OP is wearing rose colored glasses, yes 10 was better but 10 was a turd in a blanket but you could do workarounds to keep that turd covered, 11 just took the blanket away and exposed the turd … . all the time.
Like Trump accelerating the transition to renewables and e vehicles across the world with his bumbling incompetence, MS is hastening the transition to Linux from theres, i was there from MS DOS days until early 10.
They really just need to use the Linux Kernel and do their own “Windows” skin on top, like Tuxedo etal
i gave up and have been on Linux Mint then LMDE for 4 years now, fucking hell, all i want to do is click the icon on the toolbar and use the app i selected. My gf uses 11 on her laptop.
Use Windows 11 at work. Was using 10 at home. Seeing what my future looked like if I went to 10, I installed CachyOS instead. After 4 months of CachyOS, I’m not going back to Windows even if you pay me.
Windows 2000 was the absolute best windows hands down.
But now it’s cachyos for me going forward. Never again will I install windows.
Amen. I’ve hated every windows OS after Windows 2000.
XP was beast they had to give away free upgrades to get people off it
Leave windows, embrace linux
not everyone know how to sudo su -
And then: extend and extinguish! /s
Moving to the open fields was a so much smoother experience than downgrading the windows.
Lame. Should have gone back to Windows 7.
Broke: Installing Linux
Woke: Installing an older version of Windows
Bespoke: Installing the Apple II OS
BeOs for the win!
I dont miss windows at all.
Going back to Windows 10 feels like removing ankle weights you forgot you were wearing.
Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.
tbh the only problem with Windows 10 for me was the telemetry/Forced Edge,which could’ve been disabled via scripts,as well as lower responsiveness(maybe placebo effect?). but Windows 11, literally some parts of the Operating System use Chromium. Please keep Chromium/Electron/CEF On Desktop apps, i hope other oses wont try to copy this.
Hard disagree. Even though it’s initial outing was not the smoothest Windows 10 eventually got there and they made many improvements on Windows 7. So much so that it ran quite well for many many years which is why it was so widely adopted.
Quite frankly it’s my belief that the reason they force implemented Windows 11 was because Windows 10 was running so fucking well that they were seeing zero growth in their OS sales cause no one was needing to upgrade anymore. I myself had Windows 10 running on a machine that was over 15 years old. And it ran quite well.
8.1 ftw, 8 was awful and so 8.1 names got dragged through the mud but it launches stuff and loads stuff faster, plus it has better battery life. There’s a video out there that shows most the windows OSs doing stuff side by side and it consistently sweepes them.
Windows 10 was fine until they started trying to patch all the ways to avoid using a Microsoft account. Windows 11 is horrendously worse.
My work laptop, a Surface Laptop 7th gen, runs Windows 11. Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.
Just because 11 is worse doesn’t mean 10 was good. 10 was a shit-show from the get-go. It came with aggressive dark patterns trying to trick people into installing it over their Win 7 and 8 machines, came with mandatory telemetry, ads in the start menu and a built-in keylogger.
So it’s not “fuck 11”. It’s “fuck Windows”.
Adobe Acrobat will grind it to a halt. Fucking how.
“Today Microsoft and Adobe are announcing further AI integration of their products. This AI will tune software performance in an attempt to counteract the slowing effects of previous rounds of AI integration.”
god i hate the constant “LOG INTO AN ACCOUNT RIGHT NOW” with passion. i once had to log into a coworkers teams account and apparently windows decided that’s good enough and automatically & without asking linked my entire local windows account with her work microsoft account
one log in took hours to undo
learnt my lesson - never log into microsoft through any of their apps, only ever use web based alternatives (and never on your main browser either, as sometimes logging out is just as painful as logging in)
Ah don’t worry, leave it running for an hour and they’ll inject copilot and all the crap you’ve come to loathe.
Of course opening the context menu takes its time. It’s gotta load a whole Electron framework first.
you just need a registry cleaner for that, dump out all the non-stock entries out of the list.
It should cache those until your file extensions get a reg edit, there is no need to build the context menu fresh every time
Ohh no, it’s not that it’s building the menu.
Each one of those extra lines is a hook to a dll.
rightclick potato.jpg
imagemagic: what options should i give for potato.jpg loads image enough of imagemagic to tell antivirus: what options should i give potato.jpg loads enough of antivirus to tell
Now if your apps are small or the context menu for them is will done, it’s hardly a blip But if you installed 27 different apps that want to be in the context menu and they’re all 100mb… that takes some time.
Yeah so cache it so it doesn’t take time to show you the options. Once you click it can go do bullshit loading. We have a software that used to load and cache the dialogs at first boot and it was fast to use, now it builds the dialog at runtime and is slow to display the options. It sucks.
Switched to using Linux like 6 years ago. Wouldn’t know how bad Windows 11 is but I can only imagine.
Windows 7 was the peak.
This is not ‘things were better when you were fifteen.’ I started on Apple fucking II. I remember Windows 95 being new and fancy, and even that 90 MHz 16 MB ass DOS extension of an operating system had better UI and better UX than Windows 10 or 11. 98 was an improvement, NT was a tradeoff, ME was a mistake, XP was a lurching step forward, service packs can burn in hell, Vista doubly so. Windows 7 was the last time the good-bad-good-bad cycle actually worked out. 8 was bad, trying to be a touchscreen OS, and then 8.1 was a band-aid instead of a real fix, and everything since WIndows 10 has been a deliberate disaster. ‘We’re gonna screenshot your desktop every few seconds because–’ Die.
Windows 2000 was peak. XP and 7 were warmed up leftovers in comparison
I feel like Windows 2000 was peak. Best UI, no spyware, fast… Yeah, it was great
The whole NT line is crap.
NT cleaned up the 2 routes windows was taking and recombined them. If they hadn’t then the consumer windows would have been a lot worse now than it already is. Dave’s Garage/Dave’s Attic, the guy who wrote task manager, explained how the consumer windows was worse than a hot mess until they were brought back into the corporate branch.
tbh XP or 2K was much better. 7 got rid of accelerated classic theme, so the whole experience was laggy when not using Aero. accelerated aero desktops are cool but there’s a noticeable delay.
Win10 is when telemetry was implemented for the first time. You’d better be off with win8.1 with some custom start menu adjustments or straight back to a heaven of Win7.
Or, inhales deeply, just install Linux and do not bother with MS crap cause Linux just works and there is some sort of a distro for pretty much anyone’s taste and preferences that will serve them as good or even better than win10/11/8.1/7.
The telemetry all got backported as far as seven and made a mandatory dependency of some security updates, so within a few weeks of 10’s launch, you either had telemetry or a machine that wasn’t safe to connect to the Internet.
I miss Windows XP. Take me back to the rolling green hills.
But with Win8 you don’t get and Updates anymore. With Win10 there’s still the LTSC (IoT) version.
Linux HDR support is so bad that it makes the entire OS not worth using.
I was using Debian for 4 years but unfortunately I had to stop using it once I stopped being poor because it just cannot run an OLED as its supposed to.
HDR is only supported on AMD cards and has abysmal software integration, even on supported content… Comparatively, it just works on W11, even on titles that don’t support it because of AutoHDR.
I hope it can be resolved soon, but as of rn unfortunately its not there yet.
The problem lies in the fact that Linux could easily integrate HDR for everything, but NVIDIA. HDMI and MS are gatekeeping these features.
I was using Debian
Say no more, fam, I see your problem. Debian is what you run for stability. If you want features, you need a more appropriate distro.
HDR in Wayland using KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 is supported on NVIDIA-open-595.58.03 and later.
A lot of specific applications still suck, including Firefox, but HDR is supported on AMD and NVIDIA.
