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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

According to South Park the movie, Windows 98

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Vista I think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree on the ads and bundled services, but the "windows is slow" stuff is horseshit. A tight build of Linux boots more quickly no doubt, but a fresh Win10 or 11 install, even with bloat, is up in under 30 seconds, and runs swiftly out of the box. This isn't "slow" by any definition.

Again, let's hate the other shit, let's hate on that together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I might have phrased that wrong. On my computer windows uses about 40% of my laptop cpu with nothing else running, but I do agree that it isn't really show

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Windows Vista was the start in my eyes. XP (pro) was amazing. And then Vista came out and it broke a lot of things. Security was garbage, applications would constantly lose root files

Vista only lasted 2 years before they went back and turned it into Windows 7 with a few small tweaks, but more or less the exact same thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

98, XP, 7, 10: Good.

ME, Vista, 8, 11: Bad.

It's Star Trek Movies all over again. We just need to hang on for Windows 12.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

98 still had plenty of jank, but it was worlds better than 95. I would add 3/3.11 to the "good" list if only because that was basically the only other option for a lot of people and it did what it needed to. I don't recall personally seeing windows 1 or 2.

edit: I guess I could throw NT mostly into the good section, but I mostly just did tech support for it rather than using it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

probably 8 or 10

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