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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 20 points 3 days ago

That should be:

People ~~use~~ used windows because it ~~has~~ had decades of backwards compatibility sort of.

Nowadays: it has current compatibility sort of.

Microsoft is a mess now, so it's no surprise that their current Windows version is also a mess.