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Windows 7 is faster and more stable for me than Windows 10 has been. I am forced to keep a drive around with it so that I can run audio recording applications

Windows 7 is faster and more stable for me than Windows 10 has been. I am forced to keep a drive around with it so that I can run audio recording applications without glitches. I have tried every optimization point that I am aware of, but latency mon shows a variety of problem in Win 10, most prominently with NDIS.sys. None of those problems exist in Windows 7 for me. It just works for music and it works cleanly without problems, just as it has since I first installed it. Using GRUB makes it easy to maintain multiple OS's, but it sure would be better if Windows 10 didn't have the problems that it does.

CydeWeys 6y ago
Windows 7 was definitely the peak Microsoft desktop experience. Windows 8 was a trash fire of a tablet OS (no matter what Microsoft might say otherwise, that's what it was) that I was fortunate enough never to have to experience first-hand on any of my devices, but that I did have enough experience with secondhand to see how bad it is. Windows 10 is better than 8, but that's a very low bar, and it's still worse than 7. Windows 10 has an absolute garbage mess of different configuration windows, some that look several decades old but at least are usable and some that have clearly been redesigned recently but which you can't find anything in. USB peripherals can either mount as drivers or as something called a "Device" (even if all they're really doing is mounting as a drive), and the latter is completely unintuitive and nearly impossible to figure out how to unmount safely. File/application finding is a still a dumpster fire that never works for me. There's garbage Cortana integrated into the start menu that always seems to want to search the web via Bing (???!?!!), but can't reliably find files or locally installed applications, even by exact name match. If I wanted to search the Web I'd be searching in a Web browser! Hell, even searching files by exact name or name prefix in the Finder search window just flat out doesn't work. I don't understand how Windows 10 managed to get such fundamentals so completely broken. I find that desktop Linux is actually more usable than Windows 10 simply because basic features like file search actually just work. Unfortunately Windows still wins on compatibility with applications (and especially games) so I'm stuck with it, but if I could run everything I wanted on my Linux computer I'd ditch my Windows computer in a heartbeat.
- tommica 6y ago
  Steams proton is working well for me in couple of games I play
- swiley 6y ago
  Windows 95 was peak Microsoft desktop experience. Although FVWM on suse 6.1 was still better.
  - SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
    NT 4.0 was almost similar, but a bit better, I think. At least it did not crash that often.
  - mongol 6y ago
    Any Windows version running on DOS was worse than any that didn't

CydeWeys 6y ago

Windows 7 was definitely the peak Microsoft desktop experience. Windows 8 was a trash fire of a tablet OS (no matter what Microsoft might say otherwise, that's what it was) that I was fortunate enough never to have to experience first-hand on any of my devices, but that I did have enough experience with secondhand to see how bad it is. Windows 10 is better than 8, but that's a very low bar, and it's still worse than 7. Windows 10 has an absolute garbage mess of different configuration windows, some that look several decades old but at least are usable and some that have clearly been redesigned recently but which you can't find anything in. USB peripherals can either mount as drivers or as something called a "Device" (even if all they're really doing is mounting as a drive), and the latter is completely unintuitive and nearly impossible to figure out how to unmount safely. File/application finding is a still a dumpster fire that never works for me. There's garbage Cortana integrated into the start menu that always seems to want to search the web via Bing (???!?!!), but can't reliably find files or locally installed applications, even by exact name match. If I wanted to search the Web I'd be searching in a Web browser! Hell, even searching files by exact name or name prefix in the Finder search window just flat out doesn't work. I don't understand how Windows 10 managed to get such fundamentals so completely broken. I find that desktop Linux is actually more usable than Windows 10 simply because basic features like file search actually just work. Unfortunately Windows still wins on compatibility with applications (and especially games) so I'm stuck with it, but if I could run everything I wanted on my Linux computer I'd ditch my Windows computer in a heartbeat.

tommica 6y ago
Steams proton is working well for me in couple of games I play
swiley 6y ago
Windows 95 was peak Microsoft desktop experience. Although FVWM on suse 6.1 was still better.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
  NT 4.0 was almost similar, but a bit better, I think. At least it did not crash that often.
- mongol 6y ago
  Any Windows version running on DOS was worse than any that didn't