Could have been worse, he could have installed Vista
8 was worse. At least Vista looked like Windows instead of being some weird phone OS hybrid where I couldn’t find anything until I installed a third-party start menu. A start menu!
Vista with updates was also shockingly stable. 7 on launch was really just Vista with a new taskbar skin.
Found the Win Me fan.
it stops being punishment if you ask for permission every few seconds
Not even close. Vista wasn’t a straight-up middle finger to desktop users. Well, not by M$ standards anyway.
We’re going to die!
Vista
We are going to die!
Shouldn’t that be 11?
I always thought there’s a line people draw when they do bdsm so the fun doesn’t become torture.
You just crossed it using a 6m pole in order to land as far as possible from the line.
Windows ME
Absolutely the worst from a power user perspective
BSOD
BSODS&M
What about Windows ME?
Too dangerous. No safe word can save you from windows ME.
You’ll blue screen and you’ll like it!
The safe word is <This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down>
NOOOO, WHAT’S THE SAFE WORD?!
Could have been Gentoo.
If she’s unrepentant, she’d get Windows Me
Not even the worst Windows
This post is so old that the first time I saw it Windows 8.1 was still rolling out
Windows 8 was pretty bad, but you could at least still use desktop mode just fine with a quick settings fix.
Fucking windows 11 took top, left, and right taskbar from us and then locked all the threads asking for it back, and prevented the registry hack to at least get top taskbar back.
Windows 8 was fine
I’m holding out on my work laptop until they force me to “upgrade”
Classic Moss!
PINEAPPLE PINEAPPLE PINEAPPLE PINEAPPLE
I read it in Ayoade’s voice lol
8 was at least an attempt to try to make things better for home users and get away from win32 cruff.
Like or hate the exact approach they took, you have to admire the spirit.
10 and 11 has been Microsoft saying “fuck em. They won’t ever be happy steal everything you can while they’re still here.”
I don’t think Windows will ever fully escape Win32 cruft. One of the major features of Windows is backwards compatibility.
Could be worse; could be Vista, 7, 10, 11,
At least 8/8.1 had a good UI
Metro UI? 🤮
Vista really really sucked by Microsoft’ standards
If they did the 11 thing where old hardware can’t use it then it wouldn’t be any worse than 7
Windows ME.
ME was a king compared to anything microshit makes these days
ME was an eldritch abomination of cobbled together dos and nt architecture that should have never been.
