Past Windows XP I've never used a Windows system on any hardware I would consider adequate. Other than the non-stop "windows update broke thing X which worked j

Past Windows XP I've never used a Windows system on any hardware I would consider adequate. Other than the non-stop "windows update broke thing X which worked just fine" it has a user interface that still manages to feel behind Windows 3.11. I think the fact that I consider XP to be performant is the fact that I had less to compare against back when it first released.