Worst Windows?
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Paul_IPv6replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
wow... that's like "would you prefer toxic waste, nuclear waste, or asbestos".
so many bad choices here... i will say that windows 11 is shaping up to be the privacy and security disaster we're all reminiscing about like this in 5 years.
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Wyatt (π³οΈββ§οΈβ?)replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc WinME sucks, 8 is really bad, but 11 is fucking unusable
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Russ Garrettreplied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland @ryanc I would have said ME but I don't really have enough experience of modern Windows versions to form a complete opinion.
The only version of Windows which I have vaguely fond memories of is NT 4.0.
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Fritz Adalisreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
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Windows 8, because that was the beginning of the end, where users became secondary. -
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Wyatt (π³οΈββ§οΈβ?) last edited by
@wyatt8740 sucks... and blows... at the same time...
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Will Smartreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc Ah yes. Windows ME. All the stability of Windows 95 and all of the hardware compatibility of pre-sp1 Windows 2000.
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@ryanc and while I'm reminiscing, people forget just how bad early Windows XP was. It was not pleasant to use.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Will Smart last edited by
@SmartAsABrick I was doing tech support pre SP2, I will never forget, as much as I'd like to.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@SmartAsABrick in any event, it was still objectively an improvement over ME
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Will Smartreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc PCMCIA wifi (802.11b, of course) card drivers were something I'd forgotten about until just now. I'm going to work hard to forget them again.
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:replied to Will Smart last edited by
@SmartAsABrick My recollection is that USB 802.11b was even worse.
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Chon Torresreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc what about Bob?
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Alesandro Ortiz π΅π·π³οΈβπreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc I'll vote hundreds of times, one for each time it crashed while playing Rollercoaster Tycoon at 2 AM in a dark room, briefly turning the CRT monitor black before blasting my eyes with the BSOD, often with glitchy audio stuck in buffer (IIRC). Scared me every time.
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Will Smartreplied to Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: last edited by
@ryanc the only Windows released this millennium I never daily drove... And I am including Windows CE.
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomialreplied to Russ Garrett last edited by
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland @alyx @ryanc Loved Vista too, however it really was slow as heck. Looked beautiful though, best Windows design in my opinion.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland @russss @ryanc The vote option says Windows 8 though so I go with that. Oh my god was it awful.
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Nazoreplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@Natanox @gsuberland @alyx @ryanc Yeah, a lot of growing pains. Windows 7 was basically Vista 2.0 that fixed all those issues though, so no real point to stick with Vista in that particular regard. Still, as you say, service packs did fix up a lot of the issues. Not all, but a lot.
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@nazokiyoubinbou @Natanox @gsuberland @ryanc A lot of issues with Vista being slow are rooted in machines being underspecced from the get go.