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ferguess_kyesterday at 2:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is there a Windows 98 SP2 Env for Linux? The peak of personal (non-sysadmin) computing experience. There were fewer BSOD than Windows 95, and all DOS games still worked unlike Windows 2000/XP where most DOS games worked.


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forgotmypw17yesterday at 3:24 PM

Well, there's this, for XFCE:

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

sneakyesterday at 2:59 PM

My fond memory is of XP (with the child's toy color scheme changed to the Win2000 one) or simply Win2000 - it actually had preemptive multitasking and protected memory, unlike 95/89.

Everything you need, nothing you don't. The OS/DE stayed in its lane.