I loved the one that would take a screenshot of your current desktop and you could smash it with a hammer and set it on fire. Little me had some anger issues

I think this was the same one that also had the trampoline chicken that would bounce higher and higher each time?

I’ve looked for those a couple times in recent years but with no luck. Are they lost to time or am I just not looking well enough?

How could you not for being forced to use Windows?

Not everyone has a hate boner for Windows.

Everyone did around the VXD/BSOD era. Remember these?

https://tenor.com/search/man-smashes-computer-gifs

I remember Red Hat 5 being not that great or usable either.

Linux never acted like Win9x cooperative multitasking and bsod, it was mostly just missing things outright or forced one to edit config files and use fdisk. Annoying perhaps but not rage inducing. The kind of blind rage that comes from losing your work for the third time today.

What was this thing called?

Desktop Destroyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJQRBpZKI3g

I was fond (I know, I know ...) of those dancing er ... dancers you could have cavorting around your taskbar and Star Menu. The days ...

PS. They would use up an obscene amount of memory and wholesale freeze your entire computer every 20 minutes. Didn't matter :)

Someone upthread is right: VirtualGirl it was called. Borderline spyware, but really well done.-

We got home internet for the first time around then, and its main use (to me) was going to downloads.com and getting screensavers.

I spent hours downloading one that was macaroni doing the Macarena.

(Screensavers, which were a thing back then - and useful in the age of CRTs - and, of course, wallpapers ...