The primary modus operandi for that time was turn on your PC, work/game, turn off your PC. As Win9x was never a server OS, nobody treated it as so.
And when people whine about 9x being unstable they don't remember (or even never experienced it themselves) how awful was the hardware it worked on.
I "fondly" remember some combinations of hardware were a literally ticking time bombs, you never knew when it whould BSOD. Though by that time I had enough understanding what if I see CMSXXX.VXD failing it is the problem with a cheap ass sound card drivers, not Windows itself.
And when people whine about 9x being unstable they don't remember (or even never experienced it themselves) how awful was the hardware it worked on.
I "fondly" remember some combinations of hardware were a literally ticking time bombs, you never knew when it whould BSOD. Though by that time I had enough understanding what if I see CMSXXX.VXD failing it is the problem with a cheap ass sound card drivers, not Windows itself.