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I think Windows peaked with 7. The last time that you felt like the upgrade was worth it or at least not a step backwards.
This is exactly right. I suffered through vista, loved the hell out of 7, and right as 8 came out, someone offered me an iMac for cheap. Started learning OS X and when 8 came out and I saw what was going on, I never went back.
I'm almost at the point where if my company gets me a high-end subscription to an AI system, I'm just gonna backport all of the security updates to 7 and start rocking it again.
Agree although I loved XP. 10 wasn't terrible in the end, and 11 is a shit show
My big gripe with windows 10 is them putting half of settings in the Settings app but you still need to dig out the legacy control panel for stupid shit like audio device management that makes sense.
Ya and it gets even worse on windows 11. I still pull up settings menus with windows+r and the command lmao. For example instead of 45 clicks to change an IP address, I just type ncpa.cpl in the run box and hit enter. Way faster.
I recall in the early 2000s my web master mentor told me you should be able to get to any page on a site in 3 or 4 clicks...
Seems like a good standard for any UI design. 3 or 4 steps to get anywhere.
Its literally a dozen steps to get to some settings in windows.
Windows 11 is great, it's getting a lot of people to embrace Linux
This is true. And valve is great too, the two big camps for not trying Linux are gamers and those that use things like MS office and adobe products. But most people who use word and excel have no idea that likely 100% of what they do is easily possible in libreoffice
I converted their old PCs to Linux when my elderly parents' Windows 10 computers started to get ridiculous slow. They both learned Libreoffice Calc in 1.5 months. I did not teach them, they know more about how Calc works than I do now, lol.
I've trouble getting friends and family to move to Libreoffice. I've been using it for about a decade now but having tried Euro-Office (OnlyOffice fork), I think I finally get it. Libreoffice could really do with a visual upgrade
You know about artcraft? The new vibe coded adobe suite clone? Someone needs to claud MS office lol
Just Claude a Windows 97 at this point, for funsies. Lol
10 was ugly IMO and it turned the anti-consumer bullshit up to 11
I will say that 7 lacks the cool retro flavor that XP had, but maybe that's just because lots of Linux UI looks about as old as 7 (Cinnamon being the biggest "offender").
Yeah, I was going to say 7 as well.
They could have peaked with 10, but decided to make it spyware instead.
Even without the spyware aspect, 10's design is ugly and the UX has severe issues...
People said the same about XP when Windows 7 came out.
And they will say the same about Windows 10 when Windows 12 comes out.
It all depends on the Windows version you are most familiar with.
I never heard anyone say that. Windows 7 was generally well regarded as soon as it came out.
No=one said that of Windows 8 though...