For some reason it's bizarre to me that so many people seem to consider XP a "modern" operating system
It was released in 2001
There are middle schoolers younger than Windows XP
It was released after the turn of the millennium. During the rise of the internet as a major thing in its own right beyond just being a generic communication hub. It is of the current information era.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Maybe the age difference is a factor here
To me XP is that thing I used in middle and high school
Almost all my adult life, if you could call it that, has been spent with Windows 7 and later
(I got 7 almost as soon as it came out because its release happened to coincide with my laptop purchase)
Anything post-2000 seems "recent" or "modern" to me
This.
Also, I did get an XP computer for university, and that's when I started extensively using the computer by myself for tons of time. Maybe that's another thing.
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I switched over to Ubuntu (and later Xubuntu) after that
To me XP is that thing I used in middle and high school
Almost all my adult life, if you could call it that, has been spent with Windows 7 and later
(I got 7 almost as soon as it came out because its release happened to coincide with my laptop purchase)
Also, I did get an XP computer for university, and that's when I started extensively using the computer by myself for tons of time. Maybe that's another thing.