To be fair Microsoft was always shitware. I don’t remember a time when using a Windows machine just worked, didn’t take up gigabytes of space, didn’t crash, and didn’t get messed up by simply using it requiring a yearly or semi-yearly reinstall.
replyI remember when Windows didn't take gigabytes of space because there wasn't gigabytes of space, and it was still shitware.
replyWindows in the 95-XP era wasn't exactly high-quality software, but it was genuine technical innovation, doing what you otherwise couldn't do.
replyNothing since then. Thats a long 30 years.
replyWindows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks.
replyTo be fair, I had stretches of 2K, XP, 7 and 10 working acceptably.
These eras of Windows had their own dark patterns that were incredibly anti-consumer. No one's lives were improved because they installed the Ask Jeeves toolbar, but people were asked to install it millions and millions of times.
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replyMicrosoft BASIC was a pretty decent interpreter, I wouldn't call it "shitware", so there you go?
replyI don't remember DOS 6.22 blue screening on me. Maybe it wasn't so bad.
replyI would have preferred a Forth on my C64 seriously. But no, we were stuck with this "38911 bytes free" crap.
replyWhen .INF was all you needed (and some .cat / sys)!
More recently, I found out that approach can sometimes lead to missing features when using the hardware. Even though the driver is installed correctly. I was probably missing something but didn't dig deeper into it.
reply7zip will do the trick for a lot of self extractors.
replyThese days, even a window gets updates.
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