W7 was fine. I cut the cord and went Linux before W10. It sucked for a year, and now I look at the trash they sell and everyone pays actual money for… And I laugh XD.
Everything after w7, id agree. Windows 7 was actually legit. It ran fine on my amd athlon with 512MB ram. Ran dolphin back in the day too.
Now after that it was all shite
No 7 sucked too. It just came off the back of Vista which was a real hot mess, so 7 appeared better.
The thing is, Microsoft has always had an adversarial (or abusive) relationship with its customers, forcing things on them that most of them don’t want. Like active desktop and IE integration in Windows 9x, “activation” and Fisher Price UI in XP, UAC in Vista, forced automatic updates in 7, that awful tile UI in 8.x, telemetry you can’t disable in 10, forced Microsoft accounts in 11 … the list is endless. And then when they back down on one thing, people are like: hurray, Windows is actually good now! … forgetting all the other things they have been forced to swallow in the past.
Yes that’s how they make you swallow the pill. Windows 12 will be “good”, in that it will not be as bad as W11. But it will still move the public into the slaughterhouse a bit more.
Every 2nd microsoft OS is bad. Its normal for them. XP good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad.
I generally agree, but I feel like Windows 8.1 was a vast improvement on 8. It was really more like Windows 9 with a Windows 8 theme.
Sure, it really isn’t hard to be better than Windows 8… That doesn’t make Windows 8.1 good, it just means it’s less bad than Windows 8.
No. They’re all bad, some are just worse than others. You’ve all just been stockholm syndromed into thinking better of the “less bad” ones.
W7 was fine. I cut the cord and went Linux before W10. It sucked for a year, and now I look at the trash they sell and everyone pays actual money for… And I laugh XD.
Everything after w7, id agree. Windows 7 was actually legit. It ran fine on my amd athlon with 512MB ram. Ran dolphin back in the day too. Now after that it was all shite
No 7 sucked too. It just came off the back of Vista which was a real hot mess, so 7 appeared better.
The thing is, Microsoft has always had an adversarial (or abusive) relationship with its customers, forcing things on them that most of them don’t want. Like active desktop and IE integration in Windows 9x, “activation” and Fisher Price UI in XP, UAC in Vista, forced automatic updates in 7, that awful tile UI in 8.x, telemetry you can’t disable in 10, forced Microsoft accounts in 11 … the list is endless. And then when they back down on one thing, people are like: hurray, Windows is actually good now! … forgetting all the other things they have been forced to swallow in the past.
Yes that’s how they make you swallow the pill. Windows 12 will be “good”, in that it will not be as bad as W11. But it will still move the public into the slaughterhouse a bit more.
2000 good. XP gooder.
Actually 2K, ME, XP
2K December 1999, ME June 2000, XP October 2001
So the good bad good is preserved
Fuck the 9x kernel.
If we’re doing that we gotta go back to at least 95 if not 3.1. Are we counting 98se?
Nah. Fuck the 9x kernel.