Huh? The joke was not even a critic, I never criticized KernelEx. Yes I like it on 2000, 98 isn’t that bad at all but it’s not their fault because browsers, security protocols, have evolved quite fast these years that Win98/KernelEx can’t keep up with them nowadays. And my criticism was always targeted towards the browsers and the excessive number of custom browsers for XP but almost nil options for 98/Me. I don’t get why there are more custom browsers for XP when even official browsers still work perfectly on XP. IMHO people should be more focused in doing custom browsers for 98/Me/2000 than XP.
In one or two years, 2000 will be where 98 is now. Youtube is starting to break for 2000 with their revamped version, so 2000 users will soon be where 98 users are now. It’s normal - HTML, JS and CSS are always evolving. Retro compatibility are one of the reasons why I want people to stop using jQuery and learn vanilla JS. But jQuery has taken so much dominance these days that its now incredibly hard to go back to the vanilla. (Trust me, I tried to do that with my new website and a week later, I was doing jQuery again).
Don’t get me wrong - I like 98, that was my 1st and favorite choice for a retro gaming pc, for nostalgia reasons, but without browsing options I had to resort to the closest thing to the 98 that exists- 2000. I’m not happy with that either but I can live with that. Anything that is not Windows 10, I’m good.
However, I’m pretty sure that the number of 98/Me enthusiasts aren’t going down because of my, or someone elses criticism, but yes because of the lack of news on KernelEx or updates for these systems. We are pretty much stuck with what we have now. People want to go forward so you can’t blame them for looking elsewhere for other options such as 2000. I have spent months and lost nights trying to improve 98 for better browsing. No luck, sadly. I did all I could.
If anything, I made the joke with the intention to praise what KernelEx has done for both systems, not as a critic. I just caught myself thinking “what if we had that for 3.x too? Oh, I can dream.” And hey presto, there was an april fools joke. I’m sorry if you didn’t get it the way I did.