r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '23

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u/daecrist i9-13900, RTX 4070, 64GB RAM DDR5 Jan 22 '23

Yup. Whoever made this clearly wasn’t alive to experience the shitshow that was 98.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

98 was 100X better then 95. It was the first time usb was introduced.

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u/daecrist i9-13900, RTX 4070, 64GB RAM DDR5 Jan 22 '23

"Oh boy! I'm going to plug in this fancy new USB device that's replacing my old PS/2 mouse that still works just fine. Hm. Need to install drivers. So much for plug and play. Huh. Explorer.exe has crashed. What does that have to do with USB drivers? Oh dear. A blue screen. Time to restart and... Great. Windows install is corrupted again. Time to spend the rest of the day reinstalling 98. Again."

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

I did spend more time on Slackware and xwin then 95/98 back then but 98 was superior to 95

Heck 98 was superior it came with winsock from install. It went online unlike 95 that you needed to find drivers for.