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Anon goes back to Windows 10 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Windows 7 was the peak.

This is not 'things were better when you were fifteen.' I started on Apple fucking II. I remember Windows 95 being new and fancy, and even that 90 MHz 16 MB ass DOS extension of an operating system had better UI and better UX than Windows 10 or 11. 98 was an improvement, NT was a tradeoff, ME was a mistake, XP was a lurching step forward, service packs can burn in hell, Vista doubly so. Windows 7 was the last time the good-bad-good-bad cycle actually worked out. 8 was bad, trying to be a touchscreen OS, and then 8.1 was a band-aid instead of a real fix, and everything since WIndows 10 has been a deliberate disaster. 'We're gonna screenshot your desktop every few seconds because--' Die.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

This is not ‘things were better when you were fifteen.’

It absolutely is rose-colored glasses, whether you realize it or not. This entire thread is.

I think people were just relieved to have a viable upgrade path from XP that wasn't Vista.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I would be using Windows 7 right now if internet security wasn't a thing. I only gave it up in late 2020. There's still features in Linux Mint that don't work the way I want, because I want them to work like they do in Windows 7.

[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Windows 2000 was peak. XP and 7 were warmed up leftovers in comparison

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The whole NT line is crap.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Consumer Windows was just a GUI on top of DOS. NT-based Windows is objectively better than DOS-based Windows. Though both are still equivalent to a pair of brain cells fighting for third place.

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NT cleaned up the 2 routes windows was taking and recombined them. If they hadn't then the consumer windows would have been a lot worse now than it already is. Dave's Garage/Dave's Attic, the guy who wrote task manager, explained how the consumer windows was worse than a hot mess until they were brought back into the corporate branch.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 58 minutes ago

Windows ME is the ultimate argument that 9x was unsalvageable.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

tbh XP or 2K was much better. 7 got rid of accelerated classic theme, so the whole experience was laggy when not using Aero. accelerated aero desktops are cool but there's a noticeable delay.

[–] opi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I feel like Windows 2000 was peak. Best UI, no spyware, fast... Yeah, it was great