That's nice and all, but I doubt windows 10 will do my windows 7 PC any good lol. Plus I welcome to end of updates! Freedom, turn on and off without waiting forever. I still have a PC running XP as well, and one with Windows NT but that one is in a closet somewhere.

Windows 8 was the absolute WORST operating system I've ever seen in my life.

I agree Windows 8 scores pretty low on the quality scale, but have you not used Windows ME?

It follows the alternating cycle of crappy/good/crappy/good Windows releases which has been true for a while now. I fully expect Windows 11 to be awful.

Lol yeah that has seem to have been the case since at least Windows 98.

I think I'll stick with Windows 10 for a while, that one's been decent enough. Well, actually I'm sticking with my Macbook but my secondary computer will probably stay Windows 10 for a while.

EDIT: @your edit, well with that picture yeah maybe we should say at least since Windows 3.1 lol, though I'd say 95 was the least terrible one of the terrible ones.

EDIT 2: Though I was young when I used 95, I may not be remembering it well enough to know, used 3.1 in the past as well, but that was incidental.

For me the early days of Vista were the worst followed by ME.  I didn't use 8 all that much though...

Windows ME Beta was good. It was very quick to load up too lol. Then the final product come out with all the bloatware that ruined it lol.

Missing several operating systems in that line... Like Windows NT (Good), Windows 2000 (Good) and Windows 8.1. (Meh)

Windows 95 was also a good OS when it launched, it's issue was that technology was moving rapidly and thus had sketchy support for things like USB, so Windows 98 ended up being defacto extremely quickly.

And Windows XP was marred with a ton of issues upon it's release, it was essentially Windows 2000 with a new skin, lots of old Win9x software just didn't run.

Sad that I am old enough to have used every one of these operating systems while they were in their prime though, haha.

True about XP. It wasn't good until SP2. ME was a nightmare. Hard to say anything about Vista as I skipped it entirely, only tried it with SP2 after Win 7 release and it was actually pretty good by that time. No different from Win 7. Win 7 also was downgraded with SP1 from my experience, lots of problems with Windows Update for some reason, when it just simply doesn't work out of the box.

RIP to the GOAT