• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago
    • Windows 95: Good
    • Windows 98: Bad
    • Windows 98 SE: Good
    • Windows ME: Bad
    • Windows XP: Good
    • Windows Vista: Bad
    • Windows 7: Good
    • Windows 8: Bad
    • Windows 10: Good
    • Windows 11: ?

    Why are people still surprised?

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      XP fucking sucked. It wasn’t good until service pack 3.

      You skipped 8.1 which was the good version that fixed the stuff that sucked about 8. It’s existence is almost completely forgotten.

      Then Windows 10 came out and it was bad.

      They then had about a 10 different OS builds that all had the Windows 10 name instead of giving each build a new name or calling them service packs. The OS that exists now (22h2) has almost nothing in common with the OS that came out in 2015.

      Windows 11 has also had several major leaps since that name started. What’s current (23h2) is much much different than the OS that came out in 2021.

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        Windows 2000 is also missing and was probably the last time Microsoft put out an OS that was good from the start rather than sucking on release.

        Also the ones listed as bad from Vista onwards simply never got the improvements.

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          Vista was actually shockingly solid by the end. 7 on release was essentially just Vista Service Pack 3 with a new taskbar skin, because Vista was completely unmarketable by that point and nobody could be convinced to jump to Vista anymore.

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          Win2K was the last version of Windows I liked. By 2007 I’d had enough of their shit and moved to Linux. Each and every year since then has validated that choice, as desktop Linux has improved and Windows has enshittified further and further.

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        I agree with everything you write, but I’ll also add an unpopular opinion as someone who tested the beta version of Vista and hated it: Vista x64 SP2 was a good OS, which solved most of the issues that existed with the OS.

        And into this day, it’s the most beautiful Windows UI, at least for me.

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      You’re missing Windows 2000, but I guess you can argue that’s Windows NT not mainline Windows. That was definitely in the good camp, and I was not alone in sticking with it for many years (until XP got good).

      Edit: I see @[email protected] beat me to this point.

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      Windows 10: Good

      People keep repeating that but it’s by far the worst and actually the one that made me bail. What is it that good about it that made it worth sacrificing user choice, privacy, performance, latency, search, startup time, solitaire, and much more?

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      1 year ago
      Windows 95: Good
      Windows 98: Bad
      Windows 98 SE: Good
      Windows ME: Bad
      Windows XP: ~~Good~~ **GOAT**
      Windows Vista: Bad
      Windows 7: Good
      Windows 8: Bad
      Windows 10: Good
      Windows 11: ?
      

      Fixed it for you, thanks!

      Edit: strikeout not working as expected…