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Microsoft Windows. Oh boy has it gotten bad.
It was always bad.
Windows 3.1 was bad. It was ugly, it was slow. The Macs of that era looked better, although their multitasking was even worse than Windows, somehow. It was pretty clear that 3.1 was just a desktop GUI over a text OS.
Windows 95 and 98 were bad. They were graphical improvements over 3.1 / NT, but they were so brittle and janky. Remember bullshit like "TEXTFI~1.TXT"?
The latest versions are all terrible too. Like, try to make a change to a system setting and you get the Windows 10/11 themed settings menu. But, if you try to make any kind of advanced setting change and you're taken over to a GUI that shows that under the hood it's still effectively running Windows XP components.
I thought Win 2000 was an improvement. Didn't Win 3.1 literally run on top of DOS? Like, DOS was the actual operating system and Win 3.1 was merely the graphical user interface/desktop environment, so it consumed a bunch more hardware resources? I think I remember having to run many programs out of DOS so that they would run more smoothly than if I used Win 3.1. In that sense, Win 3.1 was really Ski Free, Space Cadet Pinball, Solitaire, Minesweeper, and a nice file manager.
I also liked the improvements of Win Vista, but my laptop couldn't seem to keep up with the requirements needed for things to run smoothly. Win 7 seemed like a smoother Win Vista, so that was nice. However, I felt let down that there were no major noticeable improvements other than performance, which could also have been attributed to improvements in hardware. Around then, I started experimenting with Linux out of sheer curiosity and slowly switched to Linux 100%. In the past several years, I know about Win only from what I hear on Lemmy, so ofc I think it's terrible, but I wouldn't know from personal experience and judgment. I'm happy af with Linux anyway.
Windows 95, 98 and ME were all DOS based.
Windows ME ftw.
Can you clarify? I'm confused as to whether you think Win ME was the best or worst version of Win.
To be fair to the XP days, the OS was a bit of a malware cesspool. Now, MS provide pre-installed corpo malware.
98SE was peak.
In what way? I continue to use Windows 11 just fine.
Must be bliss, mate
Could you expound?
The OS is riddled with ads. How can anyone be okay with ads running at the OS level is beyond me.
The tracking is also getting much much worse, they spy on every fucking thing they can.
Is there a particular edition that's prone to this? I don't see any on my work or personal laptop. Either that or they're so subtle that I don't even see them.
I have never seen an ad using Windows.
I have been using Linux 100% for the past several years without any use of Win. The last time I used Win, it was Win 7 on a work computer. All I know about Win since is from what I see on Lemmy and the very few short instances when I might look at a friend's computer. What I remember not liking about it was a lack of control in comparison to Linux and that it would get slower and slower with updates. Is the latest Win really as bad as Lemmy makes it out to be? Are there ads in the OS? Does it truly spy on you without your knowledge?
I understand there to be telemetry. As I already said, I have never, not once, ever seen an ad using Windows from 95 to 11.
Lemmy is a bunch of Linux users who genuinely don't know how to custom-install Windows without all the bloat
It's bizarre, how the fuck are they managing Linux if they can't even do that?!?
Because they like the idea of doing that and still feeling like they own their computer in every way possible.
It's pretty sad that the best windows experience now, is just breaking it down to pieces and custom installing.
I can do that. In fact, I do that for the only device in my home that still has Windows. But my point is that you don't want to really use a system where you need to do something like debloating the OS after every update.
My days of installing LTSC, ShutUp10, Massgrave, modifying ISOs, unchecking 20 checkboxes during install and installing hosts files are over.
Nowadays I just install Linux and it does what I want without begging for it.
Did ye aye