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[-] lud@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago

10 was way way better than 8 though.

[-] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

People forget XP was pretty bad at first just like Windows 98 and like Windows 98 people became less critical after a bunch of major fixes. For Windows 98 this became Windows 98SE and for XP this became XP SP2 (and eventually 3).

Both Vista and 7 had problems before they were fixed after awhile. The most common issue I can remember was UAC and everyone just told you to turn it off to install and use their software and games. There were also a bunch of breaking Win API stuff and a lot of software made for XP just didn't work anymore in Vista+.

People mainly just remember them after they were fixed, except for Vista because 7 came out fairly quickly (just 2 years later). Microsoft does not have a good track record for initial Windows releases but eventually everyone forgets and even some of the bad ones are remembered as the good ones.

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Great meme post! This comment section is a scorching hot dumpster fire that beamed carcinogens directly into my retinas. Thanks I hate it.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Appreciate the warning, I will therefore skip this post o7

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 8 points 14 hours ago

MacOS should be a flatline

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Nah. Snow Leopard was peak UI and Mojave was the last tolerable version. I really need to make it a winter project to customize my desktop to have some of the UI elements that got lost in Mac.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 41 points 20 hours ago
[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Wait, did you write an actual function for that graph?

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yes

The Windows function is

cos(pix) + 1

The Linux function is

0.05x^2 - 1/2 cos(pix)
[-] M600@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Dude, I am all for people trying and stuff.

I can tell that you are just starting out in the graph game, and that is cool and all. But compare to OP yours looks terrible. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to save you from the embarrassment.

Take another look at OPs graph and pay attendtion to the different thickness in the lines and the unpredictable curves.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I don't think people got the sarcasm :(

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 217 points 1 day ago
[-] C126@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Real meme is in the comments

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 20 points 1 day ago
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Redstar os is the best os everyone knows it's the pinnacle of linux engineering

Sent from my spy-software-free mobile device (verified by my government(TM))

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Saying Windows 10 is worse than Windows 8 is just nonsense. Saying macOS is worse now than 5 years ago is… just dumb? And the colour scheme doesn't make any sense, why is the red at macOS literally higher than the green?

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

OSX peaked in the 2000s and early 2010s. Apple started walling it off more and more a decade ago.

Their hardware has gotten better in the past 5 years with the m series chips and getting rid of that terrible keyboard though.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

For the Mac and Linux graphs the color seems to represent the rate. When it's going up it's green and when it's going down it's red.

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, but that's just inconsistent…

[-] And009@reddthat.com 2 points 20 hours ago
[-] WormFood@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

the timeline in the pic is a bit off, but macos is definitely getting worse. I think mavericks was the last version that let you turn off mouse acceleration.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

On Sonoma and higher:

System Settings > Mouse > Advanced

On every version:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 106 points 1 day ago

There isn't an universe where 8 was better than 10.

[-] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

8 was INCREDIBLY fast

It also used little resources and it was the last time Microsoft pulled a massive dev effort to modernize almost everything in Windows, significantly evolving it's display and rendering pipeline and making a whole different design language

8 touch interface was also by far the best touch interface I've used

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

They also forced the touch-like interface onto computers that didn't have a touch screen.

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 12 hours ago

It was an improvement but still not great. Ideally they would have kept the Windows 7 interface with maybe some upgrades like virtual desktops, then continued with all the under the hood improvements.

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 1 day ago

I would put win8 lower and win10 as a slight rise but not up to win 7 territory and then plummet. osx should plummet with the iosification of it.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Windows 10 on the same level as ME and Vista?.. And worse than 8 with that fucking Metro UI?

Ok. Ok.....oh...kay.

Look I like Linux and want to eventually abandon windows for it, but this is just mindless circle jerking here

[-] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

This meme says:

  • windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
  • linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
  • and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)
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[-] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 22 points 1 day ago

None of this makes sense

[-] Fosheze@lemmy.world 193 points 1 day ago

Win 10 was definitely an improvement over 8. I'd even argue that 10 as it started out was the best since xp. Of course now 10 has been fully enshitified but it used to be good.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago

I would agree that 10 was very good, but i could say similar things about windows 11 which in many ways performs better then 10.

And yet its shortly after upgrading to 11 that i switched to linux to never look back.

I think part of the logic in this meme is that it doesn’t matter how good the basic functions of the operating system are but what does is the design philosophy of the company. Loyalty in other systems decreased while Loyalty in windows gained.

Microsoft force feeding edge, onedrive, burrying the local account option till after the install with Microsoft account.

Randomly finding an update put a second weather widget on my taskbar that shows a different weather then the one in start. Taskbar icons that cant be closed, only hidden.

These things don't affect the OS functionality in a big deal but its like i was in an abusive relationship that i finally got out of. No matter how much sweet talking and promises to do better i am not going back.

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[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 84 points 1 day ago

The only thing I disagree with here is Win8 being apparently better than Win10.

Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen, and while Win8.1 did help, Win10 was by far the better implementation of PC Metro IMO.

Having said that, Win11 is exactly where it needs to be. It's all of Win10's worst traits cranked up to 11 with a heaping of it's own bullshit and spyware on top

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Windows 10 should be a dead cat bounce on this chart. Better than 8, worse than 7, better than 11 by a lot.

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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago

Are you implying that win10 is worse than win8?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Yea, I'd say Win10/11 is on the same good/shit cycle as always

Though whether Win12 breaks it and continues the shitty trend is highly likely at this point

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[-] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

This is less how OSes evolved and more a line of your perception of Windows. Guess windows 7 was your last one.

[-] teslasaur@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

10 and 11 are waaaaaaaay better than 8. But meme is meme.

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[-] youngalfred@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago

Vista wasn't that bad. The dodgy selling it on computers that couldn't handle it was an issue (much like they still do with selling laptops with only 32gb storage).

I still think it was one of the nicest looking - black taskbar with the start button sticking up, sidebar widgets, aero glass etc

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[-] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Windows has commited a sin()

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[-] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

This implies that Linux is rising but still worse than the worst windows os 🫣🫠🫤😴🤧🤮🥴

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago

the graphs are separate, not superimposed. I agree it's confusing

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