there is something to be said about old windows installation CDs being essentially modern-day equivalents of immutable docker layers - i don't think one could say that about modern windows, but then i'm not super clued in into ms stuff.
With all the problems that recent Windows updates are causing, and a blog post about how the Windows team are using Native React to deliver changes to the apps such as a part of Settings outside the usual updates I got to thinking how great it was back in the Windows 3.11, 95, and XP days when you got Windows and it mostly worked and it didn't get updated (aka more broken) every day. It was quick enough, it was yours, and it didn't tell you what to do.
You'd reinstall every year or two to clean out the disused DLLs etc, but it was mostly fine.
Of course it wasn't exposed to quite the same hostile environment it is today.
