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    What y'all talking about? (mastodon.ml)
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    What y'all talking about?

    @linuxmemes

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    [–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Windows 2000 wasn't bad.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

    That was probably my favorite version. It’s when the integrated the NT kernel into the regular consumer desktop windows iirc, which led to XP.

    It did the job pretty well. And I’m sure even Windows 11 is good enough for most. But these days using even windows 10 after being used to Linux is painful.

    [–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    I would say right up to about Windows 7. Then the enshittification started.

    BTW, I have no idea how to spell enshittification.

    [–] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

    You spelled it correctly. The image macro missed a T.

    [–] tisktisk@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

    I think its just become inconveniently bad now lol

    [–] mittorn@masturbated.one 3 points 1 month ago

    @drq @linuxmemes Even nt5.0 was shit, but it's interface was really good. Later microsoft lost interface consistency. First is enabled/disabled visual styles, and second it dotnet interfaces, looking completely different This is enshitification :)

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    If it was always shit, it wouldn't be so popular.

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    @Honytawk Billions of flies can't be just wrong, can they.

    [–] shuro@friends.deko.cloud 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    @drq This sort of flippant fanboyism never helped anything.

    Myself I think this is one of those things that really stall FOSS as it just dismisses both competition and coexistence.

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    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Good things we aren't flies then.

    Because if we were, shit would be the shit and you would be eating it as well.

    It is only because we are human that we think of shit as something negative.

    [–] murph@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

    Haven't cared for any version of Windows, going back before 3.0 .

    [–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    I liked Windows 97.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I wouldn't call it shit. However, the design limitations of Windows have always been there. At least with Windows 10/11 the OS is way more solid than it was.

    [–] rikudou 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Makes sense, you want your spying software more robust than something unimportant like an OS.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

    Windows XP came with telemetry as well. Realistically Windows is not any worse than Chrome OS or Mac OS.

    If you want privacy you need Linux

    [–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

    Pretty much, in short. But it used to be far less shitty

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