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Windows 7 was as fancy as Vista and as snappy as XP (though more memory heavy). You can only understand why Windows 7 was so loved if you relied on it and trie

Windows 7 was as fancy as Vista and as snappy as XP (though more memory heavy). You can only understand why Windows 7 was so loved if you relied on it and tried Vista before and Windows 8 after. Vista made hardware absolutely crawl when it was new. Windows 8 was a UX disaster. In comparison, Windows 7 was fast and functional. I guess you have to compare 7 to XP as well as the other option was to stay on XP forever. Windows 7 had a lot of improvements over XP though, most natively being 64 bit. So, the big difference between XP and 7 was modern software. Other than the telemetry, Windows 10 was objectively better than 7. Although they did add a lot of bloat on top of 10 over time.

kennysoona 2y ago
> Other than the telemetry, Windows 10 was objectively better than 7. Some of the downsides other than telemetry: - Not being able to select only security updates - It requiring more technical hacking to ensure forced updates don't force reboots - An embarrassing mix of interfaces, with the migration from the classic Control Panel only half done. - The forced included software which also requires more hacking that in should to remove.
hulitu 2y ago
> Other than the telemetry, Windows 10 was objectively better than 7. The GUI/UX/UI in Windows 10 is a total shitshow. The introduction of RCE "Apps" in contrast to native programs was also something terrible.