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I thought 10 was a decent OS once debloated, used it for a while.
Back to Linux now though.
At least you can despyware 10…
Why should you need to? That’s my beef with it. It means they don’t respect you enough to give you something good in the first place and hope 99% won’t bother.
I miss windows millennium, which would be a hammer made of a turd.
The plain old basic hammer probably should have been Windows 2000, and then a big playskool plastic stuff slapped on for XP, but ultimately pretty much exactly the same.
I use arch BTW. But I liked XP and 7.
You forgot windows me.
I know it would throw off the whole 9 square thing but if you (or the person that created this) decide to add it then might I recommend a hammer smashing itself into pieces?
And windows 95.
Oh shit.
I didn’t even notice.
First I forgot about Dre and now I forgot about windows 95. Smh my head.
Isn’t that what the entire thing is balanced precariously on top of? So it’s not absent from the meme, it’s lurking in the background, ever-present.
Windows actually migrated to the NT kernel when XP launched - AFAIK, ME was a dead end.
I’ll take both of your words for it since the only I know about windows me is that it fucking crashed catastrophically all the fucking time.
I think Win10 started like that, but with time parts fell off until you were left with something shaped like a hammer.
Windows 98 still had DOS built in right? I kind of have an itch to install it in a vm or something.
And Windows ME, though they made odd efforts to try to hide this shameful fact.
yeah both windows 95 and 98 were just built on top of dos
Yea, I can never forget this logo
Flashbacks
Most of windows products get increasingly worse over time. Security updates aside, I’ve never understood why the didn’t just stop updating things to save themselves the money and save us the hassle.
Windows 8 was actually great after the initial issues at launch.
Windows peaked at 7, I only moved to Windows 10 when Windows 7 lost support
Windows peaked at DOS. It was small, inoffensive, and easily killed.
That’s mostly due to your age. Older people say it peaked at XP, younger people are saying it peaked at 10. Truth is, they’re all kinda the same shit.
I think it’s a hard case to make that 7 wasn’t objectively better than XP.
Windows 10 did roll back some of the more egregious stuff from Windows 8, but still was sort of committed, sort of not. You had a platform with multiple personalities, multiple right click context menus, multiple ‘control panel’ with a new one being emphasized, but not actually completed, so it’s an awkward mix of the platform they had suceeded with and a platform they wished it could be (combined with telemetry). Forced microsoft accounts and using the desktop as a platform to promote products and services…
Yeah I think a fair argument can be made that WIndows 7 was the ultimate execution of the general vision that started with Windows NT, and what came after was something else that also happened to have bits of that original product hanging on.
I’m not too terribly excited by any Windows in particular, but I can recognize something categorically different they wanted to do starting with 8 that remains partially executed to this day, starts to emphasize Microsoft’s interests at the expense of the users, and a direction that no one really asked for.
Is it though? From a privacy perspective I think Windows 10 quite clearly started introducing some shady surveillance practices which were absent in earlier versions. Of course, 11 took that waaay further, but 10 was a turning point imo.
95, 98, xp, and 7 were all great; each improved on the last. But 7 was the true peak. 10 was pretty good and unfortunately was the turning point into enshitification.
Do not make me find the pic of The Dude.
I might be slowly turning into Jeff Bridges.
Edit: missed the joke. My opinions about windows are grounded in my own experience, obviously. I’m the ‘wait for the first SP’ person historically. 10 was the first time I was not excited to install a new operating system. Everything was behind shitty UI that took away simple functionality. Funny enough I’d go back to it over 11 lol.
Nah, best (or more accurately: least crappy) Windows version was Windows 2000. Everything got bloated and too consumery after that.
Oh how I wish we could just go back to W7 :(
In a way you can. Install ZorinOS or Linux Mint. Add WINE, and you can set wine to “emulate” an version of Windows. I was using it to run some old engineering program and WinAmp
As a programmer, my world changed when Windows 95 came out, what with being 32-bit and having an extremely powerful (if difficult-to-use at first) low-level audio API, since I mainly wrote software synthesis and music composition apps. I have not given two fucks for anything that has happened since 95. Quite amazingly, that audio API has remained in existence, unchanged, all the way until today. 30 years of not having to change what I’m doing at all has been absolutely amazing. That shit even worked, without modification, for Windows CE (Compact Edition) and Windows Mobile, so I was able to make versions of my software synthesizer that ran on shitty smartphones from 2005. It worked on Windows Phone as well, albeit it quite uselessly.
I’ve got Windows installed on a separate drive in case I wanna play Forza Horizon 5 (which I stupidly bought on Microsoft store because stepdad had an Xbox at the time and it was nice to be able to play on that as well when I was visiting - now even he moved to PS5). I haven’t booted it in over half a year despite missing the game at times. If it was Windows 7, I’d probably boot every now and then.
At this point I’ve forgotten if I have Windows 10 or 11. Chances are I did some enterprise version of one of them to get longer support, as I did the OS install like 8 or 9 months ago.
What about Windows ME? - the best version of classic windows.
Windows ME was one of those squeaky toy hammers.
Or a jack-in-the-box. You crank the lever hoping it’ll work this time around, and *BLAM*: BSOD.
It’s just a bottle of whiskey
I remember when we were a Unix shop (BSD & Linux) sharing space with guys writing code for some kind of printing software (for professional printing shops that did complex format conversions) that apparently absolutely had to be on Windows (because, unclear reasons, nobody would buy a non Windows printing management box, or something).
Anyway, they were writing for one of the early versions of NT, maybe 2000, not sure, and were pulling their hairs out the whole time we were with them.
A classic I remember was “the system will just decide that our driver (pretty much the only thing running) isn’t that important, and dump it’s priority to the shitter. Once it’s there, it’s dead in the water and we can’t get it active again without physical intervention. We’ve been talking to Microsoft for weeks to get around this.”
I suppose this has been more or less addressed by Microsoft nowadays, but, of course, this kind of thing hasn’t been an issue in unixland, like ever. Because it’s a system that fucking makes sense. And about the versions of Windows, I stopped using their stuff in the DOS days, so it’s not like I even have an opinion.
(and yes, they did have a couple very high end developers, on top of the regular grunts)
I actually really liked NT around 2000. I think it was NT 4.0? We used it for a typing class I took at the local college. That was just as an end user for one single program, but I remember liking it a lot.
Was CUPS around back then? I assume that was a trillion times easier to manage than whatever Microsoft had concocted.
This is why I am on linux.
Where the fuck is Windows 2000 Advanced Server? The shiniest turd of them all
Excuse me say what? 2000 was a huge leap forward for reliability, uptime and Active Directory, blew the doors off every version before it, home and commercial.
Was it still Windows? I did say shiniest.
