Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn’t always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d say Windows 8.1 was the last “good” one (as in B tier good), and Windows 7 was the last great one. Everything went downhill from here.

    And yes, I’m considering Vista as part of the good ones.

    • Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      Truth be told, Vista wasn’t bad, it needed a bit of polish here and there but most importantly, you needed a good PC to run it smoothly.

      • wolfpack86@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        And it was riddled with issues due to lack of 64bit driver support. You could have released 7 instead of vista and ended up with some of the same issues.

        I’ve long thought it was fine and subjected to misplaced ridicule.

        Windows ME, however…