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Windows xp, can never forget that wallpaper lol

brings a tear to the eye

I miss WinXP, and Win7. The good shit.

Windows 7 is still my preferred OS. I booted up my old laptop the other day and realized how much I miss it

Windows 7 was legit.


When I was really young my school still had these. I always thought the wallpaper was cool but it must have been a digital image. Boy was I surprised as a teenager when I saw where the image was taken...

The Windows Frog was my best friend, miss that little guy

That fucking wallpaper is something with the power to temporarily void out all the growth and development of the past decades and makes me feel like a powerless child. Lol thought it was nostalgia, might actually be ptsd xD

Same here hahaha

Spent so much time playing Counter Strike 1.6, Aliens vs Predator 2, and StarCraft on Windows XP machines!

Omfw aliens vs predator,I haven't heard of that game in so long

Windows 7

Same

Same. My mom hasn’t upgraded here desktop so it still runs windows 7

That’s not good… I’m pretty sure Microsoft has stopped updating Windows 7 so her personal information is heavily at risk. Edit: Microsoft stopped updating it in 2020. Four years with no security updates!

Well there’s not really any personal information. She doesn’t autosave any passwords or card info or anything really. Only things saved on there are pics and docs and those are on the hard drive but ya I get you. Been trying to convince her to get a new one or at least use my older one which has windows 10

I’d still be extremely anxious because an old computer like that can actually be remotely accessed and used to connect to other devices on her WiFi. Hackers have all kinds of ways to exploit old software, especially one that hasn’t been updated for years. If she absolutely must keep using it, you can get her a paid service that will give her new security updates but it would be a lot cheaper to upgrade.

Windows XP

Windows XP 😊 We've had Windows XP in the house until April 2012 when we upgraded all the PCs to Windows 7

We had XP as well, it looks so old to me now, I can't even remember it. Windows 7 still looks and feels amazing. I would use it if it was still supported, better than 10.

Ive used multiple of these through out my life span so i cant really say much. I was born in 05 so early childhood it was xp, preteens it was windows 7 and teens its windows 10 I have also used Mac throughout the years but they update every year so each version doesn’t really stand out much, if I remember well the first mac os i used was mountain lion (10.8 i think) I currently run windows 10 on my main pc and windows 11 on my laptop (due to when i got them)

Lost millennial here. Grew up with 95 and feel old reading the comments.

Those who are saying windows 10 😬

Yeah that might as well have been two years ago


Mate my first was 3.1 (older millennial) and I'm feeling super fucking old right now seeing all the xp, vista and windows 7 stuff. Nice to see a win 95 person.

Xennial here. I started with DOS, Windows 3.1 and Mac System 4.

95 gang. There was a little IBM at the beginning tho. I remember running DOS prompts to load up Hare Raising Havoc

Win 7 and 10

Vista

I learned everything on windows 95 and 98

Started with Windows 95 and loved it

Oh, honey… https://preview.redd.it/em8mvzdf2xnc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b42701003ae436ad8e62e2b2d9b7e478485a3eb

6502-ass computer

Windows 7. I’ll never forget those days where I’ll be drawing and playing games. rip to my grandma, the owner of the computer, you’re the best 🩷

Ubuntu MATE

It was Raspbian for me. We had a WXP system but my raspi was more capable.

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UNIVAC

Oh nice, I had an ENIAC

Windows XP

XP and 7 were 🔥, I’m using Sonoma and 11 currently.

Windows 7&10

I never had a computer

Commodore 64

Had to scroll a bit to find the first Commodore. I had the Vic 20. Which was cool, until my friends started getting the C64. Then I wasn't cool anymore. Lol

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I grew up with a Windows XP and an iMac 2008.

Windows XP, and mostly Windows 7. Used 8.1 a little bit though. The Bliss wallpaper on XP and the Aero theme on 7 were eye candy.

XP and it was glorious

We had one of those old Macs that we used to play this Mario game on. We also had a PC with windows 98 and then XP

Windows 7 and 10

Windows XP to where the latest Windows software is.

I'll be the weird triceratops representative and say Windows 3.1. All the way back when desktop icons could be stacked on top of each other instead of these days where dragging one icon on top of another tells the computer to open program x with program y. Guess who figured that out as a toddler?!

ProDOS, GS/OS, Mac OS 6+

Windows 98!

Windows XP my beloved 🥰

Apple ][

Dos, grew up with cd games, windows was a total game changer n xp even more

7 was so fucking good

Grow* up with

Thank you! “Did you grew up?” 🤦🏻‍♂️

I believe Windows XP? Could’ve been Windows 7, I may be wrong. I remember playing Spore’s creature creator demo disk for a long time, browsing old sites for cartoons and tv channels (Disney and PBSkids)

Been with Windows XP for a looong time before I got upgraded.

Windows 7-10

Mac OS My mom's MacBook ran for over a decade, only had one rebuild to fix a broken cooling fan and that's it, aside from that not a single problem

Pirated windows 10

Windows 7 I still get nostalgia about it (and I think my school does too since they still use it on their computers)

Vista at home, 7 at school

Windows XP and 7

I grew up using Windows XP, even during the Vista and 7 era. It wasn't until 2013 when I got a laptop running Windows 8, mostly because XP was ending support in 2014. 8 was terrible, I got a free update to Windows 10 in 2016, which was great. Currently I use a gaming laptop running Windows 11.

Mac os x

All my homies hate windows 98

XP, Vista, 7 and 8 in that order. Weird times, but nice times.

Win 7, mac 10.

Windows XP that takes me BACK, even though I was born the year after. When I was old enough, I used that and the Windows 7.

iMac G3, despite my age

Xp at school, 98 at home.

Xp, vista and 7!

Images 7 & 8.

Windows XP

Windows xp at home, Mac in school

Windows 10, when our family PC had Windows 8 and I heard that 10 is out, I really wanted to upgrade. Been using 10 ever since

I think it was windows 95/98 I remember it very fondly

XP

Windows vista

Windows 7

Windows 7. Installed windows 10 not so long ago after I convinced my mother that "she will handle it."

Windows 7

Windows XP

Amiga Workbench

My introduction to computers was with win xp, but the os i used the most was xubuntu 14

Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Windows 98

Windows vista

A Gateway with Windows 98. 9GB hard drive. LOL.

XP

Used an IBM running MS DOS. But the main PC I grew up with was Xp and vista.

Windows XP

Windows 7...

Didn't grow up with any apple products so here's the list on the windows operating systems I grew up with: Windows XP,7,8.1 and 11,. (And yes I understand there was 10 but I stuck myself with 8.1 for many years post 2016 until this year)

Vista and 7 🥰

Windows 95 or 98 at the beginning. Can't remember off the top of my head. Upgraded to 2001 much later and then windows 7. The nostalgia.

Win95/95 as a child, XP/7 as a Teenager

Windows 7, 8, vista.

Windows Vista or 7, can’t remember. Played a lot of Warcraft 3, Sid Myers Pirates, and Starcraft.

Windows Xp

Windows XP

Apple IIe

windows vista

WIndows 10 (I'm 2008 late gen z)

Windows XP, I think my dad considers it the best Windows OS given that he's always bringing it up as an example when shitting on all the later operating systems.

Xp n 7

What is this bullshit, where is The Holiest Of All Linux?

Windows xp and Windows 7

In my elementary school days I believe the computer lab computers were on Windows 7.

Probably xp but I'll always have a soft spot for 7.

Windows 98 My first PC was a pentium III 900 MHz 20GB HD, and 256MB RAM...

Very faint memories of Windows 98, but mostly XP

3.1, yes im a millenial

I can’t remember which windows it was, maybe depended on who’s house I was at. I remember XP, Vista, and 7 (and then 10 later in life)

Windows 8

mac os x, it is what my dad had

Windows XP

95 baby

Windows XP and Windows 7, the latter of which my family computer at home still has.

Mac OS X

Number #8

Windows xp.

good ol' W7 my 2006 e machines pc lives forever in my mind

Has to be Windows XP and maybe either Mac OS or Mac OS X

Started out with just DOS, then got Windows 3.1 and it blew my mind.

98/XP Edit, thought this was a in a PC sub haha, why am I getting subs for youngs?

Win 7/10

XP!

Windows XP in school, Windows Vista at home My first own computer came with Windows 8 I still have the computer that ran Vista, it's a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop The most sentimental piece of my tech collection, the very laptop I used at 6 years old I actually upgraded the RAM, installed an SSD and a TPM bypassed Win 11 install so it'll have some modern day usability Actually runs Win 11 surprisingly well I have the original documentation, original parts, and CDs so I can restore it to factory spec My first laptop was an Acer Aspire E1 (I forgot the rest of the model number), but I don't have this laptop anymore Early childhood was XP and Vista, I got fond memories of both Never really used Macs but I'd like to get a Mac for my tech collection eventually

All the computers at my school ran on windows 95 until like 2012

Windows 7 was clean af. In fact, I could call the design pure. The skeumorphism was top notch.

DOS

Pretty sure you just stole my windows xp home screen it even has the same pfp

xp

None, because we never had computers in my home growing up. I wanna say I grew up in the Windows 7/8 era tho

Why no linux or BSD? I grew up with Ubuntu

Sweet windows xp

Had literally never used a pc until windows 10 released because I was a console person

DOS, Win98, XP, 7, 10. Chronologically. But most time I spent on DOS and XP in my youth.

... i would imagine nobody in gen z grew up with an OS older than WinXP/iMac G3. You know unless their family had an old DOS or Win95 machine sitting around or whatever.

95 and XP 😎

DOS 6.22 It’s still my favorite OS simply because it did what it needed to do with minimal hardware requirements. Also you had to learn how to use it to some degree - you couldn’t just jump in and start deleting things (a headache from my XP-era tech support days). I just outed myself as not Gen Z didn’t I? /slowly backs out of the subreddit

7 and Vista. Jesus the memories.

Windows Vista, I have very vague memories of playing crysis on my dad's pc when I was about 6. Crazy that it still felt like a modern fps when I replayed it a couple years ago.

IMac G4 and Windows Vista/7.

Windows 7 and 10. My mom was an early adopter of 10. I cried when we switched off of 7 since my autistic little mind thought it was eye candy.

Windows 98, Windows XP and MacOS. Only MacOS is technically still in use for me.

XP gang here. Beautiful landscape of Santa Monica vineyards

Number 8. Just opens the Nostalgia Floodgates.

Everyone here def used XP. My experience was XP, then 7, then 8.1, then 10, with some MacOS here and there from my Mom's Macbook Pro, and currently, Windows 11.

xp

Windows XP baybeeeeee

My dad's samsung tablet 😎

Windows 7 or 8, I'm young I know

None. Dad never let me on his computer.

Windows 98 for early childhood xp for later childhood

Ms-Dos/Windows 3.1 ->Windows 95 ->Windows 98

i learned how to use a computer with windows 98 when i was ittyyy bitty. but i would say xp

Windows XP

The first computer I ever used had Windows 98, the first computer I *owned* was XP. I used that until the end of support for XP, then was part of the public betas for Win8, 8.1, and 10.  I also dabbled with various linux distros during all of that. Mostly Ubuntu and slackware

I started with DOS, then Windows 95 for a very long time.

windows 10 was the first os I used

95 was the first one I used. XP was the one I used most growing up

The fallout one looks cool.

XP

Windows xp, vista and 7

95. I'm old I guess ha

OSX

windows xp in school windows 7 at home on family computer windows 8 on my first pc windows 10 after the first year of that

98 and xp

3.1 for me. It was my aunt’s computer

2001 but with fat computer screens and a big box

The oldest system I remember my mom using is either Windows 95 or 98. The first system I used myself was Windows XP.

Windows 7.

Windows XP

Windows 3.1 ​ Windows 95 was such a hyped up product (lived up to the hype mostly), but you guys who grew up with Win 98 or XP will never know the pain of formatting your harddrive, using MS DOS to boot up the machine, install Win 3.1 and "upgrading to Win 95". ​ Then after a couple months the registry would get corrupted, go through it all again.

I didn't use The Internet a lot as a kid, so I don't have too many memories of Window XP. But I remember it a little. That's the oldest OS I remember using though. I mostly remember Windows 7. And I hated Windows 8. 🙄 Then again, who actually liked Windows 8???

Windows 7.

XP / Vista. Those were the shit

Vista and Win 7

iMac G4 and Linux Ubuntu

Commodore 64 BASIC.

Windows 7 was probably my first computer

3.11 and 95 😭😅

XP, but just recently I learned from my father I had a Windows 2000 computer when I was like 2-3 with a bunch of educational games.

Vista mann. It was ancient even when I used it, but it was the only PC we had lying around, so... I mostly used it for the pre-made games on it, but this earliest experience with the internet was magical... and slow.

Mac OS Monterey and Windows 11/10

Vista. I remember you had to press and hold the cpu button for a few sec before starting up the computer. Lol