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    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Win10 compared to straight win8 (not 8.1 or whatever it was that fixed 8) is far superior in some ways. I get people don't like either (I'm a dedicated win8 hater myself), but I would gladly take the win10 UI any day over the horrible failed experiment that was whatever the whole "Everything As An App! No Start Menu!" bullshit they tried in 8. Having your start menu replaced by a full screen app list is the absolute dumbest thing ever and I am so glad we've moved on from that dark age.

    Also, what was so bad about Vista? I may have some rose tinted glasses, but I don't remember it being that bad

    [–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Vista was extremely laggy

    Most of win7 was just "vista but when you click on something, something actually happens"

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    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Wasn't 98 the precursor to ME? I thought 2000 was the server version (or something like that)?

    2000 was the first Windows with an NT kernel that was really usable on the desktop. Some may argue NT 4 but in 2000 almost everything worked as expected. XP was clearly better of course.

    But you're right - ME was actually a successor to 98 and XP was the joint successor to 2000 and ME.

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    [–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

    Linux is fun! I installed mint ln, everything went well except my wifi wasn't working, spent a while downloading drivers, installing them, turns out I just had the wifi pw wrong. How embarass 🫒

    [–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    time just startend standing still for Windows after 10

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    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's not completely true, in Linux there are many points where old software sucks and new software isn't ready for mass adoption. Like when everyone knew x11 was deprecated but nothing supported Wayland (to this day major WMs like cinnamon and xfce still haven't switched over and most small wms never will). It gets better over time but there are dips in quality and Linux devs do sometimes make mistakes.

    [–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

    True, Linux is both the best and the worst at the same time.

    The Base OS is great, but the apps are mostly terrible, with a few notable exceptions.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    A lot of stuff has Wayland support in the works or is totally getting replaced by something better.

    It wouldn't make any sense to try to modify small Window managers as you would end up replacing pretty much all the code.

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    [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 7 months ago

    Linux isn't an upward curve, either. It mostly is, but those krackle-pops have to put a dent in the curve.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I liked Vista (I was never a RAM peasant & I liked the glass theme) and hated XP.

    I was also always sad how Me was brutally sodomised by shitty third party drivers (who just renamed 98 drives).

    I considered W8 and 11 just as mediocre moneygrabs or maybe a marketing stunt.

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