10 introduced a bunch of cool stuff that made it seem like it was going places: WSL, the new terminal, multiple desktops. If you’re able to ignore the sad state of the control panel and settings apps, 10 was peak windows experience (feature-wise).
Then 11 came around and fucked everything up. As someone who subscribed to MD Insider to run beta builds of windows and get updates earlier, win 11 was the first iteration that really felt like there was just no upside to it. It was exactly the same as win10, but with some features removed and a much heavier hardware requirement. Even Vista had some cool stuff going for it back in the day, but win11 was nothing but one disappointment after another. Shit it wouldn’t even let you keep a clock on the second screen until like a year after release.
mholiv@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What? Windows 7 was probably the best version of windows ever.
Windows 8 was where the cliff was.
People look back at XP through rose tinted glasses. It was incredibly insecure in every way. Vista made the security architecture changes needed. Windows 7 was polish on top.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
XP was just 2000 with a teletubby desktop. I absolutely hated it.
nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
you take that back!
Bliss is beautiful >:c
TheFerrango@lemmings.world 2 months ago
They’re right though, XP’s Luna was garbage.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Whatever Windows you matured with is the best Windows.
Except ME. We don’t talk about that one…
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So, DOS?
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
DOS isn’t Windows. Consumer versions of Windows ran on top of DOS until XP was released in 2001.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Prolly, I don’t really remember tbh.
mholiv@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That makes sense. Lol.