@fireborn Thanks for the post, most amusing. I think I would accept faster, wobble on the "more usable", and argue that the "more accessible" comes from the "more usable" for normal users. It is at least an arguable question whether accessibility itself has improved except, of course, when it comes to installation. Thanks for the interesting look at things.

@fireborn just set a custom DNS for adblocking, and you'll want to track down a 20 year Norton installer.

@fireborn Get ready to have your info stolen and your computer burned internally because there're viruses out there that can fry motherboards.

@fireborn ahahaha this sounds like a security nightmare, but I'm glad you're giving it a spin, even if 20 years late and well passed its prime. I suppose that may color your experience a bit, sure XP was worse in some aspects like set-up speech (but even that's debatable on some Linux distros) but overall in terms of the standard win32 experience a lot of apps were more polished than once UWP and all that junk came on the scene, IMHO.

@fireborn Wow. Haven't thought about Grizly Gulch in decades. Last time I saw that game was either in the late '90s or early 2000s where a student I was teaching purchased it. Shades of Doom was a lot of fun. I broke down and bought cheat codes for it, which made things a bit easier.

@DavidGoldfield @fireborn If going back to Windows XP is slumming it, I'll just shake my head in bemusement.

@fireborn You should try Windows 7, too.

@fireborn Re the original drivers for that netbook, I think the NC10 recovery images are available on archive.org. You should have given those a shot.

@fireborn I'll definitely be keeping track of this. Especially seeing as you fresh installed xp onto a system. That I have not done yet, and don't think I will in future. And hey, plus a million for grizley Gulch from Bavisoft. strait up, that was 1 of the very first audiogames that I ever played on xp. That and ten pin alley from PCS. I spent my entire 13th year on this earth glued to my system due to those games. Now as for accessabillity/useabillity between xp and 11? Apples to oranges, and the apple, that being xp, is way better, snappyer and faster. Seriously whenever I want a tech vacation, I just boot up my old dell laditude d820 and go to town, sans going online of course, I'm not that brave with my good ole systems haha. But truly, best of luck to you. You got this, you can do this :)

@fireborn tihs reminds us very strongly of all the Solaris 10 work we're doing, tbh. that netbook might run OpenSolaris actually

@Bruce @DavidGoldfield What else would you call it? It's hardly a joy to use in 2025

@fireborn @DavidGoldfield Go back to the Apple IIe, then we can talk.

@Tamasg Honestly so far... it's a struggle but it's fun.

@fireborn @Tamasg Are there even any virus programs that would still work on that? Spybot maybe?

@mcourcel @Tamasg There are a couple that I found but none that are good.

@Rooktallon So far none of this has happened.

@dhamlinmusic yeah, nextdns is what I've ended up using.