godamn hahahaha that took a laugh out of me

Np, have a good one

Yes it had very bad flaws, which didn’t discourage its wide range of use. One can say it’s not objectively good, but it’s subjectively not bad.

As I answered below, it was part of the “good guys” versions of windows, not receive popular backlash like windows ME, 8 and 11

Nothing of the sort, just said it based on the general usage, for all the flaws it had, It was, undeniably a very popular and used piece of software.

At the time of its peak, it was not universally bashed against like Windows ME, 8 or Vista. It was well received like windows 95, 7 and10

Maybe you had a specific experience with It, but XP was and is considered universally a good windows version, compared to its predecessors and the posterior Vista. Only losing to windows 7 when it launched.

Damn, I relate to that, back when I used to multi boot several systems on the same drive, windows always found a way to fuck up the boot loader.

Nowadays I leave them in separete drives, with debian and grub as the main option, windows don’t even have a chance to interfere since the bios boot the debian drive first.

Well, I work with devops, so I am well aware of some of the benefits and limitations of VMs, and I also tried proton. But I’ve run in tons of issues when running older games that I like, specially mmos like Ragnarock Online, Perfect World, Prison Tale. They have lots of compatibility issues with the VM, even with windows 10 for that matter, which is a little easier to circumvent.

About performance, things like baldurs gate 3 and cyberpunk 77 that I like, have like 20 to 25 less frames on proton, to add salt to injury bg3 crashes a lot.

Your second paragraph tells me you haven’t even tried because the first part is just checking a checkbox in the steam

Please don’t assume thinga on the internet, steam accounts for a quarter of my time spent on games.

I’m not here to say which one is better, just saying that bashing a completely fine option is, at least, dumb.

^(edit: typo)

I see some comments trashing dual boot, I really don’t understand why. I have really nice setup with Debian 12 and Windows 10. Boot pc, get to work on Linux, and other projects after. When I’m done and want to game a bit I switch to windows.

I have no need to setup funky VMs to bypass games made strictly for windows, and also don’t have performance limitations.

Just use the right tool for the right job folks.

Said the Swaheli in the Swaheli coast