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What's something you wish would "come back" but you feel like you're the only one that cares? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Couple of things for me.

One is tiny croutons. I don't see them anywhere anymore. They taste the same but it's kind of a pain sometimes to keep the big ones on your fork. The small ones were a little more satisfying to snack on too.

Second is Blue Nehi. Never met anyone else that's tried or heard of it. Damn it was good though. Big Blue is kinda similar but those always taste under carbonated.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Windows 7. no ads, no sudden candy crush, no cloud data stealing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Windows 7 business philosophy but with modern windows features would be great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For me it's Vista. I've always felt like I'm the only person who actually unironically liked that thing. It just looked so good, and for my computer at the time at least, it also worked so good (I got a new one specifically for Vista anyway, so I didn't have the complaints most people had).

7 felt like it improved in some areas (performance on weaker hardware, lack of bloat, better customisability, and so on) while in contrast it was basically nerfed in other areas (more generic design language, worse taskbar by default, too few new features, etc). It took me a short while before it would end up growing on me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Vista was FULL of security issues though. I did PC support in that era and I kept going to one house in particular because they would pick up some crazy virus / Spyware from thier kid visiting sketchy porn sites. Didn't matter what I did or how I locked it down, or what AV I installed he would manage to get it reinfected. After the 8th time or so I just made them buy a XP license and told them they need to have a hard talk with thier kid about all the sites he was visiting. Once I had XP installed and appropriate AV, it stopped being an issue.

Edit: Whoops, nevermind it was Windows ME. Carry on with your Vista love (though I'm still not sure why you loved it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, and have a nice day (actually it's night time where I live, so... have a nice night)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

A lot of people misremember windows Vista sucking ass when actually it was ol' Mistake Edition.