my unreasonably strong opinions on windows os
as someone unreaosnably obsessed with tech for most of my life i have always had overly strong opinions on this. anyways. really got to make a ranking when fuming over having to switch to win11 after getting a new laptop. so:
5. windows 8. dogshit operating system. what the fuck was that start menu. my primary school had a bunch of shitty surface pros with it. they were always updatign??? always??? so many fixes im sure for such a shit os. i hate it. i hate the design the ui the colours and the shit start menu. it sucked.
4. windows 11. currently using it. the entire design vexes me greatly. nice job windows yes please move the start menu into the middle. who asked for that. at least they let you change it, which shockes me because theres very little else you can do to change things in comparison to previous os. everything is getting locked away from you as a customer. the less tech literate you are the easier they can sell you stupid crap. and speaking of stupid crap, im so sick of AI. get copilot out of my bloody computer. god bless winaero tweaker for making all that registry tweaking easy. godsend.
3 / 2. windows 10 / windows xp. idk theyre both on a similar level for me. i have a suspicion that windows xp would have been my favourite but my memories of using it arent as strong, since it was just on the family computer as opposed to windows 10 on my personal laptop. windows 10 had a ton of flaws but i was used to it i guess. and since i never updated it towards the end i never got ai shoved on me. it really shouldnt be stopping support so soon, but i guess they want to make you upgrade. windows xp was pretty good all round i mean. i cant really think of any flaws beyond any security issues of the time, not that that really mattered to child me. the colours are a bit jarring compared to everything today but is that really a problem...everything looks the same design-wise now and its boring as hell. bring back the simple start menu
1. windows 7 my beloved. i miss it. definitely peaked there. the glassy design? gorgeous. the start menu was still nice and plain and intuitive to navigate. cant say i recall any stupid search results like windows 10/11 push onto you in the start menu. i dont recall any glaring flaws in it either. it was very nice to use and i miss it and theres a reason everyone liked it so much i suppose. its a shame security issues are a thing. and lack of compatability i suppose.
anyways, like with pretty much everythnig else tech wise, windows sucks these days. honeslty probably chock full of spyware. if i didnt like gaming so much and just the convenience of it all id switch to linux fully.