1949 Bill Veeck sells MLB Cleveland Indians for $22 million, to fund his divorce settlement (Veeck as in Wreck)

1952 The first US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) is introduced

1961 "La Ronde," the first revolving restaurant in the US, designed by architect John Graham Jr., opens atop the 23-floor Ala Moana Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii

1964 The Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, the world's longest at the time

1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet (8,534,4 meters)

1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period

1976 Sports action film "Rocky," directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)

1980 TV show "Dallas" episode "Who Done It" reveals 'Who Shot J.R.?', gets a then record 53.3 rating (over 83 million viewers, 76% of television watchers) in the US

1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights is signed by US President George H. W. Bush

2019 Elon Musk launches Tesla's electric Cybertruck with shatterproof windows that, when demonstrated on stage, shatter - that's showing them Elon

2024 Controversial artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan sells for $6.2 million at auction in New York; new owner Justin Sun says he will eat it

Eh. Win 2000 was awesome compared to Win 98. Admittedly 98 was better than 95, and both ME and 8 sucked.

But by the time you got to about 2010-2015, then the optimal solution was to leave Windows and go to Linux.

I liked Windows XP, probably my fave.  I also liked 7, never used 8, and then 10 and 11 have been good too.

I have to say, I didn't mind Vista either because I personally never had any problems with it, though I understand a lot of people did.  And it was definitely bloated.  But I never had programs lag or crash...don't know how/why I escaped the tragedies everybody else dealt with.  But I used Vista from 2009 to 2018 on my primary laptop with no problems. 

Been using the Linux Mint distro on my old/spare machines since 2009, though I never get much time with them because shortly after I load it, whatever machine I'm using goes kaput.  The mother board craps out or the screen's back light dies, or something. 

On this day in 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated.

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was hastily sworn in as president two hours and eight minutes later aboard Air Force One.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The People's Republic of China Joins the UN Security Council (1971)
The 1949 Communist takeover of mainland China created the People's Republic of China (PRC). The former government, known as the Republic of China (ROC), retained control only of Taiwan and outlying islands. However, for the next 22 years, the ROC also held onto its seat in the UN, representing the mainland it no longer controlled. UN Resolution 2758 finally transferred China's seat to representatives of the PRC.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Lee Harvey Oswald Murdered by Jack Ruby on Live Television (1963)
Hours after US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a Dallas parade, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested. After two days of interrogations, Oswald was being led through the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters to be transferred to a county jail when Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and shot him. Millions of people saw the incident on live television. Despite attempts to link Ruby to some conspiracy, he appears to have acted alone.