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> Seeing the beautiful, uncluttered, elegant simplicity of those screenshots makes me quite nostalgic You're nostalgic for a time that never existed. While I a
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> Seeing the beautiful, uncluttered, elegant simplicity of those screenshots makes me quite nostalgic
You're nostalgic for a time that never existed. While I agree that Windows 7 was more coherent than Windows Vista and Windows XP, every single Windows release has had its associated "bullshit" (as you put it):
* Windows 98: Advertising on the desktop (Active Channels)
* Windows XP: "Fischer-Price" default UI skin and chunky, toy-like iconography.
* Windows Vista: The whole OS release was maligned - and this site collected it all: https://web.archive.org/web/20110515033457/http://www.aerotaskforce.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110515033457/http://www.aerota...
* Windows 7: (Okay, I'll admit I can't immediately think of any major power-user criticism of Windows 7)
* Windows 8: Start Screen, terrible store apps, the DWM cannot be disabled, etc.
* Windows 10: Criticism of telemetry and data-collection, and how there's still some leftovers from Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 (I forget) lying around:
- dm319 5y agoI'd say 7 was one of the best Windows, but even that had a lot of UI inconsistency and clutter. Still, better than most. Not as cohesive as my MATE desktop.
- twic 5y ago> every single Windows release I don't see NT 4 on that list! NT 4, 2000, and 7 were all fairly low-bullshit, i think. You also haven't listed Me, which probably needs a whole comment to itself.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoWhen I first got Windows 7, I was annoyed by it placing libraries and homegroups in Windows Explorer's sidebar. Though Windows 10 is worse, with 3D Objects, the OS shilling OneDrive, Edge, mandatory Microsoft accounts, etc.