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MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoI hear your security concerns but what timeline were you living on?
95 was revolutionary but buggy AF NT I didn’t have much to do with 98 was a patch to fix the bugs in 95 98 SE was mostly stable and a decent is, plus USB ME was a piece of shit excuse to something 2000 was decent. XP v1 XP finally made a stable os, because it got rid of the shit we dragged in from 95 Vista was hot garbage 7 fixed vista an imo was the best is MS ever made 8 was more hot garbage because they lost the mobile war 10 was an apology for 8 11 is shareware / adware
Where did you find safe harbour in this shitshow?
I’d argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn’t decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.
Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.
This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.
The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.