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    [–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    95 wasn't bad. 98 had some bugs and they quickly released 98SE, which was great and then they released the soggy turd of windows Millennium.

    That was their disaster year. Windows ME, released just 2 years after 98 in 2000, and written out of existence just one year later by Windows XP.

    [–] F04118F@feddit.nl 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Windows XP... such expressive, truly material-like, design, only Vista comes close. But XP ran so much better.

    [–] loam@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Vista is the OS that taught me the desktop compositor is capable of destroying game performance and latency

    [–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Vista had better features and stuff, but people hated it because it was a huge jump in needing extra resources and any mid tier or lower laptop that came pre-installed with it the first year was underspecced for it, so it ran like turd on those and sucked away gaming performance on everyone's rig.

    [–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

    The changed the driver model and broke compatibility with any device that didn't get updated drivers. Which created a fuck-load of ewaste and unnecessary expenditure as people had to replace otherwise functional devices.

    It also ran like absolute dog-shit even on PC's that exceeded the recommended requirements by fairly significant margins.

    And until Vista SP2 came out, it remained a buggy, broken, mess of an OS.

    Also, given the promises Microsoft made about Project Longhorn (Vista's cancelled predecessor) and the several years worth of delays Vista had Microsoft had no excuse for releasing an OS that was buggy, poorly optimized, and incompatible with most hardware more than two years old. Vista was supposed to release in 2003, it came out in 2007.

    Windows 7 was what Vista should have been and what Windows should have stayed.

    [–] somenonewho@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Vista was truly the greatest Windows I've ever used. I had been using 98 and XP when I bought my first Laptop (the first computer that was truly mine that I had bought with my own money) and it was running Vista of course. Being a curious computer user I twiddled with the system a lot and it broke A LOT so I learned fixing (or reinstalling it) eventually I figured out that Windows only lets you get so far in twiddling and customization so I tried out that hacker OS Linux with a dual boot at first and eventually switching completely. Haven't run Windows as a daily driver since ~2011-12 now working as a Linux Sysadmin. All thanks to that stupid piece of shit Vista :)

    [–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Actually Vista performs on par or better, you just used it on a piece of shit device back in the day and the impression had been with you since

    [–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

    I remember getting a device that came with Vista. I reinstalled Vista on it and it still sucked. I then installed a pirated version of Windows 7 on it; the performance difference was night and day. It's not @TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world's fault that Microsoft is certifying incompatible hardware.

    [–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Vista? What a dumpster fire

    [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
    [–] 10_0@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

    You mean: Windows 9 '11

    [–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

    I'm certain my productivity at work dropped significantly because of this fucking upgrade. It's slow as molasses, at times unstable and 50% of the time I send the laptop to "hibernate," both it and me wake up to yet another update cycle, meaning it did a completely unwanted hard restart and my unsaved work has been lost without a warning. Crazy my company is paying for that shit.

    [–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I had windows 10 do that while hibernating as well, so that part isn't new. Windows is just a prick.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago

    It was buggy and crashed a lot, but at least there was no telemetry.

    [–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Windows 3.1 and 3.11 were amazing. Windows 95 was fine. Windows 98 was much better. Windows ME would make the most sense in this tag’s context, but it’s not a number so 95 is the next best option.

    [–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
    [–] Dpof@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

    Windows is the real tragedy

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 3 weeks ago
    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

    blue screens

    [–] rkk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Hiroshima was a man-made disaster that happened in 1945.

    Chernobyl was a man-made disaster that happened in 1986.

    And now generalise for the punchline.

    [–] evidences@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I got it, I did the math and figured it out Windows 95 is man-made disaster that happens in 2027!

    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Windows versions:

    1
    2
    3
    3.1
    95
    98
    2000
    ME
    XP
    Vista
    7
    8
    8.1
    9
    10
    11 (you are here)
    12
    20
    42
    90
    95 (release date of 2027)

    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

    Oh no, only 3 more years

    [–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

    HEROSHIMA! CHERNOBYL! WINDOWS 95! WE DO IT ONCE, WE DO IT AGAIN!

    [–] kekmacska@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

    what's wrong with gui for home computers?