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Muta: blurs out filling in the Win98 license key Also Muta: brings up a text document which shows all the Windows license keys uncensored, including Win98
I believe he doesnt want to self incriminate by documenting entering a generated i.e. not paid for key. Just good practice. He doesnt care if you see the generated key elsewhere. Blurring the action leaves him with a level of plausible deniability against the key he entered being generated.
Yeah. I literally did a full XP reskin of my Windows 10 laptop, including visuals, the taskbar and start menu, and all the sounds, and I like it so much more than default Windows 10's look (and I find the start menu much more useful, I actually use it now). I even got old apps including 3D Pinball and Windows Movie Maker!
I like how mutahar says that microsoft will eventually kill 32 bit support down the line and then like a month later windows 11 was announced to have killed 32 bit support
XP was my first OS. The feature I remember the most was Microsoft Sam, the microsoft text to speech. Anyone who was on the internet at the time will remember how much of a starring role Microsoft sam had in many internet videos.
@@SevenHunnid thats cool but Ive never found a weedtuber through the comments. Do some challenge vids and cool discussion topics to get attention not asking 4 it in comments. Nobody respects that bro. It'd be cool though if u started a series on how you're taking steps towards your own dispo, maybe something like "Dispo Dream" for the series name and make the titles like "insert episode title/topic | DISPO DREAM #(x) "
actually now windows 11 is the last microsoft os since they have announced windows 11 but it's not now realesed but you cant get windows 11 by downloading on the internet it you need to go get the insider build of windows but it hes not set by default so you need to go to the settings then click i think insider build then change it to insider build then click i think update to insider build or something then you will get windows 11
as a poor kid windows 8.1 ran on literally anything and upgrading to windows 10 nearly bricked my 4gb ram laptop, other than that I can see why you dislike it
the good thing is that you can't brick computers since you can just reinstall, you can only brick if you mess / update bios but never by reinstalling an os with right drivers
This. Windows 8.1 is surprisingly lightweight and efficient, almost as much as Windows 7. I'm using a shitty prebuilt from 2007 and it runs pretty well. I would run 7 but I use 2 monitors and 8.1 has better support for multi-monitor setups.
I put windows 10 on a 2gb laptop that had came with Vista and it ran fine no sound from speakers was the only prob other than that it ran better than vista
I never watch videos longer than 5 minutes but Muta’s narration made me watch this whole thing. As an 80s kid I have lived through and used all of these and Muta covered every talking point to a T. Brilliant research and even more amazing delivery Muta. You are a gem.
Windows Vista was my childhood. We had 2 Computer (one Desktop with XP and one Laptop with VIsta). We actually used the Laptop the most. We in fact still have the laptop. The Display isn't working anymore, but with an external Monitor, it is good to go.
I really wish that Microsoft gave us themes on Windows 10 that were stylized to older versions of windows as part of its 35th year anniversary. It would be really cool to use Windows 7 theming or at least aero glass in Windows 10 (officially)
Listen, I don't want the annoying trauma of using Windows 7 Professional in Windows 10 with not having any support since January 2018 with it not even being able to boot on or have literally ONE internet tab open without severe crashing issues.
22:50 I actually did this exact process not long ago for a Windows 10 VM. For some reason Windows 10 decided it needed to place the recovery partition directly to the right of the C partition when it was installed, so even if you expand the hard drive Windows 10's built in partition manager could not actually expand the C partition. Now, once I actually fixed and expanded the partitions with GParted Windows 10 decided that the hard drive was corrupted and that it really wanted to do a disk check every time I started the VM, but if I ever forgot to interrupt that and make it just boot up then the disk checker would completely brick my VM (luckily I had made a backup before making this discovery). I never was able to find a fix for that either, so thanks Microsoft! I just love that you took care to include tools in Windows that will automatically brick my PC!
I love DOS. I remember playing heroes of might and magic alongside a Winnie the Pooh game, and my dad had to use the command line to boot anything for me. Dude this whole process is a trip down memory lane, but you can still connect a commodore64 to the internet for messageboards that 3 people still use if you really wanted to.
XP is painful to use on less than 512mb, I tried it back in the day with 384mb on a Pentium 3 system and had to go back to Windows 2000. A co worker got it running on a P4 system with 256mb of Rambus though. That being said most XP systems won't get to 4GB of ram due to hardware limits and the OS maxing at 3.5GB unless you are running XP 64 bit edition on an AMD Athlon 64bit or newer cpu.
Great trip down memory lane. Gave me flashbacks to playing Transport Tycoon and Command & Conquer on MS-DOS; making new folders and changing icons on 3.11 and feeling like a pro; having my mind blown when I first saw 95's interface; taking my first steps on the internet on 98; running ME on my first personally owned system; having my mind blown (again) by XP's interface, trying out and talking about Longhorn (Vista) with my friends when it leaked (again, feeling like a pro), running 7 for too long because of 8's "Metro" interface and finally upgrading to 8.1/10 because everyone dropped support for 7. Fun times. Thank you very much, Muta. I have to bitch about few things though: 5:00 This low? Those specs are pretty damn high. 2GB max partition size is some serious 80's futureproofing. Consumer level hardware from the late 80's would've been a 5-20MB HDD, 1-4MB RAM, a 10-30Mhz CPU and a sound card if you could afford one. 27:00 I get the point and I remember there being a lot of drama when the first dual core CPU's got introduced, but cores and threads aren't the same thing. Single cores ran multiple threads (Intel called it Hyperthreading I believe).
@@Ganerrr no he only had to expand his hard drive partition and change the file system around XP to Vista (off camera) but no hard drive transfer as he was using a windows 98 pc from that period, which had plenty of hard drive space for Vista and 7 to run. You can just watch the full video- ruclips.net/video/O39gqrLJbMc/видео.html
The fact that he knew what he was doing enough to do this tells me he could've fixed the aspect ratio in the ad read if he wanted to and just couldn't be fucked, which is an absolute power move
It fits him so well, it's like he has had intense years of elite martial arts training and is now elite fighter muta only that it was linux and other OS's instead
he had keys but you can't prove he used them. muta's brain isn't smooth, it's been folded over 1 million times and can cut through steel like butter. or ghee, as it were.
This was really fun to watch - a great trip down memory lane! My life with my own PCs went from Win3.11 all the way through Win10 (although I started with an Apple IIc, and I got to use a Win2.0 machine at my neighbour’s house), and honestly Win98, 2000, and XP still are my favourites. 98 is the most stable OS I’ve experienced in my life, and it had amazing functionality for the era. I miss DOS, now. A lot. Back then, I actually knew how to *use* my computer and play with the bios/drivers, some simple programming, and having fun with my charming 14.4 dial up modem, as opposed to my being almost completely lost when it comes to my current PC laptop. I had a ME machine my sophomore year of college, and it had some cool features, but it wasn’t ... stable ... in my experience with it, and I actually upgraded it to 2000 by the end of the school year. Windows NT was badass, though. I got to use it for work back then, and I started doing all my school stuff at work until I got 2000 because ME was gawdawful garbage. Vista wasn’t TERRIBLE, but I did revert to XP after a few months of Vista, even though I had it on a pretty damn overpowered, high end PC with a NVIDIA graphics card. I just didn’t like the UI, honestly. It ran well and was stable, unlike ME. I’m actually still running XP on my desktop - the same one that was made to be a Vista machine - and it’s been a LOT of work to keep such an old machine running and compatible with necessary peripherals, but it’s worth it. I don’t care that it’s not supported. It still does what I need it to do. Obviously, I didn’t really care for 7, 8, or 10. It feels odd for someone who started learning simple programming on an Apple IIc in kindergarten in 1986-1987 and who even built both her own 3.11 and Win95 machines in middle and high school, to be turning into a Luddite. And I have kept up with the new OSes as they’ve come out, but I just don’t like any OS after XP, although my complaints are mostly UI issues, as opposed to functionality or stability issues. Regardless, this video was really well done and well researched since you’re too young to remember the pre Win98 era very well! Thanks for the journey back into my childhood!
"Yeah that was perfect for the people who were on the Surface Tablet" As an owner of a Surface Tablet, no, it was dreadful. You were better off installing Windows 7 on the damn tablet, it was much more stable, much better supported by touchscreen and digitiser drivers, and if you wanted to hook the tablet up to a second screen and pretend it's a desktop PC, like many of us did when not on the road, you NEEDED windows 7 because you lost the ability to use the touchscreen the second you plugged in that HDMI cable. Windows 10's optional "tablet mode" is the only reason Surface Tablets still live on to this day.
It would be better for everyone if they made desktop appropriate Windows operating systems again and stop trying to make them look like tablet interfaces!
I remember being about 6 years old (2005 -2006) and going with my parents to staples or some place and buy a 2 ton chunker of a tower that ran Vista I believe. I stayed on New grounds, max games, armor games, etc lmao
Honestly, I loved 8´s start screen. Whenever I was browsing anything and a parent walked by I could quickly press the windows key to switch to the start screen and they wouldn´t know I was watching the fabled "VIOLENT CONTENT" they didn't want me to watch.
@@kkadam2636 Surely you could, right ? Just change the CPU and other virtual components inside a VMware and progressively go up. Not an expert tho don't quote me on that
Awesome video, but it wasn't what I expected from the title. Not exactly sure what I expected from the title, but that was a great concept for a video, seeing if you can upgrade a continuous system from the first iteration of windows to the latest. Great explanation of it all too!
@My irons are rusted ironic but, probably because the people who made the pirated version, disabled some necessary telemetry that prevents M$ from checking your "Genuine Windows". (I don't exactly know how windows activation works) And to be honest, I would still prefer windows 8 over 10 even if i absolutely detest the UI. Windows 10, after some years of use, i don't like it. Only reason i use it is the godcursed functionality that it has and that i am way too comfy with.
@My irons are rusted Yea i know your pain, since i too have tried/still tries to use linux but I got a few complaints that just make linux very user unfriendly (cuz of hardware) and, well, i even tried vm-ing with gpu passthrough, and lemme tell you i do not have the brains to make it work at the moment. So im stuck with windows 10 until i get new hardware. I use Pop_OS! btw :D
Fuck. Yes. Windows 7 Ultimate and Home Edition were the best systems, hands down. Windows 8 should've been reserved for smartphones. Not for PC and laptops. Forget how painful it is to navigate and use. Its a f*cking eye-sore to look at. Also, I don't mind a Windows account for compatibility across devices. But the dependency on the internet and WiFi sucks.
I had windows vista back in the day when I was a kid, and I don't remember having many issues with it. Hell, I didn't even upgrade to Windows 7, but instead I skipped that and went up to 8. I still have videos on my channel of me playing Minecraft Beta on Vista.
SOG I'm glad you're a vista fanboy like me really been missign the days of old windows systems as of late and now it's gotten to the point where I'd rather use mac or linux, even if a lot of my hardware and software is incompatible
Muta's story about always going back to Windows 7 whenever he upgraded his computer is also my experience. The fact some people thought the market for desktop computers was going to disappear blows my mind.
I actually really liked 8.1, this was before I ever touched Linux but if I had to choose between 8.1 and 10, 8.1 just holds a special place in my heart.
i think my favorite thing about Windows 98 downloading things was the drum and the drumsticks drumming away; whoever thought of that did it just because; and i love it.
You guessed wrong I’m not on Windows 10 I’m on Windows 7 I don’t care what anybody else thinks of my decision I will use whatever Windows version I please as long as you’ve got an antivirus and know how to stay safe you can use whatever Windows version you like
Aaron there's a club you can join. Only requirement is to install every version of dos through upgrade disks while singing 99 disks of dos on the wall 99 disks of dos. I'll even give you a pass on the 🎵
"and you probably have me up on your 2nd monitor while playing mass effect legendary edition right now" ...*stops playing mass effect and eating cheetos and looks over at second monitor in amazement*
I know maybe people might have bad memories of Windows Vista but it is actually across all the Windows versions the most beautifully designed OS because there is like not even Windows has a glass material look like OS
Man, I sure do love using a 27 year old filesystem type (ironically called New Technology File System) and a mangled mess of an operating system with compatibility layers upon compatibility layers and pretending my OS is modern.
Would be cool to showcase the desktop environments, not necessarily distros because they mostly boggle down to just different package managers and certain configurations. :p
I did something similar. I used my old IBM Aptiva 2168-62P Recovery CD to install PC-DOS 6.0 with Win 3.1. I upgraded the DOS to PC-DOS 7 and WFW 3.11. Installed WinG, Comet Busters, All of the Windows Entertainment and 16-bit arcade packs. Then, I upgraded this to Win 95 OSR2.1. Installed the 32-bit arcade packs. Used Norton Ghost to convert the FAT16 drive to FAT32 and then imaged it to a larger drive. I installed Rudolph Loews Big Disk and Large Memory Patches. Installed the I.E. 4.01 with Active Desktop Update. Installed Plus 95. Then I upgraded 95 to 98 and then 98 to 98SE. Installed Plus 98. I installed the K6-2 patch to allow multi GHz CPUs. Upgraded to Win ME (there was no ME Plus pack). Finally upgraded to Windows XP and installed XP Plus. All of this was done on a Gigabyte Pentium 3 Mobo with a 1GHz P3. It was a MESS! But I enjoyed every minute of it (this was in 2010). I have since lost my Aptiva Recovery CD and I would gladly purchase a replacement for that CD if I could find it. That setup allowed my XP to have all previous plus pack enhancements in addition to XP Plus but it was "naughty"
I am old enough to remember these, I've been playing with computers as a hobby for a long time as they just always interested me from a young age. I just got the flack of being a nerd admitting..
Windows XP (I'm guessing, cause I was really young at the time) is the first windows I ever used. We had an old box computer with it that I used to play Marble Drop on (as well as other disk computer games, but that was the one I played the most)!
This is really cool and oddly heartwarming, but I hope the Lunix Foundation doesn't disown Muta for this. He completely forgot to mention that he uses Arch!
Windows 11 is 64bit only. This legacy is over. RIP. I remember having 4gb ram and running XP x64 with 64bit farcry, Vista was no problem, just buggy drivers let it down. BF2 BSODs were a nightmare Good times, good memories.
Man you know for a fact they won't be removing support for 32 bit. You still can't name a file "COM0" because of how windows did things back in the 90s i guess?
I miss Windows Movie Maker. Especially now when you need an editing software but can't afford one. Edit: Also I had a Windows 7 laptop once. Got the windows 8 upgrade for free. And the screen came clean off because Geek Squad wedged a giant screw into it when I took it to them to get it fixed and cleaned out. I wanted to cry...
you could for example download a episode of the adventures of sonic the hedgehog and use Windows Movie Maker to cut out the "snoo" and "usual i see" out of the line "snooping as usual I see" which is a line said by robotnik in one episode and what remains would be something very funny
No one mentions the best free video editor? VSDC the standard free editor is great the only real limitation on it is it's software rendering only. But if you need to do hardware rendering them you may as well pay for video editing anyway. And can do way more than movie maker could ever do.
"Years down the line when windows completely eliminates 32-bit support" Little did we know it would be 5 months after the upload of this video with the release of Windows 11
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Muta is a great example of a content creator. Like wtf he just went over all the versions of Windows for 40 mins.
The power of "editing"
The original stream was over 8 hours. It was riveting.
@@Armadillord PLEASE tell me there is an archived version Im dying to watch Mutahard for 8 hrs
That's because that there are 3 factors as to why:
1. Great personality
2. Being fast at typing
3. And having a speedy/damn fast computer
@@creationsmarko well, you can watch him originally on his twitch tho
Muta: blurs out filling in the Win98 license key
Also Muta: brings up a text document which shows all the Windows license keys uncensored, including Win98
@@franklydoodle350 15:56
Muta moment
I was thinking the same thing. Why even blur the code? So someone doesn't get a free windows 98 key??
kinda wondering the same thing. afaik windows 98 is considered abandonware, so there's kinda no reason to blur it. but oh well
I believe he doesnt want to self incriminate by documenting entering a generated i.e. not paid for key. Just good practice. He doesnt care if you see the generated key elsewhere. Blurring the action leaves him with a level of plausible deniability against the key he entered being generated.
things that muta is good at talking about:
- virtual machines
- arch linux
- security
and
B A L L S
Why is this true
That's so true
He should prank call scammers like scammer revolts but I would be funny him talking shit to them in Hindi😂🤣
@@lurking5149 Now that would be fun!
@@lurking5149 I third this
I love the aesthetic of XP. I still think it looks nice even today.
yeah i agree
y e s
no
the windows vista/7 aesthetics look better imo
Yeah. I literally did a full XP reskin of my Windows 10 laptop, including visuals, the taskbar and start menu, and all the sounds, and I like it so much more than default Windows 10's look (and I find the start menu much more useful, I actually use it now). I even got old apps including 3D Pinball and Windows Movie Maker!
I like how mutahar says that microsoft will eventually kill 32 bit support down the line and then like a month later windows 11 was announced to have killed 32 bit support
rip playing GTA 3D universe
@@arkcliref32 bit apps still work if that game is 32 bit lol
XP was my first OS. The feature I remember the most was Microsoft Sam, the microsoft text to speech. Anyone who was on the internet at the time will remember how much of a starring role Microsoft sam had in many internet videos.
I remember downloading service pack 2 for xp and recoiling in horror as the update bricked my comp
Oh god. My roflcopter goes swa swa, i swear that was the funniest shit online back then
Oh yes, when ''ped'' would cause him to glitch spit. Good memories.
"You have selected Microsoft Sam as the computers default voice."
My roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi
Honestly, when he told me which monitor he was on, and what game I was playing, I’ve never been so scared in my life
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@@harambe9461 mass effect
He got me to the os and monitor, but I was playing Minecraft
is SomeOrdinaryGamers indian?
Maybe idk i think he made a joke or something about it once but it wasn't really clear
Muta probably showed the entire childhood of *some* viewer out there
Windows 7
And I'm one of those viewers!
I'm guessing you're not? XD
I smoke weed & get high on my RUclips channel for a living, I’m saving money to open a cannabis dispensary
Mine... it’s my childhood
@@SevenHunnid thats cool but Ive never found a weedtuber through the comments. Do some challenge vids and cool discussion topics to get attention not asking 4 it in comments. Nobody respects that bro. It'd be cool though if u started a series on how you're taking steps towards your own dispo, maybe something like "Dispo Dream" for the series name and make the titles like "insert episode title/topic | DISPO DREAM #(x) "
Muda: Windows 10 is the last...
Microsoft: How the tables have turned
actually now windows 11 is the last microsoft os since they have announced windows 11 but it's not now realesed but you cant get windows 11 by downloading on the internet it you need to go get the insider build of windows but it hes not set by default so you need to go to the settings then click i think insider build then change it to insider build then click i think update to insider build or something then you will get windows 11
@@firefoxgamingpg3d yes that's what he's saying lmao
Ah have how turned tables the
how the turn.. tables...?
@@TheSlicingSword
Ah, how the turns have tabled.
win 7 is bae dont @ me
@me 😳😳😳
@me
Yeah I've used it for a long time and enjoy it
olive wars is teh perfect gaming experience. dont @ me
@me hahaha 😳😳😳
When he said "you are on W10, have a billion tabs open and I'm on the second monitor" I got scared shitless because of how spot on it was.
He nailed even the mass effect part for me :D
I use W7, only 1 tab open, and uh, doesn't even have a 2nd monitor-
@bud Yid yeah but can it play games?
Windows 10? Ha! *Laughs in Manjaro*
On a Mac, two n a half monitors. ( iPad )
I like how Mutahar censored the CD key he was typing but didn't censor the notepad with them.
i literally came down in the comments to type that as well lmao
Stacksmashing has a great video on 98 keys ruclips.net/video/cwyH59nACzQ/видео.html
Mistakes were made
Maybe he had to blur the act itself , rather than the CD key used
Lmaooooo
as a poor kid windows 8.1 ran on literally anything and upgrading to windows 10 nearly bricked my 4gb ram laptop, other than that I can see why you dislike it
the good thing is that you can't brick computers since you can just reinstall, you can only brick if you mess / update bios but never by reinstalling an os with right drivers
This. Windows 8.1 is surprisingly lightweight and efficient, almost as much as Windows 7. I'm using a shitty prebuilt from 2007 and it runs pretty well. I would run 7 but I use 2 monitors and 8.1 has better support for multi-monitor setups.
@@namesurname4666 brick as in made it unusable in comparison my bad for not being oddly specific lmao
The poor Windows 8 machine barely ran Windows 10. I'm not even joking.
I put windows 10 on a 2gb laptop that had came with Vista and it ran fine no sound from speakers was the only prob other than that it ran better than vista
I never watch videos longer than 5 minutes but Muta’s narration made me watch this whole thing. As an 80s kid I have lived through and used all of these and Muta covered every talking point to a T. Brilliant research and even more amazing delivery Muta. You are a gem.
Windows Vista was my childhood. We had 2 Computer (one Desktop with XP and one Laptop with VIsta). We actually used the Laptop the most.
We in fact still have the laptop. The Display isn't working anymore, but with an external Monitor, it is good to go.
Windows 7 was the last system designed with desktops in mind. I miss it.
Same, that was a great OS.
still works for me
@@xenos_n. windows seven was across the board pc perfection. Ran great on laptops ran well on desktop.
@@Vafarien not for me. my amd don't have drivers for windows 7
@@xenos_n. still have it.
I really wish that Microsoft gave us themes on Windows 10 that were stylized to older versions of windows as part of its 35th year anniversary. It would be really cool to use Windows 7 theming or at least aero glass in Windows 10 (officially)
Same, Windows Vista - 7 kinda had it because classic mode was a thing but they removed it because of the Metro stuff. Aero still looks nice imo
@@doctahjonez I hate that Microsoft is changing the Windows 10 icon style again WITHOUT letting users go back to using the old ones.
@@Michael18751 I didn't even know that lol. Microsoft does that kind of stuff a lot tbh
I really fuckin wish but probably never gonna happen because they don’t care about their legacy that much
Listen, I don't want the annoying trauma of using Windows 7 Professional in Windows 10 with not having any support since January 2018 with it not even being able to boot on or have literally ONE internet tab open without severe crashing issues.
Gotta give a major props to Muta for that 1 mil on the pinball game-Your dad must be so proud.
Nah he probably has a vendetta.
22:50 I actually did this exact process not long ago for a Windows 10 VM. For some reason Windows 10 decided it needed to place the recovery partition directly to the right of the C partition when it was installed, so even if you expand the hard drive Windows 10's built in partition manager could not actually expand the C partition. Now, once I actually fixed and expanded the partitions with GParted Windows 10 decided that the hard drive was corrupted and that it really wanted to do a disk check every time I started the VM, but if I ever forgot to interrupt that and make it just boot up then the disk checker would completely brick my VM (luckily I had made a backup before making this discovery). I never was able to find a fix for that either, so thanks Microsoft! I just love that you took care to include tools in Windows that will automatically brick my PC!
I love DOS. I remember playing heroes of might and magic alongside a Winnie the Pooh game, and my dad had to use the command line to boot anything for me. Dude this whole process is a trip down memory lane, but you can still connect a commodore64 to the internet for messageboards that 3 people still use if you really wanted to.
I remember when i got my xp parts I got 1GB of ram and the dude in the shop said "why do you want 1 gig ? you don't need that much"
Now a days that is how much chrome needs just to hold like 4 tabs
XP is painful to use on less than 512mb, I tried it back in the day with 384mb on a Pentium 3 system and had to go back to Windows 2000. A co worker got it running on a P4 system with 256mb of Rambus though. That being said most XP systems won't get to 4GB of ram due to hardware limits and the OS maxing at 3.5GB unless you are running XP 64 bit edition on an AMD Athlon 64bit or newer cpu.
one day we get a video about scary evil gamers and next video’s just installing every single version of windows
I love logic
The entire history of Windows Any% WR
HOME - We're finally landing *starts playing*
@@NuclearTopSpot summoning salt starts talking
"Windows, it's something we all use, but have you ever tried to speedrun it?"
whats Hazbin 'hotel?
@@ErzaRosenberg It's a cartoon on RUclips.
@@ErzaRosenberg it used to be like a social gaming site
Great trip down memory lane. Gave me flashbacks to playing Transport Tycoon and Command & Conquer on MS-DOS; making new folders and changing icons on 3.11 and feeling like a pro; having my mind blown when I first saw 95's interface; taking my first steps on the internet on 98; running ME on my first personally owned system; having my mind blown (again) by XP's interface, trying out and talking about Longhorn (Vista) with my friends when it leaked (again, feeling like a pro), running 7 for too long because of 8's "Metro" interface and finally upgrading to 8.1/10 because everyone dropped support for 7.
Fun times. Thank you very much, Muta.
I have to bitch about few things though:
5:00 This low? Those specs are pretty damn high. 2GB max partition size is some serious 80's futureproofing. Consumer level hardware from the late 80's would've been a 5-20MB HDD, 1-4MB RAM, a 10-30Mhz CPU and a sound card if you could afford one.
27:00 I get the point and I remember there being a lot of drama when the first dual core CPU's got introduced, but cores and threads aren't the same thing. Single cores ran multiple threads (Intel called it Hyperthreading I believe).
Windows Vista was my childhood OS up until 2015, when it crashed permanently with literal matrix letters frozen on the screen.
"In hardware, it's impossible"
Michael MJD: *Try me betch*
tbf even he could only do it from windows 1.0 to windows 7 which is a remarkable feat on its own.
did he have to do like, harddrive transfers? like copy all the files to progressivly larger drives
@@Ganerrr no he only had to expand his hard drive partition and change the file system around XP to Vista (off camera) but no hard drive transfer as he was using a windows 98 pc from that period, which had plenty of hard drive space for Vista and 7 to run. You can just watch the full video- ruclips.net/video/O39gqrLJbMc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/VXJXJypYrfo/видео.html
Okami haha I tweeted him this video... I wonder how he'll react.
muta, famous gamer and linux connoisseur was forced to install windows, what a dark day in history ladies and gentlemen....
He chose to go through the pain and suffering for our sake, so we wouldn't have to.
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@jo e The rumor come out, bois!!!
"The four people who owned those surface tablets"
Not even joking I actually had a few of those way back than
I love how when they were shown on NFL games, all the commentators still called them ipad's, with the windows logo on full display
I have a 2in1 it's great, not a Surface though. It's a bit overpowered for watching youtube, so I limit the clock to save battery
is SomeOrdinaryGamers indian?
I still have mine. It stopped working ages ago though lmao.
@@ЛевНикодим Yes human, yes he is
would love to see a video exploring all the windows subsystems just geting a view of the stuff under the hood
The fact that he knew what he was doing enough to do this tells me he could've fixed the aspect ratio in the ad read if he wanted to and just couldn't be fucked, which is an absolute power move
This new hairstyle is like there has been an Anime time skip
Muta is ready to tatakae
It ain't his final form and I'm scared that he's going from "I will blow your mind" to simply "I will blow up your neighbourhood"
It fits him so well, it's like he has had intense years of elite martial arts training and is now elite fighter muta only that it was linux and other OS's instead
69 like
Showing the five head
did anyone else use that one start menu replacement program back on windows 8 lol
Yea
Is there anyone who didn't?
I use one for Windows 10 now.
@@greglane334 me me me me me me me me i XTREMELY love the start screen
Dude that made windows 8 so much easier
I like how the notepad with the cd keys was not blurred but the field to enter the key in was blurred. :D
Smooth brain muta
he had keys but you can't prove he used them.
muta's brain isn't smooth, it's been folded over 1 million times and can cut through steel like butter. or ghee, as it were.
Came for some ordinary games, left with some OS knowledge lol
I love it!
"It looks like you're writing a letter" - Since we're being all nostalgic
Muta: Red rooms doesn’t exist
Also Muta: Inside a red room
this is true
People in the Red Room: Who is this Muta guy
He has lied to us since Deep Web Browsing began.
is SomeOrdinaryGamers indian?
@@ЛевНикодим Indian-Canadian, if I'm not mistaken.
Damn Muta, you really did download all windows, how perplexing, very bonkers
He actually missed a few
@ItsMini oops my bad, not wearing my glasses. Thanks
You know it’s serious when Muta has to update his Windows
Update to what version?
Muta: *yes*
This looks like one of those videos that will have lasting value. Great stuff!
"You're probably on windows 10" *feels hurt in linux*
Agreed
Android is also linux and I'm on my phone
This was really fun to watch - a great trip down memory lane!
My life with my own PCs went from Win3.11 all the way through Win10 (although I started with an Apple IIc, and I got to use a Win2.0 machine at my neighbour’s house), and honestly Win98, 2000, and XP still are my favourites. 98 is the most stable OS I’ve experienced in my life, and it had amazing functionality for the era. I miss DOS, now. A lot. Back then, I actually knew how to *use* my computer and play with the bios/drivers, some simple programming, and having fun with my charming 14.4 dial up modem, as opposed to my being almost completely lost when it comes to my current PC laptop. I had a ME machine my sophomore year of college, and it had some cool features, but it wasn’t ... stable ... in my experience with it, and I actually upgraded it to 2000 by the end of the school year. Windows NT was badass, though. I got to use it for work back then, and I started doing all my school stuff at work until I got 2000 because ME was gawdawful garbage. Vista wasn’t TERRIBLE, but I did revert to XP after a few months of Vista, even though I had it on a pretty damn overpowered, high end PC with a NVIDIA graphics card. I just didn’t like the UI, honestly. It ran well and was stable, unlike ME.
I’m actually still running XP on my desktop - the same one that was made to be a Vista machine - and it’s been a LOT of work to keep such an old machine running and compatible with necessary peripherals, but it’s worth it. I don’t care that it’s not supported. It still does what I need it to do. Obviously, I didn’t really care for 7, 8, or 10.
It feels odd for someone who started learning simple programming on an Apple IIc in kindergarten in 1986-1987 and who even built both her own 3.11 and Win95 machines in middle and high school, to be turning into a Luddite. And I have kept up with the new OSes as they’ve come out, but I just don’t like any OS after XP, although my complaints are mostly UI issues, as opposed to functionality or stability issues.
Regardless, this video was really well done and well researched since you’re too young to remember the pre Win98 era very well! Thanks for the journey back into my childhood!
Beautifully spoken
"Yeah that was perfect for the people who were on the Surface Tablet"
As an owner of a Surface Tablet, no, it was dreadful. You were better off installing Windows 7 on the damn tablet, it was much more stable, much better supported by touchscreen and digitiser drivers, and if you wanted to hook the tablet up to a second screen and pretend it's a desktop PC, like many of us did when not on the road, you NEEDED windows 7 because you lost the ability to use the touchscreen the second you plugged in that HDMI cable. Windows 10's optional "tablet mode" is the only reason Surface Tablets still live on to this day.
It would be better for everyone if they made desktop appropriate Windows operating systems again and stop trying to make them look like tablet interfaces!
I use chrome OS
@@spilt-milkie Good for you. I personally don't trust Google for online activity, which is why I'm using Firefox as my browser.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 not gonna hate or some but arent now here on youtube, a site owned by google commenting some?
@@Bill_Gamesh I see you have a point there. But it's not like I have other good options for video sites on the internet.
"1 million tabs open, my video on the second screen, and playing a game while watching" damn dude, pretty surgical strike there
He knows us too well
I "can't afford" a 2nd monitor
@@Th3Curs3dChild I used to have a second monitor but my brother stole it from me while I was sleeping and didn’t give it back.
@@dragoneater2008_ steal your brother's heart
I remember being about 6 years old (2005 -2006) and going with my parents to staples or some place and buy a 2 ton chunker of a tower that ran Vista I believe. I stayed on New grounds, max games, armor games, etc lmao
Honestly, I loved 8´s start screen. Whenever I was browsing anything and a parent walked by I could quickly press the windows key to switch to the start screen and they wouldn´t know I was watching the fabled "VIOLENT CONTENT" they didn't want me to watch.
16:05
>censors the entry field but not the list of keys right next to it
Bruh moment
I would love to see a whole series like this, with other operating systems ie Linux, MacOs and such.
I don't think its possible to do this with Macintosh
@@kkadam2636 it better play vaporwave
I don't think it should be possible with linux
Running ubuntu, xubuntu, kubuntu, lubuntu, ubuntu mate, debian, arch, manjaro, fedora, linux lite, mint, etc at the same time
@@kkadam2636 Surely you could, right ? Just change the CPU and other virtual components inside a VMware and progressively go up. Not an expert tho don't quote me on that
this is such a SoG thing to do and i loved every minute of it.
Awesome video, but it wasn't what I expected from the title. Not exactly sure what I expected from the title, but that was a great concept for a video, seeing if you can upgrade a continuous system from the first iteration of windows to the latest. Great explanation of it all too!
25:38 Muta's TEDtalk on why virtual machines should be considered as living beings - 2021, colorized
Thank you muta. This surely will take us back to the good days
*Muta
@@AaronCleetus-cj4gw yep, meta it is!
@@ibishudrive oops
@@ibishudrive my autocorrect is horrible
@@OnlyKent f
Windows 8 is the definition of "Don't fix what's not broken."
Nods repeatedly. The trauma of that os still resides within me like an uncontrolled demon.
@My irons are rusted ironic but, probably because the people who made the pirated version, disabled some necessary telemetry that prevents M$ from checking your "Genuine Windows". (I don't exactly know how windows activation works)
And to be honest, I would still prefer windows 8 over 10 even if i absolutely detest the UI. Windows 10, after some years of use, i don't like it. Only reason i use it is the godcursed functionality that it has and that i am way too comfy with.
@My irons are rusted Yea i know your pain, since i too have tried/still tries to use linux but I got a few complaints that just make linux very user unfriendly (cuz of hardware) and, well, i even tried vm-ing with gpu passthrough, and lemme tell you i do not have the brains to make it work at the moment. So im stuck with windows 10 until i get new hardware.
I use Pop_OS! btw :D
That’s such a great way to put it ☝️
Fuck. Yes.
Windows 7 Ultimate and Home Edition were the best systems, hands down.
Windows 8 should've been reserved for smartphones. Not for PC and laptops. Forget how painful it is to navigate and use. Its a f*cking eye-sore to look at.
Also, I don't mind a Windows account for compatibility across devices. But the dependency on the internet and WiFi sucks.
I had windows vista back in the day when I was a kid, and I don't remember having many issues with it. Hell, I didn't even upgrade to Windows 7, but instead I skipped that and went up to 8. I still have videos on my channel of me playing Minecraft Beta on Vista.
SOG I'm glad you're a vista fanboy like me really been missign the days of old windows systems as of late and now it's gotten to the point where I'd rather use mac or linux, even if a lot of my hardware and software is incompatible
Windows Vista rocks
"there are people watching that weren't even alive for Windows XP"
The psychological damage I got from that omg what even is time
windows xp was made in 2001
the fun fact i still have 4 computer towers of XP while every other tower is of course just the one.
Right Windows XP was my childhood I feel old
Probably people watching who weren't alive for vista too
@@friedsugar2701 probably even windows 7
Muta's story about always going back to Windows 7 whenever he upgraded his computer is also my experience. The fact some people thought the market for desktop computers was going to disappear blows my mind.
Btw, Vista was chill AF to use, I still preferred XP but I miss vistas ball pen game...
I am now realizing I’m the only person with windows 2000 nostalgia
me too man
Tony hawk’s underground ran smooth as a whistle on my grandpa’s windows 2000 dell optiplex (the smaller one that sorta resembled an xbox 360)
You know you're a geek when you watch a 40 minute video about installing windows lmao
Yes sir
Yep
we need info lol
"15 minutes ago"
Nah. Being a geek is warching the hours long livestream of Muta actually doing all this in real time
Muta: accessing internet in windows 98 isn't possible
Michael mjd: hold my beer
I actually really liked 8.1, this was before I ever touched Linux but if I had to choose between 8.1 and 10, 8.1 just holds a special place in my heart.
My first ever computer came with windows 8.1
@@alucard8678 Damn bro, you like 12 years old 💀
@@LOL_MANN nah, never had enough money, I was 16 when I got my first pc
@@alucard8678 Bro live in 3rd world country or really did not had 300usd to blow on low end PC 💀
Ever heard of summer job? 🤑💰
i think my favorite thing about Windows 98 downloading things was the drum and the drumsticks drumming away; whoever thought of that did it just because; and i love it.
You guessed wrong I’m not on Windows 10 I’m on Windows 7 I don’t care what anybody else thinks of my decision I will use whatever Windows version I please as long as you’ve got an antivirus and know how to stay safe you can use whatever Windows version you like
It's so nice finally finding a youtuber uploading in my monitor resolution haha!
Now do the reverse uno card of downgrading back to 1.0
muta, please don't list off exactly what i'm doing ever again. you scared me for a sec.
15:55 lol Muta blurring the key but has a notepad with the keys shown anyway
That was really interesting to watch! Thanks for making it Muta :D
I feel old. I actually remember MSDOS and Windows 95.
Windows 95 was awesome. Was never a fan of MSDOS.
I just barely remember 95, it was my first computer's OS.
WindowsXP gang rise up
Aaron there's a club you can join. Only requirement is to install every version of dos through upgrade disks while singing 99 disks of dos on the wall 99 disks of dos. I'll even give you a pass on the 🎵
@@yesandyes9168 I believe it or not had a pc bricked by xp service pack 2
"and you probably have me up on your 2nd monitor while playing mass effect legendary edition right now" ...*stops playing mass effect and eating cheetos and looks over at second monitor in amazement*
It’s the moment we all have been waiting for
To all my old vista users who didn’t have a great computer and stuck it out keep going
I know maybe people might have bad memories of Windows Vista but it is actually across all the Windows versions the most beautifully designed OS because there is like not even Windows has a glass material look like OS
Man, I sure do love using a 27 year old filesystem type (ironically called New Technology File System) and a mangled mess of an operating system with compatibility layers upon compatibility layers and pretending my OS is modern.
Somewhere in an alternate universe SomeOrdinaryGamers is actually a group of very ordinary gamers
Underrated comment
Based
Would love to see this done with the Mac OS versions. Maybe even Linux also!
Would probably just recommend something like Ubuntu for people who aren’t as educated on it. Mostly just to see the UI changes
Would be cool to showcase the desktop environments, not necessarily distros because they mostly boggle down to just different package managers and certain configurations. :p
I did something similar. I used my old IBM Aptiva 2168-62P Recovery CD to install PC-DOS 6.0 with Win 3.1. I upgraded the DOS to PC-DOS 7 and WFW 3.11. Installed WinG, Comet Busters, All of the Windows Entertainment and 16-bit arcade packs. Then, I upgraded this to Win 95 OSR2.1. Installed the 32-bit arcade packs. Used Norton Ghost to convert the FAT16 drive to FAT32 and then imaged it to a larger drive. I installed Rudolph Loews Big Disk and Large Memory Patches. Installed the I.E. 4.01 with Active Desktop Update. Installed Plus 95. Then I upgraded 95 to 98 and then 98 to 98SE. Installed Plus 98. I installed the K6-2 patch to allow multi GHz CPUs. Upgraded to Win ME (there was no ME Plus pack). Finally upgraded to Windows XP and installed XP Plus. All of this was done on a Gigabyte Pentium 3 Mobo with a 1GHz P3. It was a MESS! But I enjoyed every minute of it (this was in 2010). I have since lost my Aptiva Recovery CD and I would gladly purchase a replacement for that CD if I could find it. That setup allowed my XP to have all previous plus pack enhancements in addition to XP Plus but it was "naughty"
jokes on you Muta, in 2007 I had a HP all in one touchscreen Vista PC that was a whole ass 2 grand and Vista was a dream to have
I am old enough to remember these, I've been playing with computers as a hobby for a long time as they just always interested me from a young age. I just got the flack of being a nerd admitting..
Windows XP (I'm guessing, cause I was really young at the time) is the first windows I ever used. We had an old box computer with it that I used to play Marble Drop on (as well as other disk computer games, but that was the one I played the most)!
Windows 2000 was my first but I used XP, windows 7 and os x tiger way more
This is really cool and oddly heartwarming, but I hope the Lunix Foundation doesn't disown Muta for this. He completely forgot to mention that he uses Arch!
Reminder to pacman -Syu today
Windows Vista was where I started gamin and yes it had problems but it worked just fine for what I needed at the time! Thank you for defendin my boi~!
Mutahar: You're probably using Windows 10."
Me using Windows 11: "I am 1 alternate universe ahead of you."
You forgot Binbows Michaelsoft
Is it sad that I still believe Windows XP was the best time to be alive
Probably, but it is the truth.
definitely not sad and totally normal
Thank you, that was actually really nostalgic and wholesome.
Windows 11 is 64bit only. This legacy is over. RIP. I remember having 4gb ram and running XP x64 with 64bit farcry, Vista was no problem, just buggy drivers let it down. BF2 BSODs were a nightmare Good times, good memories.
I like Vista but what ruined it is crappy driver support.
Man you know for a fact they won't be removing support for 32 bit. You still can't name a file "COM0" because of how windows did things back in the 90s i guess?
You say “this is the dumbest thing I’ve done” so often it’s just reflex now
2:05 "I'm probably somewhere on the second monitor..."
Me with arch running on my laptop and windows running on my monitor 👁👄👁
ThinkPad?
There is always a smile in my face whenever i see Windows Xp.. 😊
I remember booting up this chunky Toshiba laptop with windows xp, still miss it's laggy system
I miss Punished Muta
I'm pretty sure my childhood laptop ran Vista, maybe 7, but it's been so long and it's very dead.
I miss Windows Movie Maker. Especially now when you need an editing software but can't afford one.
Edit: Also I had a Windows 7 laptop once. Got the windows 8 upgrade for free. And the screen came clean off because Geek Squad wedged a giant screw into it when I took it to them to get it fixed and cleaned out. I wanted to cry...
Davinci resolve is really nice & free
@Jeramy Bryan filmora has the big ass watermark
I got WMM back, you just need to download the essentials and reinstall.
you could for example download a episode of the adventures of sonic the hedgehog and use Windows Movie Maker to cut out the "snoo" and "usual i see" out of the line "snooping as usual I see" which is a line said by robotnik in one episode and what remains would be something very funny
No one mentions the best free video editor? VSDC the standard free editor is great the only real limitation on it is it's software rendering only. But if you need to do hardware rendering them you may as well pay for video editing anyway. And can do way more than movie maker could ever do.
16:04 Hmm yes, blurs the Key in the VM Window but doesn´t blur the Notepad
"Local man virtualizes MS DOS and upgrades it to Windows 10"
Local man, like every neighborhood has their local man, i love it
@@Perseagatuna But not every neighborhood has a local Mutahar lmao
"Years down the line when windows completely eliminates 32-bit support"
Little did we know it would be 5 months after the upload of this video with the release of Windows 11
I had a great vista experience. I still love the look of it. I was lucky that my family had a PC that could run it.
It's nice seeing someone semi-successfully doing this. MichaelMJD tried doing this purely on hardware.