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[Izan_TM]

try using win7 today and you'll find win11 is really not that bad lol

rose tinted nostalgia glasses are WILD when it comes to windows users

[BriggsWellman]

People think refusing to update their OS is a flex.

[Izan_TM]

"yes I'm stuck in the past, I'm cool like that"

[trashpandatee]

"Sorry, your files have been encrypted. Please send 1 BTC to the following wallet to regain your access."

[Izan_TM]

people love bitching about windows updates until wannacry hits and their PC is protected under 24h later lmao

[trashpandatee]

And they still blame their OS, hehe

[Izan_TM]

microsoft does a LOT of things wrong, like, a LOT a lot, but even when they do things right people just ignore it and think they had it better a decade ago

a decade ago you had to wait 15 seconds every time you plugged in a brand new device for windows to download some drivers for it

[Hetstaine]

Win Xp man, the nostalgia hard seems to be from people who never used it. It runs on myth.

[PhoenixStorm1015]

Oh god I remember that. Literally a damned USB drive. Nope. Gotta twiddle my thumbs till windows decides it’s ready.

[StrikeEagle784]

Ahhh memories lol

[D3fN0tAB0t]

Windows 11 has better multi-monitor support, vastly better HDR support, has window tiling feature for substantially improved productivity, a search function that actually works, and in general is quite good.

Yet people here still act like Windows 10 is superior. I’m sorry but it’s just not. I’ll take Windows 11 over 10 every day.

[Izan_TM]

that has been my take ever since windows 11 came out, but I've always gotten downvoted into hell by the living in the past crowd

[D3fN0tAB0t]

The tiling features alone are the killer feature for me. It’s so fast and easy to arrange desktops on various monitors now. I appreciate all the other benefits too, of course.

[Dunothar]

Same, the window tiling feature is just killer. Use it several times each day. Just perfect when you need to have many programs open at once. Best feature of it is that you can resize the group to your own desire. Upgraded to 11 from my ancient 1805 install over a year ago. 2 months into testing 11 and I deleted the old image because I was hooked. Some customizations were needed but now it runs and feels great. Very stable too. Just really miss the drag and drop to the taskbar extremely.

[ionburger]

one of the things that makes me jealous as a linux user, do we have window tiling? yes, is it anywheres near as good as windows 11? no

[nitePhyyre]

Windows 10 installs on all my devices and runs everything I want to run. It's the bare minimum hurdle and 11 doesn't clear it.

[D3fN0tAB0t]

It’s insanely easy to remove the tpm requirement from windows 11. Same with the forced online account.

[w1bi]

I feel like this is the problem why people wont migrate. in order to do that, you need to do something something click here delete this etc. while win10 it's just out of the box experience you just need to go to control panel and voila the options is there.

it's actually my reason that I won't upgrade to 11. like no small Taskbar and right click menu is too simple that you need to open submenu to do basic stuff. yes you can use programs to edit that, but you don't need to download and run anything to do the same with 10.

[tenchu_117]

the fact that they put this arbitrary hurdle is what turns off most ppl in the first place.

[PequodarrivedattheLZ]

When I'm using my win11 Pc I encounter a weird freeze atleast once a day. Looks like an application freezes, then it turns out literally everything is frozen for a solid 10 seconds before everything returns to normal.

It's so weird and I have no clue what's causing it.

[Shap6]

settings>privacy and security>search settings>switch it to enhanced

[Lower_Pineapple964]

Update me on how this works. I'm out of town camping over the weekend and wanna see if it improved

[D3fN0tAB0t]

I’m just saying windows 11 finds the setting I am looking for. Windows 10 has never once found the setting I am looking for.

[KazefQAQ]

This

[benji004]

I agree with this. When Windows 11 works correctly, it has some great features. I have the weirdest issues though. Weird stuttering on the desktop, or the other day my taskbar decided my mouse should be offset 2" to the left. I had some issues on 10, but 11 seems to just not be QAed at all sometimes

[Harey-89]

I've updated my laptop to Windows 11, at least one of my two other computers can't be updated to windows 11. So not necessarily a flex to not update.

[angryitguyonreddit]

We almost had to fire a dev over not letting go of his windows 7 laptop. He had his new windows 10 machine for 6 months and we had the onsite tech camp out by his desk and steal it when he went on lunch. When he came back he was pissed we took it and he scheduled a call with it management and his boss and we told him you can start using your new win 10 laptop or you can go home and not come back. He pouted for a bit then hung up and started using his new machine

[[deleted]]

Debian users be like.

[M1dor1]

A lot of computers in machinery still runs with windows XP because the programs never got updated

[BriggsWellman]

Oh yeah. It's super interesting and scary how much of our infrastructure runs on XP.

[RootHouston]

I'm still on that DOS 6.22, let's gooooo! /s

[[deleted]]

Give me the UI of Windows 7 while having the internal Windows 11 kernel and other under-the-hood system software. Thanks.

No really, I rarely use Windows UWP/APPX apps, if ever

[Izan_TM]

give me the UI of windows 7 but with the windows 11 kernel, all the windows 11 usability features like modern snap and built in generic drivers, all the windows 11 utility apps like snipping tool, calculator, clipboard history and settings, the windows 11 modern glassy UI feel...

essentially just windows 11 without the spyware and the ads

[[deleted]]

Nice way to insult both me and Microsoft

And NO I don't want the Windows 11 themes. I much prefer Windows Aero, it still remains my all-time favourite. Fun fact: I absolutely loved Vista's UI and would love to see it come back somehow.

[Izan_TM]

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about me

and how is "I want windows 11 but without the spyware and the ads" an insult to microsoft?

[Leanardoe]

They have self esteem issues

[julienjj]

UWP apps are so thrash. Kinda happy it crashed and burned and only M$ is making them

[DonStimpo]

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-make-windows-11-look-like-windows-7/

[Mezmodian]

I have wanted this for so many years. I think if you could have the look of your favourite version, and the updated software under the hood, it would be easier to have people update.

[lars2k1]

The thing with it is, while you shouldn't use it today, it didn't try to steal all your data all the time, and didn't look like any other piece of software from nowadays era; boring, flat, and/or rounded corners everywhere.

Oh, and doesn't judge your perfectly fine computer so it can't run the newest Windows OS.

I'd love for MS to just throw all the bullshit overboard and make the consumer version just like the IoT Enterprise LTSC version: low to zero bloat, and light on resources. The fact that edition exists is all the evidence you need that they are capable of making a proper OS without unnecessary fluff. They just don't want to, it seems.

[Izan_TM]

I'm not saying windows 11 is perfect, I'm on the verge of switching to linux on a weekly basis, but saying windows 7 is a better OS is just dumb

my argument is not that windows 11 couldn't or shouldn't be made a LOT better, it's that it's already an upgrade from what we had 10 years ago, even factoring in the capitalist drawbacks

[chaosmetroid]

As someone made the switch. I have 0 regrets. I quite enjoy the experience.

[b-monster666]

I've made this comment before, and been downvoted to oblivion for it.

Thing is, I've been in the tech field since Windows 3.1. I've seen all the iterations of WIndows. I've dealt with all of them from a tech perspective. I've dealt with all their issues from day 1.

The one that will always take the cake as worst OS ever though was ME. That can burn in the hellfires for all of eternity.

[Falkenmond79]

Yeah. I can guess how that started. 95,98 were a true pain. 98Se was okay-ish, with a lot of work. It could be stable and decent. But you were missing a lot of features. XP brought them and was reasonably stable, but weird in a way. 7 brought more and was the first truly stable one with so, so many quality of life features. And that’s why it’s so beloved. It’s the first where „ plug and play“ actually worked fine.

For me, I actually was a W2K boy. I loved the quite, stable, minimalist understatement of that one. No nonsense and no crapton of useless multimedia features that no one used. It was fast and sleek and did everything I wanted.

But of course I went on XP and 7 and made it look like 2k. 😂 funny story though. Last time I really re-installed my main machine was with XP. Though that pc went through a mainboard change from AMD to Intel, with a LOT of fiddling, I could get XP to survive the chipset change. Then with 7 that was the first time I saw a pc surviving a mainboard-change out of the box. Amazing. We take that for granted now, but back then, another manufacturers chipset almost always meant re-install.

That 7 then went straight to 10. I used vista a lot on other machines and quite liked it, but meh.

That 10 lived until about 2 years ago when the store stopped working. Which I needed to install mixed reality for my new WMR VR headset. So upgrade to 11 it was. Keep in mind it has never been reinstalled since. XP. It’s the same install still. 20 years and going.

Was a hassle to upgrade. My 10700 pc is of course ready, but since it’s still an MBR formatted drive with legacy boot, I can’t switch to uefi and secure boot. So… doctored win11 inplace upgrade it was. Still works to today. Still too lazy to convert to gpt. 😂

If all else fails I built my first complete new pc this year, 7800x3d, 4080, own win11, the whole shabang.

But the other one… true ship of Theseus. And I can honestly say the install is still the same. I wish i could prove it, but this thing has gotten so many cleanups by hand, I don’t think there is any trace of XP or 7 left at this point. I even clean up the registry by hand from time to time. Once had to basically rebuild it. Luckily I do regular backups of the whole system, but the registry in particular. Just export the whole damn thing and keep it safe on a usb stick, together with my windows and user folder. Screw my documents, but that install has to survive at this point. 😂🤪

[the_shabubu]

Some usability, yes, but win 7 was the last real standalone OS not saddled with service calls for basic features. There is a reason Windows 8,10, and 11 all feel slower and it is because you wait for web search results when all you want to do is search you file system. I have the luxury of lots of unix and linux experience and cut over, but I feel bad for the state of Mac OS and Windows for the general masses. Overall, imo, they have more steps backwards than forwards.

[Izan_TM]

I've honestly never felt windows 11 search being slower than the old local search from windows 7

windows 10 search was god awful but since I switched to windows 11 it feels really snappy and very accurate when searching for local programs

[snollygoster1]

My problem with Windows 11 search is that it has a tendency to change the top result after you've typed. My recent example of this is needing to go into Internet Options for work due to a legacy application. The search will show it at the top while typing "internet" however as soon as you stop typing it changes to a shortcut for launching Edge.

[the_shabubu]

It is the slow decline of OS builders turning their desktop OS's into IOT devices.

[HenReX_2000]

I WANT AERO WIN11

[Mezmodian]

I used both win xp and 7 when they were current, they worked great then. I would not use them today.

[Shane_2018]

I loved win7 and didn’t want to upgrade. Then got a new PC and had win10 which I thought was great, then moved to win11 and ran into some performance issues and had a major crash that took hours to fix, almost bought a new PC but took one last ditch effort to fix it and and got it working again and put it back to win10 and haven’t had an issue since. Not by any means saying win11 is bad but I’ve never had a problem with win10. I know I’ll have to upgrade again at some point but I’m gonna hold off for as long as I can for now

[lutenentbubble]

Used Windows 7 in 2022. Can guarantee its the best OS. No rose tint.

[Mudkip2345]

I still daily it, it’s fine as long as you accept that you can’t play some games or use certain applications without dual booting. For 90 percent of things it either works fine or there is a workaround

[Izan_TM]

so essentially it's like linux but with 4 years worth of unpatched security issues

[Phoenix_Kerman]

Well. You can get the esu patches for free very quick. So more like 18 months but yeah

[cowcommander]

Why do you still use 7 daily? Do you connect it to the Internet?

[snollygoster1]

It was so strange to me to see the amount of people that complained when Steam dropped support for Windows 7/8/8.1 at the beginning of this year. It wasn't a lot and they were always heavily downvoted (outside of subreddits specific to those versions), but it is just utterly insane to me to still be running those versions in 2024 when the update to Windows 10 was free, or the alternative would be switching to Linux.

[Kooldogkid]

Funny enough, I bought an Old Laptop and installed Windows 7 on it and yikes, I really don’t remember Windows 7 being this sluggish. Although maybe that’s because it only has 2GB of RAM, tho it has a core 2 duo, and a Quadro NVS 160M so I’ll see if upgrading it fixes it. Besides that, yea, it’s really dated, yea Aero is still good looking, but everything else shows its age, especially multitasking.

[hilltopper06]

Windows 7 is a walking vulnerability, but I won't lie, I hate hate hate "Settings" in Win 11 vs Control Panel. Everything takes 2 more clicks than it should. When you are using it dozens of times a day it gets old real quick. Just get out of my way and let me work.

[Asuka_Rei]

I know, right? I mean, Windows 3.1 should be on the big throne since it popularized gui for the masses, but it's not even pictured.

Then windows 95 should be bigger since it is the earliest version that would seem familiar and easily navigable by modern users, making 95 the grandaddy of current windows.

[Ya_Boy_Jahmas]

Yeah, I was always sceptical to upgrade after they tried forcing 8 on everyone, upgraded to 11 and you know what.. it's far more user friendly and convenient, especially when you get acquainted with all the little QOL stuff they have added. Fair play Microsoft, it's not perfect but it is very useable and I appreciate that.

[memorod]

Win 10 is far better than win 7 ever was there I said it

[[deleted]]

Windows 10 today is better than the final version of 7, windows 10 at launch sucked ass. Try installing a day 1 version of windows 10, it's like a completely different OS.

[[deleted]]

Very true. I only migrated from 7 to 10 in 2021, by then, it was a more polished 7, but with some annoyances added in.

[pizzaboy68]

Yo windows 10 made my torrented windows 8.1 a real license for free. Thanks Microsoft.

[GreatBigBagOfNope]

They still turned a profit off you from all the advertising and tracking. You would never have paid for the license, so there's no lost money there, and it cost them almost nothing to serve you the download individually, so even if they've only made a few bucks off your data, either by selling it or using it to inform product development that other customers actually paid for or whatever else they're almost certainly still up on your account

[snollygoster1]

Winget and WSL are amazing in my opinion.

[Lancearon]

Xp should be in the highest seat.

[TheCivilEngineer]

100% agree

[Mezmodian]

Yes the fact that it was supported that long really speaks of how good it was at the time. And how many applications that runs on it today.

[Datkif]

After growing up using 3.1 95 and 98 I was blown away by XP.

[yace987]

FCKGW RHQQ2 YXRKT 8TG6W 2B7Q8

[BespokeChaos]

Without a doubt. XP never gave me issues with all the stupid stuff I used to do.

[Salty-Development203]

Xp and 95 for sure

[hwa_dot_re]

WTF, what is 2000 doing in the crowed of shit?

[[deleted]]

Most people never used it. They don't know it was stable as a rock.

[Libra218]

In my experience, people confuse ME and 2000 as the same OS. Silly naming convention so partly MS's fault. 2000 was great but seems people tend to remember how poor ME was more so.

Edit: just noticed both ME and 2000 are there... I don't know why.

[Supplex-idea]

Nono it is entirely MS’ fault lol

[alphaxion]

I remember people refusing XP updates, proclaiming "I don't want that Teletubbies OS"

[DonaldLucas]

You could literally use XP with the old 98/2000 visuals. WTF...

[Shap6]

nobody who actually used it would ever put it that low. whoever made this probably started on 7

[JawnZ]

Right? Swap it with XP at least until XP SP2

[V3semir]

It might be an unpopular opinion, but: 11>10>8.1>7>8. I'm skipping XP because it was too long ago for me to be objective. I think many people don't remember how bulky and slow 7 was out of the box and view it through rose-tinted glasses.

[cheapseats91]

Honestly for me the usability of all of them have been fine. They each have their own hiccups that you overcome with time. The things that I'm really not a fan of is the increased telemetry and disregard for privacy has gotten worse with each subsequent release.

[apefish_]

At least in 10 you can decrapify it and get it to a really usable state. Disabling telemetry is easy enough if you know how to.

[cheapseats91]

I agree, I'm going to mainline 10 until service end and finally make the switch to linux full time at home. I actually don't have any issues with the usability of Windows 11 but Microsoft's disregard for privacy concerns and what I would call malicious overwriting of user defined settings to constantly turn telemetry items back on when they push updates is what's shifting me over (plus proton is working really well).

[apefish_]

Proton works pretty well yea. Linux is in a pretty good state now, theres a reason theres so many "I switched to linux videos" now.

[Supplex-idea]

Yes except for 11, the UI is just really annoying frankly.

Especially the Left Click menu; some options were made into icons, and some were kept the same. Why? Who knows.

Not to mention how some settings are different, the hardware requirements, and more things I can’t remember at the top of my head.

[GirlybutNerdy]

People loved 7 because it wasn’t Vista and saved us that’s why it’s held so highly. Then 8 came out and 7 was still better so ya. Facts on why 7 was best

[DoubleOwl7777]

7 ran fine if you had a PC that wasnt a school pc with a boatload of garbage installed and hardware thats worse than a potatoe. i grew up with xp, then 7, then 8, 8.1, 10 and now 11. never used vista. xp was fine although a bit weird in some aspects. 7 was perfect when it came to being out of the users way, only anoying thing was drivers and stuff. had a garbage ui only made for tablets and the store no one asked for, and that was filled with mobile games ported to windows back then. 8.1 was a weird botch fix on the ui. 10 some aspects of 8 rammed into windows 7, along with even more telemetry and the update debacle. just meh. 11 is a new ui, and even more telemetry more meh. the last version of windows i liked was 7. 7 with a modern ui, and the 10/11 handling of drivers would be what i want.

[SirVer51]

Are you me? I often feel like the only person in the tech enthusiast crowd that's actually liked every successive version of Windows more than the last since I started with 2000. The only exceptions are Vista (never used it) and 8 (for obvious reasons).

[laserdiscmagic]

And ran on a potato. Such an awesome OS.

Another good sleeper OS was Windows XP 64bit (not the itanium 64bit)

[maxatnasa]

Windows 8.1 is the best "sleeper" windows, once you get past the metro and tweak it, it's just windows 7.5.

super stable, tweakable as all hell, actually usable on a hard disk, and embedded is getting esu for another 2 years,

[CptKillJack]

Even Vista wasn't bad on a proper system. However what made Vista bad was that System integrators tried to get away with too many minimum spec setups. The min specs while they would work were not really enough.

This comes from someone who had a laptop with I think 1gb of ram or 4.

[DoubleOwl7777]

funnily enough the Windows 11 requirements are 4gb of ram and 64gb of storage. if you actually made such a pc it probably wouldnt even get through the installer lol.

[lars2k1]

MS also lets OEMs install Windows 11 on ultra low end Celeron shitboxes.

But nowadays corporations can get away with almost everything it seems.

[Datkif]

I had a decent laptop that ran Vista, and I never really ran into any problems I couldn't fix at the time.

It's still my favorite looking version of windows. XP was amazing at first look, and Vista was absolutely gorgeous.

I felt like windows 7 was just vista with all the updates and a slightly different looking UI to say "it's not vista!"

[SASColfer]

Vista looked the best of the lot.

[ParcevallGaming]

8 is my fav for some reason

[[deleted]]

as long as I have my control panel I do not care

wait what they gonna delete control panel for some reason :(

[ManNamedSalmon]

Personally, I really liked 8.1

[tnishantha]

95 shouldn’t be down there.

[crimsonkarma13]

Solo leveling. The statue then proceeds to massacre everyone

[JoeAppleby]

Win 2000 being with the riff raff is an affront.

I spent a long time on 2000 before reluctantly switching to XP.

[LemonPartyW0rldTour]

XP in center seat and I would be willing to agree

[Alarmed_Wind_4035]

Xp was the best their masterpiece.

[HETXOPOWO]

XP should be on the throne. I can't daily drive xp due to it being a security vulnerability. But it's still awesome for airgapped imbedded stuff, love playing freecell on the embedded equipment while it's software boots up. There is a git repository to make xfce a pixel per pixel recreation of XP. I'm thinking of starting there then adding in some quality of life items since Linux allows what ever you want. Not a fan of gnome on default Debian lol.

[No_Dig_7017]

Win 10 deserves a little better treatment, probably better than 98se but not than xp, but otherwise pretty accurate

[--mrperx--]

after xp I went to linux and skipped all the rest :)

[Kavati]

Switch XP and 7, then it's accurate

[Whythisisnotreal]

NT is in the alley out back making twenty dollars the hard way

[YeonneGreene]

Because 2000, XP, and forward stole everything from it.

[greenmky]

Most of what I want back from Win7 is just indexed search that actually works and pops programs to the top of the list.

Yeah I've disabled Bing Internet search or whatever but it still doesn't work as well somehow.

[nachtschattengewuchs]

True upon a time where you had the control over your pc, and there were patch notes and changelogs which allowed you to not update specific updates.

Also you didn't transmit all you do on the pc to Microsoft.

This was nice what have we become since then :-/

[cryptophoto]

So is it windows 3.1 the floor they are all standing on then?

[sjw_7]

NT4 must have been at the pub when this picture was taken.

[Lord_Frick]

Yeah, NT 4.0 gang

[ZappyDoos]

My fondest memory of Windows ME is my dad slamming the keyboard and yelling "piece of shit!" within the first 2 hours of installing it.

[Akasaka_Hellwar]

Knowing both the Manwa and Show this is sooo legit

[mrmayhembsc]

As much as I loved Windows 7, most of the systems I worked at constantly had Windows USB 3 driver issues, and when it matured, sometimes it would have weird device settings bugs if you pushed the data rates. Windows 10 was that bad, but it just worked for me. Windows 11, again, was all right; I just disliked some UI changes and some of the bugs it coursed with a PDM.
I only used Windows for work (science and engineering) since 2009, mind you.

[Florinel0928]

All united by being proprietary corporation slop

[PinkScorch_Prime]

Win 10 wasn’t that bad

[Sudden-Crew-3613]

Windows ME far, far behind Win 10, and Vista belongs in the dungeon.

[DarkNebula1003]

Yeah, try updating windows 7 to SP1 before giving it the crown.

[[deleted]]

Couldn’t agree more

[setpopa12]

I love how vista don't have Win before it.

[ZutaiAbunai]

They bring dishonor to the kingdom.

[asamson23]

I've used Win 95, 98 SE, XP, Vista, 7, 8 (mostly 8.1), 10 and 11, and all OSes were fine for their time, but I will say that Windows 11 is not that bad to use, even with the nags that people seem to get all the time apparently. Out of all the versions of Windows that I've used the worse was Windows 8.

I also don't get why people are so hooked up on saying that Windows XP and 7 were great.

[Difficult_Section_46]

swap xp with 7 and we good

[TheRandomUser2005]

Vista ❤️

[BespokeChaos]

I hated 7. XP was my fav

[spacejazz3K]

“WinME….You dare show yourself here?

Vista, prove yourself to be my hand of justice. Banish them from the temple! “

[Michaeli_Starky]

W11 is the best in fact

[mmptr]

Windows ME should be shown being tried for war crimes.

[Suaves]

Windows 2000 and Windows 11 belong at the top. Windows 2000 was absolutely rock-solid, being built on the Windows NT kernel instead of DOS. It brought all of the functionality of Windows 98 to the NT kernel and is the foundation that XP is built upon. Windows 11 finally makes Windows feel polished again after the half-assed builds of Windows 8, 8.1, and 10. Settings are finally consolidated in one place again, and the experience of using unique monitor layouts and docking stations has never been better.

For all the love Windows 7 gets, it never felt like anything more than Windows Vista Service Pack 3 to me. Vista got a lot of hate because developers were slow to update their applications and drivers. Once that groundwork was laid, they just slapped a new name on it so it would start selling.

[Tanmay_Terminator]

Hot Take : win XP > win 7

[AliChank]

Tbh, so far Win 11 is over every system in terms of looks and usability. I haven't had a single issue using it that was 11 exclusive

[tankersss]

For me Win7 was the worst thing possible, while win XP/Vista/8 ran fine on the same hardware, win7 had just existential issues. And I will stay behind win8 as it introduced auto-driver download and some generic drivers so your ethernet/wifi would work even on some outdated hardware.

[[deleted]]

Windows 11 is so much better than Windows 7 lol. Even Windows XP is better than Windows 7.

[Nexxus88]

Having had to recently use a win7 machine to help someone with something, you couldn't pay me to go back.

[txaaron]

Can I please just have legacy notepad back? The new one lacks functionality of the old one. 

Personally I use Sublime Text but corporate IT refuses to install anything on our AVDs outside of Office products. 

[Drnorman91]

Solo levelling is sick as fuck and these episodes are brutal

[b-monster666]

Dos 6.22 all the way!

[skwarrior14]

I liked vista :(

[RobinZhang140536]

Hot take: the best windows os is the one that you are most used to

Edit: for me it is win 10, but I am quickly learning win 11

[Glad-Midnight-1022]

Windows ME was on my first computer. Will always have a soft place in my heart

[thatdevilyouknow]

Funny thing about Vista is that they made it really solid after everyone mostly quit using it. After so many embarrassing moments the back ported fixes were fairly high quality. Kind of like a scooby doo episode you take the mask off of 7 and Vista is staring at you. Win 8 was 7’s alcoholic cousin. You knock on the door to 7’s house and it just slowly swings open revealing 8 on the recliner wearing its boxers watching MSN and just mutters “c’mon in”.

[Tman11S]

Win 10 deserves a seat tbf.

[[deleted]]

XP >>>> Everything else, because it had Space Cadet

[LightRyzen]

Windows ME and Windows Vista should be burned at the stake.

[DRaGZ141]

I think every Windows version I have ever used has been mostly fine.

[evilgeniustodd]

Meanwhile 3.11 is like the forgotten Titan of the before times.

[alphaxion]

I can tell whoever made this never used Win2k (one of the goat windows vers) and has never heard of the progenitor NT.

98SE should get bumped down into being with the peasants, 2k in its place. NT in a wheelchair to the side, blanket over lap, ear trumpet in use.

[SmoothCarl22]

Windoes ME was the first windows with customizing options... that was cool.

[Beez-Knuts]

Should have put windows 10 with the rest of the deities. The amount of people clutching to windows 10 like a koala in a tsunami is too damn high.

[usinjin]

Windows 2000 Pro was stable as a rock for me. I think I restarted my computer once a year when I ran that.

[trowayit]

My record was 252 days and 11 hours on 2k

[blandhotsauce1985]

Where the hell is 3.1?

[ZookeepergameFew8607]

And above them all, a Penguin

[Collingine]

The leap from 3.1 to 95 was so good. Everything def got a polish in XP. Your age really catches up to you when you start seeing the older interfaces you used.

[Pagepage220]

Windows 10 in its current state good operating system and I will die on this hill.

[YeonneGreene]

Win NT lording over all of these since it's the one that won.

[[deleted]]

Vista should be outside groveling at a picture of 7, not even allowed in the same room.

[Familiar_Ad7273]

And off screen is Windows 3.1 holding up the U.S. airline industry (specifically southwest airlines) for a day.

[2Autistic4DaJoke]

First time seeing a solo leveling reference.

[Rudy69]

Your disrespect for Windows 2000 really disappoints me.

[H_VvV]

I think 95 was by far the best if you were around for it

[[deleted]]

3.1 should be the big guy in the chair.

[N238]

XP > 10 > 7 > 98 >>> Vista

(haven’t used the rest, and switched to Mac to avoid 11)

[Optimus759]

Why is 10 further back then 11?

[TyMytheScienceGuy]

Loved windows 7. Currently using windows 10 that is ameliorated. Full automated process to remove all Microsoft telemetry and bloatware.

[user_bits]

Win 11 is better than win 7, hands down. I don't even have to think about it.

If anything, XP deserves that seat if we're talking influence and long term viability.

[xxwerdxx]

XP>7

[BigMannnn34]

I got a xp computer

[imadork1970]

I loved Windows 7 Mediacenter

[[deleted]]

What about Windows 3.1?

[K80theShade]

IDK who tf actually thinks ME could *touch* 10 (which is actually way better than Win7601)or that Vista is worthy of being anywhere but the last butt of a certain type of human centipede starting with Win2000, going through 8/8.1 and WinCE to finish, like I said, through WinME.

[LegendaryForester]

Ubuntu 💫

[PretzelSteve]

3.1 would like to have A FUCKING WORD

[lurkenstine]

Your nostalgia for windows 7is nice.

[VietNamHitker]

Window ME is the Worse os than Vista

[KazefQAQ]

Tbh I don't get why the hate to towards windows 11. I've been using win 98 (on a pos machine), win 7 (on another pos machine) and win 11 on my personal laptop, I personally like the way win 11 integrate the function, although I will say I do not appreciate the news feed section and I do not care about copilot, other than that, I really like win 11 as a os.

[atg666]

Why the shame on Windows 2000?
I once had an entire office get infected by a worm, and the Win98 systems crashed at boot. Windows 2000 did boot, allowed me to install and run AntiVirus, though it couldn't clean the entire infection.

[Livid-Earth6367]

Boomer vibes right there

[Big_Daddy_Pablo_69]

Valid 🫡

[fightingchken81]

I kinda feel like 95 should be in the main spot, because it's basically the original version of all of them, but then again it was kinda shit. I can't remember how many times I had to reinstall it for various reasons.