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Windows XP, Vista and 7 were the most beautiful operating systems ever. Since 7 we've had what could only be described as horrendously unusable and ugly.

extrememacaroni 4y ago
Agreed, 7 was the last Windows I felt had more to love than to complain about. When 10 entered a silly update failed - keep retrying failing updates just to fail again loop I just said nah not worth it and switched permanently to linux mint. It was the last straw so to speak. I was supposed to install an update manager and use it to install updates instead? Bleh. Some audio tweaks here, some kernel tweaks there, we've been through a lot together already this OS and I :D
thatfrenchguy 4y ago
More like we’re all just all getting old
icedchai 4y ago
I always felt XP looked like a toy, compared to say Windows 2000 or NT 4.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  It certainly grated if you were coming to it from macOS.
  - icedchai 4y ago
    Mac OS? or OS X? "macOS" didn't exist at the time. ;)
    - lostlogin 4y ago
      Probably Mac OS 9. I still hit command + n for a new folder, and get a new window. I loved that OS, but if I checked it out now I sure I’d be very disappointed.
dashundchen 4y ago
I think mobile OS designed also peaked with Windows Phone 7. Android and iOS haven't touched the intuitiveness and usability it had. Not to mention the Nokia Lumia hardware was light-years better in build quality then even most Android phones today. They were too late too market and lost developer mindshare with the Windows Mobile to Phone transition.
andix 4y ago
To me XP always looked ridiculous. Like an April’s fool joke, „Windows Toys“r“us Edition“. I still can’t believe that it was used to run nuclear power plants (it probably still does).
- jhgb 4y ago
  The first thing I always did with any XP install was to switch to the W2k look. It saved screen space, too.
signaru 4y ago
Still using 7 when I'm not using Linux. Every new Windows after that just gave you more bloat you didn't ask for. Unsure whether the OS should run on a desktop or a tablet.

extrememacaroni 4y ago

Agreed, 7 was the last Windows I felt had more to love than to complain about. When 10 entered a silly update failed - keep retrying failing updates just to fail again loop I just said nah not worth it and switched permanently to linux mint. It was the last straw so to speak. I was supposed to install an update manager and use it to install updates instead? Bleh. Some audio tweaks here, some kernel tweaks there, we've been through a lot together already this OS and I :D

thatfrenchguy 4y ago

More like we’re all just all getting old

icedchai 4y ago

I always felt XP looked like a toy, compared to say Windows 2000 or NT 4.

lostlogin 4y ago
It certainly grated if you were coming to it from macOS.
- icedchai 4y ago
  Mac OS? or OS X? "macOS" didn't exist at the time. ;)
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Probably Mac OS 9. I still hit command + n for a new folder, and get a new window. I loved that OS, but if I checked it out now I sure I’d be very disappointed.

dashundchen 4y ago

I think mobile OS designed also peaked with Windows Phone 7. Android and iOS haven't touched the intuitiveness and usability it had. Not to mention the Nokia Lumia hardware was light-years better in build quality then even most Android phones today. They were too late too market and lost developer mindshare with the Windows Mobile to Phone transition.

andix 4y ago

To me XP always looked ridiculous. Like an April’s fool joke, „Windows Toys“r“us Edition“. I still can’t believe that it was used to run nuclear power plants (it probably still does).

jhgb 4y ago
The first thing I always did with any XP install was to switch to the W2k look. It saved screen space, too.

signaru 4y ago

Still using 7 when I'm not using Linux. Every new Windows after that just gave you more bloat you didn't ask for. Unsure whether the OS should run on a desktop or a tablet.