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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.

Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.