95 wasn’t bad. 98 had some bugs and they quickly released 98SE, which was great and then they released the soggy turd of windows Millennium.
That was their disaster year. Windows ME, released just 2 years after 98 in 2000, and written out of existence just one year later by Windows XP.
Windows XP… such expressive, truly material-like, design, only Vista comes close. But XP ran so much better.
Vista is the OS that taught me the desktop compositor is capable of destroying game performance and latency
Vista was truly the greatest Windows I’ve ever used. I had been using 98 and XP when I bought my first Laptop (the first computer that was truly mine that I had bought with my own money) and it was running Vista of course. Being a curious computer user I twiddled with the system a lot and it broke A LOT so I learned fixing (or reinstalling it) eventually I figured out that Windows only lets you get so far in twiddling and customization so I tried out that hacker OS Linux with a dual boot at first and eventually switching completely. Haven’t run Windows as a daily driver since ~2011-12 now working as a Linux Sysadmin. All thanks to that stupid piece of shit Vista :)
Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone’s rig.
Windows 11
I’m certain my productivity at work dropped significantly because of this fucking upgrade. It’s slow as molasses, at times unstable and 50% of the time I send the laptop to “hibernate,” both it and me wake up to yet another update cycle, meaning it did a completely unwanted hard restart and my unsaved work has been lost without a warning. Crazy my company is paying for that shit.
I had windows 10 do that while hibernating as well, so that part isn’t new. Windows is just a prick.
what’s wrong with gui for home computers?
Windows is the real tragedy
Can someone explain?
Hiroshima was a man-made disaster that happened in 1945.
Chernobyl was a man-made disaster that happened in 1986.
And now generalise for the punchline.
I got it, I did the math and figured it out Windows 95 is man-made disaster that happens in 2027!
Windows versions:
1
2
3
3.1
95
98
2000
ME
XP
Vista
7
8
8.1
9
10
11 (you are here)
12
20
42
90
95 (release date of 2027)
