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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I actually really liked both windows 8 and Vista too.

    8 was slimmed down and optimized vs 7. Bootup time on my HDD equipped machine halved, performance was better, and the search was so good I never actually saw the start menu because I'd just blindly hit enter and it opened what I wanted.

    Vista had a rough start because they basically had to start fresh with drivers. But I bought a nice new machine about a year after it came out and it ran it flawlessly. Aero looked (and still looks) so cool, and XP was just a crusty old OS by then, let alone 2014 when it finally lost support.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Aero looked (and still looks) so cool

    Oof. Hard disagree.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

    That happened with Windows 8 and Vista as well. There was a running joke that every other Windows release was garbage when I was growing up.

    And the joke works with 8 and 10 both being shitty, because they skipped 9, which would have been the good one.

    They really should have gone with Windows Nine, to bring the naming scheme in line with Xbox One while also avoiding the startswith.('Windows 9') issue