Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now

• Un4tural@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dug out my old win xp eee pc, thing does Windows things faster than my new top spec Dell precision with an ssd… And it’s using 200mb ram with spinning rust from what will be near decade and a half old… The plastic is cracking away from age.

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• Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t help but notice your skipped two very terrible versions in that list:

  ME

  Vista shudders

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    vista was also a good system. the market just tried to push it on people with hardware which was not up to the task. when 7 released, compatible hardware was already in place.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not just hardware, drivers. Driver support was abysmal. On a decent hdd with updated drivers vista was fine.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah because driver were previously allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted with the system and vista introduced a baselevel of security.

        the rollout was a mess, the os really wasn’t. which is a surprise considering the development story.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ll also put Vista’s bad reputation down to that it was the first version with UAC, which if I recall was set too sensitive, combined with the fact that it was something new and weird for most Windows users at the time and the fact that a lot of software didn’t have time to catch up to add proper compability with the system.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        it’s not that it was too sensitive, it was that windows was previously a lawless land where every application had full access to the entire system. you’re bound to get some compatibility issues from that.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is correct, I never used ME and Vista at home so I didn’t think to add them.

    And as other’s have noted, the opinion on Vista is divided.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  7 was peak imo.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only complaint I have of 7 what the thick window borders

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• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  7 was all the average user could ever want. Snappy operations, simple and easy to navigate settings, light memory overhead, and a really nice aesthetic. Too bad we couldn’t just update the backend stuff indefinitely so now we have a bloated, AI fueled privacy nightmare with a shitty bottom middle start menu with Windows 11.

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