I have a very vague memory from and old Windows 2000 school computer (side note: Windows 7 was already released then) opening a full-screen-only DOS application, and being able to display it as paused if viewed inside a window, while Windows XP could only view it as full screen or minimised entirely.
But it ran much more smoothly on Windows XP.
On Windows Vista/7, if GPU-accelerated transparency effects are enabled, it somehow doesn't support it at all.
And Windows 8 (and 64-bit Vista ans Win7) had fullscreen removed entirely (except in safe mode) as far as I remember. Windows 10 brought it back, but without changing the display output resolution signal like Windows XP did. The 32-Bit Windows editions at least showed a message saying full screen wasn't supported on the systems, instead of no response at all.
Side note: I mainly use Linux Mint since more than a year.
I have a very vague memory from and old Windows 2000 school computer (side note: Windows 7 was already released then) opening a full-screen-only DOS application, and being able to display it as paused if viewed inside a window, while Windows XP could only view it as full screen or minimised entirely.
But it ran much more smoothly on Windows XP.
On Windows Vista/7, if GPU-accelerated transparency effects are enabled, it somehow doesn't support it at all.
And Windows 8 (and 64-bit Vista ans Win7) had fullscreen removed entirely (except in safe mode) as far as I remember. Windows 10 brought it back, but without changing the display output resolution signal like Windows XP did. The 32-Bit Windows editions at least showed a message saying full screen wasn't supported on the systems, instead of no response at all.
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Side note: I mainly use Linux Mint since more than a year.
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