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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

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304 points mooreds | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 19:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.43s | source
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reddalo ◴[17 Nov 24 21:02 UTC] No.42167210[source]▶
Don't modern versions of Windows do the same? For example, I clearly remember that the Windows 10 installer first launches a Windows 7-like environment.
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zokier ◴[17 Nov 24 22:01 UTC] No.42167711[source]▶
Aren't all modern (>xp) windowses just NT6 under the hood? Is there such clear delineation between 7 and 10 for example?
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runjake ◴[17 Nov 24 22:44 UTC] No.42168048[source]▶
There have been iterative substantial improvements to the NT architecture since Windows 2000 and later with Vista (where the UAC model started, rather poorly).
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1. af3d ◴[18 Nov 24 03:17 UTC] No.42169440[source]▶
Really? Windows2000 (which was based on NT) hit the sweet spot for me. Anything earlier than that seemed too buggy, and from there onward just seemed to devolve into a bloated mess of unrequested "features". (The very reason why I have been using Linux for 20+ years now as a matter of fact.) But yeah to be completely fair I suppose not everything they have produced since has been crap. There have been some innovations here and there...
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2. pjmlp ◴[18 Nov 24 05:25 UTC] No.42169932[source]▶
Linux has enough unrequested features as well, and the distributions are a fragmentation mess.

20 years ago, we thought eventually either GNOME or KDE would win, instead became even more fragmented, across all layers.