Win95 was built for a different era, with different — simpler and much, much slower — standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, PCs in 1995 typically came with 4-8 MB (not GB!) of RAM, a single-core 66MHz (not GHz) CPU, dial-up Internet connections, CD-ROM programming, and graphics with 256 colors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would be incredibly frustrating to work with that kind of hardware today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t have a copy of Win95 handy, but I do have Win98. Here it is, fired up in a virtual machine running on my Win10 laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But on the hardware of its day, Win95 was pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flipping it around: Win10 would be horrible in 1995. There was nothing available to run it — not even close! Many of the standards in today’s off-the-shelf PCs — standards Win10 is built around — didn’t even exist in 1995! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So there’s really no good way to compare the two as to “likability.” Each is\/was well-suited to its specific era and environment; neither would do well in the other’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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