Self-explanatory, lol 
I use glass windows myself
XP is King.
Vista and 7 suck ass
win10 1709 Build x64 Home Edition is also pretty good (as long as it stays offline)
Vista and 7 suck ass
win10 1709 Build x64 Home Edition is also pretty good (as long as it stays offline)
I have Linux on my laptop and I have a Chromebook.
but back in the day I used to install windows 2000 on everything.
but back in the day I used to install windows 2000 on everything.
I have only used 10 and 11. and 10 was the best one imo
To me 10 was much better than 7 any day. 2017-2021 range specially
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Yeah I use Linux too at the moment.
I find Windows 10 and 11 a real pain.
I really liked 7 and even 8.1 though.
XP was the best, 2nd best is now 10, 3rd best was 8.1. 7 was highly overrated and as bad as Vista.
I like 10
7 looked the best and was the easiest to use.
Windows should have kept that look moving forward but the corrupt dumb fucks at Microsoft keep finding new ways to make Windows worse.
Windows should have kept that look moving forward but the corrupt dumb fucks at Microsoft keep finding new ways to make Windows worse.
A surprisingly high amount of support for 10 and surprisingly low for 11.
I thought they were about the same and both bad, lol
I guess I was aware though that 11... looked somewhat worse at least to me.
Surprising that classic Windows (7 and earlier I suppose) doesn't have more love but I guess the membership here tend to be younger which surely must skew it at least a bit.
I thought they were about the same and both bad, lol
I guess I was aware though that 11... looked somewhat worse at least to me.
Surprising that classic Windows (7 and earlier I suppose) doesn't have more love but I guess the membership here tend to be younger which surely must skew it at least a bit.
I can see there being a big issue when the support for 10 ends if MS don't make some changes!
Vista because everyone seems to hate it - something I can empathise with.
what do you run? i usually use ubuntu but rn i have mint
I think it's fine. A bit buggy but other than that fine.
8 was unintuitive to use on a desktop, but 8.1 was pretty good.
Me was apparently really buggy.
Mint MATE. I like it!
What desktop do you use?
All my homies are XP
whatever the default is. Gnome probably?
I'm just a fan of the bash shell
actually I had windows 10 at one point with the Linux subsystem in it that had a bash shell that wasn't too bad.
yes
XP doesn’t have the search bar, which 7 introduced. 7 is the best aesthetically and functionally. 10 is bloated trash and I will comment on 11 when I build a new PC
7, fuck windows 10 and 11
i only used XP, 8.1 and windows 10
Cinnamon is the default I think which is built on Gnome 3.
MATE is built on Gnome 2 and XFCE (the third official option)... hm. It's a lightweight desktop that I don't think is based on any other.
What do you mean by a Linux subsystem? The only way I know to run Windows on Linux is with a virtual machine.
I wish I understood this, lol
Possibly my confusion is because I've only been awake for 10 minutes idk!
That's brave of you to try 11 when you disliked 10 so much!
And yeah I felt that 10 was doing a lot more under the hood too. I think if you installed 7, 8.1 and 10 on the same low spec hardware then the biggest performance difference would be 10 running significantly slower.
And 11 wouldn't run at all!
For me, part of the fun is figuring it out. troubleshooting, and doing things that Microsoft wouldn't want you to (like debloating and optimizing it) tbh lol. It's why I have it on my main machine and I only use Linux on my laptop.
Hm, I see what you mean.
I just got a bit tired of every new version of Windows being an even bigger project just to get it running normally.
They're a strange company!
XP, if I could still use it for games and functionality with new hardware, I would be.
Yeah this is a reason I like using the MATE desktop.
It's basically Gnome 2 and I've been using that on and off since something like 2005.
It's nice to know that the desktop is static. Even if I update Linux Mint, MATE will probably remain 95% unchanged.
D
Just used 11 till now
Now I think about it... I did use Windows 10 for ages XD
I was on 7 or 8.1 from 2009 I think up until late 2020, then I ended up on 10 until... something like summer last year.
So I was on 10 for almost 4 years.
I remember it being... tolerable if I tweaked it a fair bit. But I felt it was a significant downgrade from 7 and 8.1.
When my hard disk died I considered installing 10 again but... I knew it was nearing the end of its support and I didn't think it was that great anyway, and I knew that Microsoft seemed to be taking Windows in a worse and worse direction.
So I guess I took the opportunity to jump ship, lol
I was on 7 or 8.1 from 2009 I think up until late 2020, then I ended up on 10 until... something like summer last year.
So I was on 10 for almost 4 years.
I remember it being... tolerable if I tweaked it a fair bit. But I felt it was a significant downgrade from 7 and 8.1.
When my hard disk died I considered installing 10 again but... I knew it was nearing the end of its support and I didn't think it was that great anyway, and I knew that Microsoft seemed to be taking Windows in a worse and worse direction.
So I guess I took the opportunity to jump ship, lol
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I wish vendors provides Windows 7 drivers for modern hardware.
Windows XP master race. 7 wasn't bad either
I got Windows 10 at release, and that's been nearly 10 years now. Shit, time flies.
Now I think about it I didn't update 10 once.
It had 20H2 on it when I bought it and it still had 20H2 on it when my hard disk died lol
I guess that was an issue too because it meant I had no idea how many of the Windows 11 "features" also now applied to 10.
Yah it's been a while!
How long do you think you'll stay on it? As I know it doesn't have that much longer to go.
It had 20H2 on it when I bought it and it still had 20H2 on it when my hard disk died lol
I guess that was an issue too because it meant I had no idea how many of the Windows 11 "features" also now applied to 10.
Yah it's been a while!
How long do you think you'll stay on it? As I know it doesn't have that much longer to go.
Window 98
As long as games run on W10, or if using the web becomes a pain which would probably come far later. I don't care about security updates and such.
For Windows 7, there's was a bug in system32 that can let you gain administrative access to the computer.
Ah but did it happen to you?
Yeah I wonder how long that will be. Maybe 2027.
No but it happened to my high school library computers
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No but it happened to my high school library computers
I just feel like a lot of these fears are hypotheticals primarily.
As long as you have common sense when you use the computer.
Classic!
It was pretty good tbh.
Install WSL
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux with the command, wsl --install. Use a Bash terminal on your Windows machine run by your preferred Linux distribution - Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Kali, Fedora, Pengwin, Alpine, and more are available.
learn.microsoft.com
you have to "install" it, but it works out pretty well. no VM or dual boot needed.
Install WSL
Install Windows Subsystem for Linux with the command, wsl --install. Use a Bash terminal on your Windows machine run by your preferred Linux distribution - Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Kali, Fedora, Pengwin, Alpine, and more are available.learn.microsoft.com
you have to "install" it, but it works out pretty well. no VM or dual boot needed.
Oh cool OK ^^
I thought you mean the other way around lol
It doesn't surprise me too much that Linux is flexible enough to work in all kinds of unusual ways ^_^
I meant that everyone hates Windows Vista, and everyone hates me too. Ergo, I like Windows Vista because it reminds me of myself (in a weird way).
Well 7 was the first i had and it was the least annoying
win 10 as long as it doesn't get in the way is quite usable
Windows 7 is pretty nostalgic for me.
The family laptop ran it and I remember discovering Roblox on it when I was like 6-7 years old; good times.
The family laptop ran it and I remember discovering Roblox on it when I was like 6-7 years old; good times.
ya its pretty cool. a VM is def the only way to run windows in Linux. vms are so heavy though, I don't like them.
I did find that with some tweaks here and there I could make it mostly leave me alone.
I think the biggest issue is that MS seem intent on going down this route of making Windows more and more restrictive and controlling.
More and more like your PC is just a terminal for their services and less like your own computer.
So... hm. Hopefully that will change but I don't see any major signs of it at the moment.
i just use winutil on every install, worked well so far. And yet, some "features" cannot be removed completely, like this crappy news feed in the task bar
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