12 years old when Windows 95 was installed on our 486 PC. Such a change from Windows 3.1 I do remember my dad jumping back to Windows 3.1 atleast once, likely

12 years old when Windows 95 was installed on our 486 PC. Such a change from Windows 3.1 I do remember my dad jumping back to Windows 3.1 atleast once, likely for the reason of performance/memory issues at the time with Win95 - but he did go back to it. Overall, it was a big step. A couple of years later, likely to run Quake better that in did on our 486, he built his own PC. Pentium 133. I couldn't remember what RAM and HD space it had. Maybe 32MB RAM with 200GB disk or something. I am just guessing. Regardless, running Windows 95 on it was night and day. High resolutions and smooth experience! It likely crashed a lot but when you had nothing really to compare it to, it is annoyances that were not that big of a deal back then. You just accepted it. Of course, playing Quake on it was an absolute dream. A year or so later - we then had 3dfx cards. Good times! Moving to Windows 98 just didn't seem like a big step to me. Windows 98 looked exactly the same as 95 except the desktop was riddled with icons to the internet. I hated it. Eventually you moved over it. Looking back, Win98 was likely a heavily improved Win95 and didn't crash as often. Again, these are things forgotten in time. How times changed. I also had Windows 2000 at University and then moved to Windows XP. I had to keep reinstalling WinXP every 6 months as my mouse cursor would start to move downwards on its own. As much as I liked XP (eventually) it was the starting point of moving over to Linux. My experience with Vista was not great. Again, from memory felt very bloated. Windows 7 was good. Never used Windows 8. Windows 10 was good. As for Windows 11... its simply mixed with pros and cons.