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  • No, I’m not.

    98, 98se, and ME are all 9x, pre NT.

    Windows 2000 was NT, but it was server and business focused, so I left it out as most people did not run 2000 on their personal computers. XP was the first consumer targeting Windows with NT, and it was a huge step up in security and stability over 9x, despite how awful it was.

    I’m not praising XP, I’m just refuting that 98 was great. It was hot garbage, and you could run a very secure and stable Linux distro back then, we stuck with windows back then because Wine wasn’t mature (Proton/bottles didn’t exist), the hardware wasn’t good enough for good emulation, and we needed binary compatibility because we wanted the windows exclusives. We never used Windows 98 because it was a good OS, we used it because it came with every computer you bought and all the software you wanted ran on it.


  • 98* was pure garbage. You could literally bypass the login screen on 98 because it had no real user account and tokens, just profiles for convenience. Driver support was awful, there was no memory protection so drivers constantly caused bsod. XP was the first time the consumer desktop got the NT foundation, meaning real user/session security, far better stability under load, and way fewer “one program crashed, so the OS is toast” moments.

    XP had its problems too, it’s still Windows afterall and Windows was always garbage. But 98 was awful.





  • Yeah, “as American as apple pie”, because America has always dressed fascist politics up as patriotism (the German American Bund’s 1939 “pro-Americanism” Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden drew 20,000+ people), then turned “extremist” labels into a weapon against the left (COINTELPRO was explicitly built to surveil/infiltrate/disrupt “subversive” movements), and when it was useful it literally gave Nazis a second life in the U.S. (Operation Paperclip brought 1,600+ German specialists into U.S. government work, including confirmed Nazi Party/SS/SA members, and U.S. intelligence also helped specific war criminals like Klaus Barbie evade justice and resettle).

    Trump is just the loudest salesman for a much older American habit: people fixate on the personality while swallowing the “terrorist” framing that expands the state’s permission slip to cage, crush, and kill. And it’s the same story with Israel: it constitutionally entrenches ethno-national supremacy through the 2018 Nation-State Law, empowers ministers like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich who openly talk and act in eliminationist terms, and America is unapologetically supportive of evening they do and it’s gleefully funding genocide they’re committing. America and Israel are fascist as fuck.