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SvennoJ said:
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.

Same here.

My Win7 PC is from 2008, I'm not even sure all the hardware inside my case is compatible to Win10, let alone some peripherals to whom I'm sure are no Win10 drivers anymore.

Speaking of ald PCs, I also have a very old one... a 486 DX-40 running on Win95SE. Perfect for some retrogaming!

Pemalite said:
TruckOSaurus said:

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.

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.

Oh yeah. Even remember the pre-windows era, I started with DOS 3.0...

As for Win95, it's hardware requirements were a huge step up from Win 3.x, which is where Win95 got it's bad rep from. Win3.x could run on a 286, Win95 needed at least a 486 DX to run properly, and many were still on 386 or 486 SX at the time.

Win XP, being NT-based, was a nightmare early on for DOS-based software. It took until Service Pack 2 to really become good enough for most people. It's good reputation comes mostly from Vista being so badly received as a successor because it, just like the situation between Win95 and 3.x before, needed much higher specs than XP, which by then could run on any potato.

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Bofferbrauer2 said:
SvennoJ said:
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.

Same here.

My Win7 PC is from 2008, I'm not even sure all the hardware inside my case is compatible to Win10, let alone some peripherals to whom I'm sure are no Win10 drivers anymore.

Speaking of ald PCs, I also have a very old one... a 486 DX-40 running on Win95SE. Perfect for some retrogaming!

Pemalite said:

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.

Oh yeah. Even remember the pre-windows era, I started with DOS 3.0...

As for Win95, it's hardware requirements were a huge step up from Win 3.x, which is where Win95 got it's bad rep from. Win3.x could run on a 286, Win95 needed at least a 486 DX to run properly, and many were still on 386 or 486 SX at the time.

Win XP, being NT-based, was a nightmare early on for DOS-based software. It took until Service Pack 2 to really become good enough for most people. It's good reputation comes mostly from Vista being so badly received as a successor because it, just like the situation between Win95 and 3.x before, needed much higher specs than XP, which by then could run on any potato.

I have some bad memories of service pack 2. My parents in law wanted to gift their old xp pc to someone else and had me clean it up and get into shape. They were very behind on updates including service pack 2. However after service pack 2 (or maybe 3) had installed the pc ended up in an eternal boot crash boot cycle. It turned out that the specific cpu in that pc was not compatible with the update. It crashed before you could even get into safe mode or recovery mode :( Of course my parents in law had lost the installation discs long ago, thus it went to the trash anyway.

Btw I turned my win 7 pc on again last night and there was an update.... The final final update? Or perhaps one that keeps failing and coming back.