Windows 95
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Feb 28, 2026first mention
Sep 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“My memories of windows 95 are very fond. I used to install it on Pentium 133 and boy it flew.”
“It's hard to imagine not being impressed by the step up from 3.1”
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“I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6.”
“I think Windows 95/2000 and the contemporary MacOS (including the then future MacOS X) have the best UI”
30+ years in techon “The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usabi…”
Caveats and dissent
“the CD-burner that couldn't work under Windows 95 without dying”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 2 mentions
- The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996) 2 mentions
- Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it? 1 mention
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- Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] 1 mention
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All comments 7
“I still have a circa-1996 486 running Windows 95.”
“i used Win95 on an AMD 386DX with 4MB of RAM back in the 90s”
“My memories of windows 95 are very fond. I used to install it on Pentium 133 and boy it flew.”
“It's hard to imagine not being impressed by the step up from 3.1”
“the CD-burner that couldn't work under Windows 95 without dying”
“I have fond memories of Windows 95/NT 4/98/2000, Office 97, and Visual Basic 6.”
“I think Windows 95/2000 and the contemporary MacOS (including the then future MacOS X) have the best UI”