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Joke's on you, I think nowadays it's more enjoyable to use windows 98/95 compared to 10/11. You may have to forego an always connected workflow but i guess tha

by amlib 2y ago

Joke's on you, I think nowadays it's more enjoyable to use windows 98/95 compared to 10/11. You may have to forego an always connected workflow but i guess that's good for your mental health too :)

labster 2y ago
Back then they had the technology to build a solitaire program without advertising, now sadly lost to the mists of time.
- somenameforme 2y ago
  Lol wtf. I just ran Solitaire (on Win10) for the first time. I was greeted by a several second loading screen, a prompt telling me to login to something or another so I can "Level Up" and gain XP rewards, then an error message because it failed to login to XBox Live that cycled through multiple times as I cancelled out, before finally allowing me the privilege of playing as a guest on my own computer. And then I get a splash page filled with advertising crap of other products, which then gives me more errors when I tried to 'x' out of it. What an ungodly abomination that is an utterly appropriate living metaphor for what "modern" OSs have turned into. I can't wait until everything also has "AI" shoved into it. It'll be great.
  - Etheryte 2y ago
    Watch ads as AI plays solitaire for you, now only $1.99.
  - z3t4 2y ago
    Software has never been easier to make, there have never been more software developers, yet we are stuck with software monopoly
  - vel0city 2y ago
    That version of Microsoft Solitaire Collection released ~12.5 years ago.
somenameforme 2y ago
Win 7 felt like that sweet balance between modernity and functionality, especially before Microsoft started backporting the "telemetry" and other "features" from Win10 to Win7. Everything since then seems to serve little purpose other than revenue generation driven solely by forced obsolescence.
yellowapple 2y ago
If Microsoft had just kept iterating on Windows 2000 forever and never developed past XP/Vista/7/etc. I probably wouldn't be a Linux user today.

by amlib 2y ago

Joke's on you, I think nowadays it's more enjoyable to use windows 98/95 compared to 10/11. You may have to forego an always connected workflow but i guess that's good for your mental health too :)

labster 2y ago

Back then they had the technology to build a solitaire program without advertising, now sadly lost to the mists of time.

somenameforme 2y ago
Lol wtf. I just ran Solitaire (on Win10) for the first time. I was greeted by a several second loading screen, a prompt telling me to login to something or another so I can "Level Up" and gain XP rewards, then an error message because it failed to login to XBox Live that cycled through multiple times as I cancelled out, before finally allowing me the privilege of playing as a guest on my own computer. And then I get a splash page filled with advertising crap of other products, which then gives me more errors when I tried to 'x' out of it. What an ungodly abomination that is an utterly appropriate living metaphor for what "modern" OSs have turned into. I can't wait until everything also has "AI" shoved into it. It'll be great.
- Etheryte 2y ago
  Watch ads as AI plays solitaire for you, now only $1.99.
- z3t4 2y ago
  Software has never been easier to make, there have never been more software developers, yet we are stuck with software monopoly
- vel0city 2y ago
  That version of Microsoft Solitaire Collection released ~12.5 years ago.

somenameforme 2y ago

Win 7 felt like that sweet balance between modernity and functionality, especially before Microsoft started backporting the "telemetry" and other "features" from Win10 to Win7. Everything since then seems to serve little purpose other than revenue generation driven solely by forced obsolescence.

yellowapple 2y ago

If Microsoft had just kept iterating on Windows 2000 forever and never developed past XP/Vista/7/etc. I probably wouldn't be a Linux user today.