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1. gizajob · 1791037920 · focus · HN ↗

   > The concept of "filesystem" is an increasingly weak concept.

   Yeah because Apple has broken that idea over and over and over. The anti-unix unix.

   1. someonebaggy · 1791039017 · focus · HN ↗

      It's nothing to do with evil old Apple and everything to do with phones being hard to type on, and search becoming better.

      1. goalieca · 1791041701 · focus · HN ↗

         I remember it like this. Windows XP and earlier was a horrible era for stability and security and the world was overall less connected. Phones were always on and always connected. The iPhone was honestly the first stable internet device, that didn't sleep or pause, and the first internet device many people had that wasn't infected by viruses.

         1. dpark · 1791043748 · focus · HN ↗

            > Windows XP and earlier was a horrible era for stability and security

            Huh? Windows XP was the first NT-based release for home users. It was a milestone in stability.

            1. kergonath · 1791048016 · focus · HN ↗

               It was more stable after the SP2, but initially it was undermined by buggy drivers and rampant malware, NT kernel or not. True, it was better than ME…

               What most people remember of XP now is what it became after a couple of years of fixes and improvements, and the contrast with Vista.

               1. dpark · 1791049090 · focus · HN ↗

                  It was hailed for its improvements in stability from the time it was released. My recollection was that it was a massive improvement over 98/ME lineage. It was mostly a wash vs Windows 2000.

                  Yes, it became more stable with the service packs, but it was a significantly more stable OS out of the gates than anything consumer users had been getting.

                  Rampant malware was a separate (and very significant) issue.

                  1. kergonath · 1791114808 · focus · HN ↗

                     > My recollection was that it was a massive improvement over 98/ME lineage.

                     That much is true.

                     > It was mostly a wash vs Windows 2000.

                     No, not really. They did some empirical testing at the university I went to and the conclusion was that they kept the Windows boxes on 2k almost until Vista.

                     1. dpark · 1791132249 · focus · HN ↗

                        My university switched pretty quickly. But I do not know how empirical that decision was. Anecdotally all of my friends made the switch from 2k and were fine with XP. But again, anecdote. Your university apparently found that 2k was meaningfully more stable for them.

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