• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    For me the last golden era of Windows was around 2019 when they were making a lot of changes that helped out devs like WSL 1 and 2 and the new terminal. I guess I should’ve air quotesed golden era because even Windows 10 had ads built in. Prior to that it was 7 but that might just be rose tinted goggles.

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      3 days ago

      Naaah, Win 7 was best. They didn’t fuck with control panel, Aero slapped, system was fast, stable and customizable. Win 7 was a system made for the user and felt like future.

      8 was, from what I heard, not that bad and 10 entered freefall. 11 got jetpack, but was badly oriented so it boosted itself down.

      So no tinted glasses. 7 was actually great.

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        32 minutes ago

        windows XP and 7 were there last attempts at selling a OS to run apps.

        windows 8/10 was there first attempt to building a ecosystem, designed around the principles of EEE & subscribe…

        whole reason for ai In 11 and coming 12, is to build a dependence and make you subscribe for a copilot subscription so your PC isn’t slow when your trying to get it to load apps at a prompt as they removed the launcher again…