“Now”
Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now
Submitted 4 hours ago by leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/does_windows_really_suck_that/
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20cello@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
2000 was awesome, XP was great, 7 was fantastic, 8 was a good core with a terrible UI, 10 continued the decline, 11 accelerated it.
Un4tural@lemmy.world 27 minutes 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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour 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.
Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I can’t help but notice your skipped two very terrible versions in that list:
ME
Vista shudders
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Doesn’t matter because majority of users will just complain and not leave.
Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I’d argue that it remembers it very well at all times. MS indicated very clearly that its target audience are non-technical, preferably business users that they can mine for data. Windows fully reflects that, fixing what this dude is talking about is making the product worse
Even if they wanted to pivot, selling a standalone twice a decade is just not going to cut it anymore, you won’t get trillions of dollar in valuations like that.
That’s what Windows will be
foreveruntil they find a more fucked up way yo extract money out of people.