Why do you still use XP?

I like the intentions of ReactOS https://reactos.org/
But it seems to me for now that it is not past NT 5.2 app compatibility.
Interestingly in their latest News regarding NT6+:
"...A group made up of Timo Kreuzer, Justin Miller, and other developers and contributors alike are developing the necessary APIs for compatibility with modern programs..."
It would be great if this project was fully realized, a stake though the heart.

 

All I can say is 'you're doing it wrong'.

1. Never ran into this on any of the xp systems I use.
2. Running 2560x1600 as I type, and have run 4k before.
3. Youtube is funny so I wouldn't equate that to an xp issue. On a first generation xeon system I have with a gtx280 gpu, youtube runs better than on an i7-2680 laptop I have--youtube does what it wants.

 

OS/2 was IBMs real solution for the DOS-Windows era, but it was perfected too late, and I'm afraid it is still suffering from the same fate. Still, for those of us that don't need to be bleeding edge, it's probably great, but then so is just running something older.

 

I use Invideous for YT viewing.
https://redirect.invidious.io/

 

My #1 reason as well, exactly, thanks for posting!

 

AnyDesk .com

 

On XP (and other OSs) I love Glarysoft Quick Search. It searches all local hard drives (that you checkbox) for your search string with each character you type, finishing in less than 1 second. It does this by reading the MFT on NTFS drives directly, instead of searching through folders like the XP UI does. FAT32 is a little slower in Quick Search, but results still show up after several seconds. Overall, so much faster than watching the XP UI animated crawl through each folder one at a time, artificially slowed down, just like Win98 new PNP hardware detection compared to WinME detection.

 

Why would you want to watch youtube "live" and sit thru all the ads? Download the video in ANY resolution with jDownloader (I install it to a ramdrive) and watch it offline, on ANY device, with zero lag/buffering/stuttering/jerkiness/out-of-sync BS.