You were lucky. I never had to shut down my WinMe PC, because it would blue screen and shut itself down near the end of the day, every day. I'm glad it introduced System Restore because I had to use it often due to constant data loss.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

i reinstalled ME sooooo many times

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Windows ME they decided to include the WinNT driver model (can't remember what it's called) alongside the legacy VXD drivers. It's actually quite similar to some of the complaints when Windows Vista did it again.

The problem was shit/rushed driver support. If you built a new PC with well supported hardware, or just got lucky, ME wasn't any less stable than 98SE in my opinion.

Of course the nuance is lost to time, all anyone remembers is "ME bad."

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

2000 was better, though.