Yeah I ran 95/98/98SE fine for years...well fineish. That said I also supported MacOS 9 back in those days and Win95 was a stability GOD compared to that. Every film/tv/production house i had as a client ran flipping Mac's all running OS 9 which locked up and crapped itself constantly. Those things had the power on the keyboards, if they locked up you yanked the power cord...then checked how screwed up the filesystem was heh...then you got the damn CD and did the fresh install over what survived in the fs...
Please help.
First day of a 4 day "MS Teams" conference with ~200 participents, some of whom are seemingly computer illiterate and some believe it's a good idea not to mute their mic so we all get to hear their child whining or just so they can have a conversation with everyone.
Kill. Me. Now.
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Sorry man, I can't kill you because you're already dead and in Hell 
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No, hell was running out of money and tobacco a week before I get paid again (ÂŁ80 monthly income reduction at the same time tobacco price increased by 20%), this piling on top of that is something far, far worse.
Time to quit
Sure, but as with all addictions, quitting the addiction is incredibly difficult if the underlying cause of stress that drives the addiction isn't addressed first.
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What you thought I meant quit smoking, I meant quit Teams...then you can quit Smoking
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Thatâs too bad. I was relating actual experience - and it was not unusual for MS to provide what Win98 SE was SUPPOSED to be in the next release - continuing a pattern that held over time. (98 was what 95 was supposed to be, previously Win 3.1(1) was what Win 30 was supposed to be etc etc). I really suspect that the OS equivalent of 'garbage collection" was completely messed up, or couldnât handle programs with memory leaks - and they didnât âfix itâ for some unknown reason. With frequent application of the RAM reclaimer, however, it was easily the best functioning Windows to that time. Think of it - they still hadnât foisted the registry on their unsuspecting users, and everything else had been âpolishedâ significantlyâŚ
As for the hardware - it was AMD⌠the first of the 1Ghz CPUs around - I think it was called the Thunderbird or some such in the Athlon universe - which worked well with sufficient memory resources (built it myself, so loaded it with Kingston (good at the time) RAM to the max.
Although I had Linux (TAMU) on another machine at the time, I didnât swap over until the EULA of XP drove me there by 2006.
Nah dude win2000 was the best windows of that time 
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No, ME was the âbring in a bunch of new, insufficiently developed stuffâ release, which DID continue the cycle of crap - good - crap - good.
You may have liked ME, but the vast majority of people didnât and the developers didnât much like it either (except Ballmer, as it was his project).
Yeah it was universally hated. OEM's like myself to the big AHoles like Dell/HP hated it because the support costs were insane...on the 3 machines they shipped with it heh. The driver framework they touted as being improved for USB and next gen AGP/GPU's etc over 98 was unfinished and it was just a tissue paper OS. I remember just trying to get a game pad to work was hell. Most the times everything involved manually adding Win98 drivers because the ME ones either wouldn't install or just didn't work if they did. This is why I went from 98 to 2000 (NT). I eventually went to XP once Pro was available i.e. no remote kill switch.
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In retrospect, things are never as good as they used to be. (he said, sardonically)
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The addiction is the underlying cause. At least it appears so from the perspective of 36 days tobacco-free. But check back with me in another month. Two months without and suddenly my ex-wife went wacko. Same with my brother. Their solution was to grab a pack and return to mental sanity.
You mean financial slavery
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NT was awesome for a brief while, from about 3.5 up.
Plus it had a really cool looking black Windows logo. (Oooh, pretty, shiny!)
Heh. For me it was just about how solid it was. 98 was OK but for studio work it still left a lot to be desired. 2000 really brought that server like solidity. It's kinda funny ripping on ME. I remember when they announced 2000 they swore no direct X, no "common" peripheral supports but it all worked. Meanwhile you'd spend half a day trying to butcher 98 printer drivers on an ME install to finally get it to work...for an hour before the whole machine locked up and corrupted half the system dll's.
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No, it's the person's attempt to address or distract from some problem in their life they're unwilling or unable to address which has grown to become more of a problem than a help.
If there's a direct physically addictive property, that worsens the effect obviously.
I agree. In short, I could always turn to cigarettes when the shit hit the fan. First thing I'd ever reach for. I've already been "tested" once during the past few days, but urges, thought, feelings--they're all transitory--only seem to last a matter of seconds.
The decision was all-important.
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Indeed. Thatâs my problem at the moment, this wasnât my decision, Iâm just left clucking because my habitâs been disturbed AND brainâs demanding shizz.
Last time I had the vape, this time I have my vape but barely any liquid 
E2A: @mandog Iâm âa wokeâ and your mate just gave the keys to the forum. I think heâs been working against you behind your back.
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Yet, itâs the shitz when the decision is taken out of your hands. When youâre in better shape and wanna make a go of it, Iâm finding a CBD pen calms my ass right down. I reach for it when I need to have something in my hand.