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came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! (midwest.social)

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can’t say i remember much from using winME. maybe i blocked it out, haha.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Windows ME they decided to include the WinNT driver model (can't remember what it's called) alongside the legacy VXD drivers. It's actually quite similar to some of the complaints when Windows Vista did it again.

The problem was shit/rushed driver support. If you built a new PC with well supported hardware, or just got lucky, ME wasn't any less stable than 98SE in my opinion.

Of course the nuance is lost to time, all anyone remembers is "ME bad."