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6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Windows sucks more at every new release. Management issues. Prefer developing new shitty features instead of cleaning the bloat. Anything is possible.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
10 was better than 8 IMO
EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.
TheFogan@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
8 I believe was the last in their “tick tock” strategy…
IE “ticks” were the ones where they threw a bunch of stuff at the wall to see what sticks, basically putting users as paying beta testers.
“Tocks” were when they’d basically look at the piles of complaints from their ticks, try and fix as many as they could, and impliment some of the small features people wanted.
Ticks: Win 95, Win ME + 2000, Windows 8.
Tocks: Win 3.1, Win 98, Win XP, Windows 7, "sorta windows 10, hard to really say that model was made to be the start of more or less a auto upgrading by default as the new normal)
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
the ui was dogshit but it was extremely lightweight and fast on my potato with 512mb ram and 60gb ide hdd.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
(and they won’t even talk about 9. they act like it doesn’t exist!)
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They called it 8.1