• Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    People forget XP was pretty bad at first just like Windows 98 and like Windows 98 people became less critical after a bunch of major fixes. For Windows 98 this became Windows 98SE and for XP this became XP SP2 (and eventually 3).

    Both Vista and 7 had problems before they were fixed after awhile. The most common issue I can remember was UAC and everyone just told you to turn it off to install and use their software and games. There were also a bunch of breaking Win API stuff and a lot of software made for XP just didn’t work anymore in Vista+.

    People mainly just remember them after they were fixed, except for Vista because 7 came out fairly quickly (just 2 years later). Microsoft does not have a good track record for initial Windows releases but eventually everyone forgets and even some of the bad ones are remembered as the good ones.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Great meme post! This comment section is a scorching hot dumpster fire that beamed carcinogens directly into my retinas. Thanks I hate it.

  • computerscientistII@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

    Why is Linux on there? What sense does it make to compare a kernel with an entire system?

    Android is Linux. Raspberry OS is Linux. Caldera Open Linux is Linux. Ubuntu is Linux. Debian is Linux. etc.

    My experience: Linux is really good on mobile devices (Android). It is really good for affordable hobby projects (RaspberryOS). There are hardly any alternatives on servers and super computers. On my Laptop and my Desktop PC I prefer Windows. Macs are too expensive and Linux tends to be shit there whenever your hardware is brand new and that’s exactly when you want to install the OS.

  • madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    finally someone realizes windows 8 is better than windows 10

    …these comments don’t seem to share the same opinion

    • M600@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Dude, I am all for people trying and stuff.

      I can tell that you are just starting out in the graph game, and that is cool and all. But compare to OP yours looks terrible. I’m not trying to be mean, I’m just trying to save you from the embarrassment.

      Take another look at OPs graph and pay attendtion to the different thickness in the lines and the unpredictable curves.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 day ago

    I would put win8 lower and win10 as a slight rise but not up to win 7 territory and then plummet. osx should plummet with the iosification of it.

  • GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think 11 is pretty great from a technical standpoint. The only real issue I have is modern standby…I miss having laptops that actually go to sleep and aren’t dead a day later. But that’s a fight I’ve given up on.

    Now…the ads, MS accounts requirements, tracking and telemetry, the pre-installed bloat like News (a glorified clickbait aggregator), Movies and TV, Office, etc. make what is technically fine into a garbage experience.

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Used to be able to create a list of file path shortcuts that are visible when you right click the file explorer icon pinned to the taskbar. The shortcuts I made in a previous version of windows are still present and functional. But it can’t add new ones. Best it can do is add another file explorer icon for each new shortcut.

      You can still drag excel files to an Excel icon pinned to the taskbar, and it adds them to the single list of individual Excel files “pinned” to Excel.

      It just doesn’t let you add shortcuts to the pinned file explorer icon anymore. I had a whole workflow based on being able to quickly and easily access a handful of commonly used folders and ms office files. Makes no sense to remove useful functions that already worked.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.cafeEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Vista was extremely laggy

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

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Saying Windows 10 is worse than Windows 8 is just nonsense. Saying macOS is worse now than 5 years ago is… just dumb? And the colour scheme doesn’t make any sense, why is the red at macOS literally higher than the green?

    • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      ME was the worst. DOS based windows 9x in a world with Win2k and XP launched only 1 year later

      ME Was DOA even if it had been a “flawless” continuation of 98SE

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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        1 day ago

        At the time it released, 99% of my software was DOS-based, and in fact I had 1 game that I distinctly remember (Sonic CD) which only ran on Win9x, and could not run on any version of NT. I had no problems with Me, and kept a copy of it on my main PC until XP SP2.

    • linuxgator@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      In my experience, Me was far worse than Vista, and 8 was more just annoying than anything. Sound cards were nearly impossible to use in Me.