I remember one of the pranks I used to do: I would take a screenshot of the desktop, set it as wallpaper, and then I would hide the desktop icons, so when people used the computer after me, they would be clicking on nothing. I had so much fun back then playing Age of Empires when the teachers weren't looking, and downloading images to take back home in floppies. That's why XP-tan had large breasts, you know? They used to tell us that one computer was very powerful, reflecting XP's relatively high requirements at the time. Similarly, at school we had a computer lab where every machine ran on 98, except for one which had XP. In the late 90s and early 00s we had a family computer running Windows 98 whose sole user was me, because my mom had no use for it any more after my dad's thesis was complete (he didn't want to learn to use computers so my mom typed down all his documents). Though it was supposed to be unsupported, dangerous and broken, I've been using it on and off for a month (and as my daily driver for the last couple of days) and I'm not only having an okay time with it, but it turns out that almost everything I use computers for, I can do on XP. Today, I'm one of those 1%, as I'm using XP to write this article. Multiple factors that this could be attributed to come to mind, such as the high prices of new computers, unwillingness to 'upgrade' old computers that run just fine, poverty, or simply stubbornness. It's been more than 20 years since XP was released and yet it's still used by around 1% of computer users, rounding up. What other system has ever had the privilege of being supported for so long? When one considers all this, it's no surprise that people of a certain age would have fond memories of Windows XP, as weird as that might sound.

To convince oneself of this, it's easy to think about the games it can run natively: decidedly retro stuff such as DOS games and Age of Empires sixth generation gems such as the GTA 3D trilogy and Half Life 2 popular 2010s games such as Portal 2 and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance and stuff that was released literally last year such as Minecraft 1.16.

Windows XP is one of those things that lie right at the dividing line between retro and modern.

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