[J-Kuhn]

Things got better with newer windows versions.

* Userland printer drivers (that don't bring down the machine if they have a bug)

* Mandatory driver signing...

Nowadays I can run my machine 24/7 without any crashes. Which would be unthinkable back in the day.

[ornornor]

Back in the day, your uptime was a source of pride. So much so that I remember using samurize to display my PC’s uptime right in the desktop… my Linux workstation of today isn’t impressed at all.

[Borg3]

12:50:37 up 1224 days, 53 min, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00

Not desktop tho, my home router/server :)