I think Windows peaked with 7. The last time that you felt like the upgrade was worth it or at least not a step backwards.
This is exactly right. I suffered through vista, loved the hell out of 7, and right as 8 came out, someone offered me an iMac for cheap. Started learning OS X and when 8 came out and I saw what was going on, I never went back.
They could have peaked with 10, but decided to make it spyware instead.
Even without the spyware aspect, 10’s design is ugly and the UX has severe issues…
Agree although I loved XP. 10 wasn’t terrible in the end, and 11 is a shit show
Windows 11 is great, it’s getting a lot of people to embrace Linux
This is true. And valve is great too, the two big camps for not trying Linux are gamers and those that use things like MS office and adobe products. But most people who use word and excel have no idea that likely 100% of what they do is easily possible in libreoffice
10 was ugly IMO and it turned the anti-consumer bullshit up to 11
I will say that 7 lacks the cool retro flavor that XP had, but maybe that’s just because lots of Linux UI looks about as old as 7 (Cinnamon being the biggest “offender”).
Yeah, I was going to say 7 as well.
People said the same about XP when Windows 7 came out.
And they will say the same about Windows 10 when Windows 12 comes out.
It all depends on the Windows version you are most familiar with.
No=one said that of Windows 8 though…
Why is this the Windows 95 logo with the XP name photoshopped in?
It was made by an LLM running on Windows ME.
Cut AI some slack. /jj
But damn, people did hold onto Win XP SP3 because Vista was shit and 7, just like 10, had very rough starts.
And fuck 11. The first time a computer’s OS had Intel Inside.
Intel inside
Now, with 10% communism.
More like corporate welfare. Windows 10 was touted as just going to be called Windows, no more versions persè as it would be just an agile rolling release.
Then Intel was like, “these peeps are using 24 year old computers and slapping SSDs in them… we need to do something to get people to buy computers, Micro$lop.”
And they replied with Windows 11, which forced people to buy new Intel hardware, slapped a new UI that is buggy and gross, threw in copilot, and it takes a ton of registry edits to make the damn thing usable for me.
Anout to go back to BSD or just say, “fuck technology” and become an electrician.
Why XP and not 2000?
NT and Windows 7…things just worked.
Yeah, 2000 was everything good about xp without the bad.
Its the last version of windows I ran at home.
Sadly family and work require me to be familiar with what microsoft has released since then
CEMENT
DAS CONK CREET BAYBEE
Like Ubuntu 8.04, canonical with their attempts to make an apple inspired walled garden have mucked it all up. I want Debian but better but not with too much extra. Ubuntu was this ultimate nexus of Linux for a moment but now it’s gone. Now Fedora is the runner up.
Debian solved all past pain points, now they are legit better than Ubuntu LTS in most ways that matter & are equal in user friendliness.
I was a life long windows guy up until I switched to nobara linux in january this year. I’ve tried linux now and again in the past but WINE just didn’t work well enough or it didn’t support hardware I was using or I couldn’t do something I wanted to do. Well Nobara installs all my Steam games perfect. Proton and WINE work flawless. All my games work. It supports all my hardware. I can customize everything exactly the way I want. It is IMO the first linux distro that is functionally better than Windows. I know that might piss off some lifelong linux users but it was the distro that made me switch.
Nah Linux is about freedom. When you distro hop enough you’ll see the differences between the major distros are mainly subjective. Nobara had a specific goal and they’ve done a really good job of achieving it so I got nothing but respect for that team. People get persnickety but that’s just people being lame. I’m not personally married to any distro. Right now rocking Fedora but may switch back to arch when I get another machine or feel like doing a fresh install.
Same deal for Zorin, not what I would personally run but I appreciate them. Then there’s distros with a very specific use case like tails, puppy Linux, DSL, qubes, Nix, openWRT, and so on and they’re great too. I have a puppy Linux and tails flashdrive.
We still talk about you because some dumb internal applications that were created more than 2 decades ago and nobody dares to update are still running on them, creating awful cybersecurity weaknesses and dragging the entire network down with it.
Probably 10 years ago I encountered a pump on a job. It was huge. 2-3 stories tall. Probably cost millions.
There was a computer plugged into, an old beige tower case and a CRT monitor with RS232 serial cable between it and the pump.
This was the control system, it was connected to the network (airgapped LAN fortunately).
Was running NT4!
I have no idea why it was set up this way, PLCs were definitely the standard at the time and there were older PLCs than that on the site. No one who worked there was around when it was installed, it was just the way it was.
XP was an unmitigated disaster at release it got better tho.
I just overwrote a Windows XP installation with Void Linux last weekend on an old netbook for a family member. But I felt very nostalgic when I booted a real XP system to see what was on it.
I totally changed my KDE themes to be XP-esque, sound themes and all, just to have the good parts I missed, but keep a usable OS haha.
M$ has done and continues to do a lot of terribad things, but XP wasn’t one of them. Computers felt fun back then.
…Minus all the security issues. That’s gotten better with time…
Edit: Oh yeah there’s a subreddit of people modernizing XP and making new drivers for it and stuff LOL
I have weirdly strong nostalgia for Windows 98 but I can’t possibly explain why…
BOWEP
Ahh yes, let’s stack system edits to not be prioritized in memory then written to disk. What’s that, a power outage? Well sucks to be you, reinstall.
