Windows 10 is ridiculous

[Alby_da_Wolf]

BraLoD said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

With MS it's always matter of finding the right version. It happened to me only twice in my life, with Windows 2000 and Windows 7, and I try to keep best working versions as long as possible. With Windows ME things went beyond ridiculous, it was a horrible mess for almost all its existence, then it received fixes that made it decent when the end of MS support for it was approaching. Anyway, with Win 9x versions I was always bugged by a stupid bug MS never fixed: my onboard audio chipset used for MIDI a MS version (actually almost just a rebranded copy) of a Roland reference driver that had a bug, Roland eventually fixed the bug, sloppy, greedy and lazy MS never did, and for reasons I don't know I could never install the fixed Roland version in its place. I didn 't use MIDI very much, but back then Ultima Online required also MIDI audio, so I could never install a 3 months trial version that was included with a gaming magazine, and when I finally upgraded to Win 2000 the UO offer had expired. And that same bugged driver was passed unchanged and unfixed as a precious heirloom across all Win 9x/ME versions, I had to switch to the NT family to get rid of it.
And this is just one of the problems I had with too many Windows versions, when I had to downgrade from 2000 to XP a long period of incompatibilities started that ended only when I finally upgraded to the best Windows ever, at least for me, Windows 7. So MS fans, astroturfers and employees around forums, social networks and newsgroup can say whatever they want to try and persuade me up to wear their fingers out on their keyboards, I won't ever trust them and I won't ever drop a fine working Windows version until its extended support expires.

You skipped XP?

No, I eventually had to use it for some years between 2000 and 7, but I don't miss it, it's been the period during which old DRMs gave me most problems, and XP, unlike 7, let Thief III's one, the unbelievably crappy StarForce, corrupt optical drives' drivers, and reinstalling them wasn't enough, I had to reinstall XP each time I tried to install T III (*), until I gave up and waited for the GOG DRM-free version, that I got when I had already switched to Win 7. In that period, with all that time wasted, I reinstalled Morrowind too late and now I'm struggling to finish it, because each time I play it again I feel a little lost.

(*) Edit: StarForce actually behaved like a rootkit or a trojan, and kept on corrupting drivers after I restored them.