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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yup. I feel like people saying XP was the peak is mostly nostalgia.

  You could make barely any UX changes to Win7 and people would still happily use it today. I don’t think the same is quite true for XP.

  To be fair, though, I also have nostalgia for XP. I’ve played a silly amount of Space Cadet Pinball on my steam deck lol

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wouldnt say I have nostalgia for XP itself, but I do look on it fondly, the same reason I look on 98 fondly.

    It was better than its previous OS. More stable, more usable, requiring less reformats to keep it snappy and healthy, etc.

    Which is one of the many reasons why 7 is the peak. Cause you didnt have to regularly reformat 7. It was just that good at managing itself, and its snappiness, that you never had to reformat/refresh the install cause it never got bogged down.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Windows 7 didn’t even have proper driver support, you had to manually install every one of them or your hardware just wouldn’t work.

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• I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Except for the task manager. Windows 8 to Windows 10 had a good one.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d rather use tabletified 8 than 10.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eww

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The task manager in win 8 wouldn’t stay/come on top if there was a frozen program. This would make the new task manager unusable to kill the problem program. And then the half-assed solution of preemptively enabling always on top did not even work reliably. A pretty fundamental issue, which for me far outweighed whatever improvements that new task manager contained.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I never cared about task manager outside of the 5 seconds I it took to kill the occasionally obstinate/frozen program, so as long as it did that much, I didnt care about the rest.

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