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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
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This is not accurate: MS-DOS and even win95 gaming were a nightmare of setup. You had to choose your own IRQ values to get sound to even work and might even need to change *dip switches* to get things compatible.
gpt
Not to mention that every driver came on a separate disc/floppies and would have to be selected manually.  


Lost a few of those discs in a move? Shit outta luck unless you had a friend with the same gear or the elusive internet connection.  


Seriously, reinstalling win95 was a full day's worth of work, and it's not as if you could stream music or videos from the same computer while you were doing it. The amount of people with more than one computer in the house back then was also prohibitively small.