Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

chunes@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thats what I keep saying about Windows 10.

  When it dropped it was fucking amazing. Every last thing just worked and they werent trying to milk us for every last cent or scrap of personal info just yet.

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  • birdcannon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Windows 10 was absolutely not a miracle on launch, it had its own host of problems that got fixed or ‘features’ removed over time. I distinctly remember the indexing and search being completely worthless for the first year. Forums were filled with posters declaring they’d hold onto Windows 7 until their PC crumbled to dust, and then they would finally switch to Linux. Such is the cycle of Windows releases.

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    • TheOakTree@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I also remember Windows 10 being annoying at first, but I think it mostly gets overshadowed by how many issues I had with 8/8.1

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      • Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Maybe I do have some rose tinted glasses because I hated 8 oh so fucking much.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember the Windows 7 launch more vividly. IIRC they released a free public beta before launch. I immediately downloaded and installed it. Light as a feather and it ran like a top, everything worked.

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  • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You did still have to install a third-party app to get the start menu not to take up the whole screen, though

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    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      that’s windows 8

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      • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No i never had windows 8. Unless they retroactively updated windows 7 to go fullscreen it had to be 10

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve had Windows 10 from day 1 and I never had to do such nonsense.

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