One time my dad installed a new driver on a Windows 95 machine that somehow broke the sound card output. Sound on that computer didn't work again until I re-in

One time my dad installed a new driver on a Windows 95 machine that somehow broke the sound card output. Sound on that computer didn't work again until I re-installed the OS. Rebooting that computer meant walking away and finding something else to do for a while. The macs I got to use in school felt inhumanly slow. I never got to use one of the fun colored macs but I heard those were a big step up. Windows XP was a big improvement. Downloading and installing SP2 and SP3 was daunting on a 56k connection. Still, the OS was plagued by malware. I remember running various malware scans constantly. Mac OSX on the first intel based macs was a massive step up from Windows XP. It converted me from a die hard Windows fan to a mac user. I still prefer macs. For a while I used Windows 7 and it was ok. Better than XP and everything that came after 7, but still not that great in my opinion. One thing that drove me crazy was fixing fuzzy tex issues in Windows 7. Not long ago I re-installed Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) on my 2007 MacBook. I was surprised by how snappy it was compared to my 2018 MacBook Air, and even my M1 pro. To this day the computer I miss the most was my 2013 MBP. I would argue that Mac OS kept getting better until 2013-2017-ish. Windows peaked at Windows 7. Linux desktops struggle to compete with Windows. The operating system play a huge role in user experience. Declining UX quality in operating systems makes the good stuff not as good and makes the bad stuff really stand out.