Windows 10 arguably became passable for stability about 3 years after release… but you still had to cut out the advertising bloat, spyware, and all which undermined any gains of stability because that shit was just fucking annoying.
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sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours agoWindows 7 was arguably the last OS they ever made.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
lime@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
wasn’t advertised as such though
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This line of thought goes all the way back to NT, and even then IBM would have some comments.
DOS was the last one they built, and they made a really decent GUI for it before they switched to NT.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
And they still haven’t even finished making PowerShell anywhere near as functional as Bash or any other Linux shell environment.
I don’t outright hate PowerShell but it’s clearly a hacky afterthought after realizing Linux was eating their lunch in the server space via quick rollouts to thousands of computers at once through Bash scripting.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I find PS pretty great. Probably the best improvement to Windows since going 32-bit.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
For sure, it’s a vast improvement, but there’s still so much you can’t do with it.