The incredible thing is that Windows 10 was already near perfect. It would make sense to increase performance and security, but they changed the UI without improving an iota of user productivity, including removing key features of the product. Almost ever change in the past few years made Windows worse. Windows leadership should be fired and replaced by people who are actually Windows users, not MacOS users.

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cosmic_cheese 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If they’d just taken Windows 10 and applied the Windows 11 theme (Fluent) that would’ve made for an OS that I wouldn’t have minded leaving on my gaming PC. That didn’t happen, and so now it’s now running Linux.

> Windows leadership should be fired and replaced by people who are actually Windows users, not MacOS users.

As a longtime Mac user, Windows leadership decisions don’t make any sense to me either. I have precisely zero interest in making 11 my primary OS… XP, 7, or 10 wouldn’t have been ideal but if I had no choice but to work with Windows those would be greatly preferable to 11.

	▲	globalnode 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		as an avid gamer, win11 is the one that pushed me to use linux only (edit: along with the fact that proton and wine make games playable on linux!!!). i would have LIKED to keep using windows but the way they treat their customers is unforgivable. when i go to a restaurant i give them 2 chances at annoying me before i go elsewhere, i gave the windows team what feels like a hundred chances. dont care what they do now, theyre history. edit again: do they even need pc business, they make all their profits from server stuff now, they may as well wrap up the pc os division ;)
	▲	ToucanLoucan an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> As a longtime Mac user, Windows leadership decisions don’t make any sense to me either. To be sure, as another Mac user, they make sense in that they want Apple's revenue and reputation. The problem is they categorically refuse to invest in their engineering staff to even remotely the degree Apple does, which is reflected in the "quality" of the products on offer. Everyone wants to be Apple, and they're all convinced despite ongoing proof to the contrary, that they can do it for pennies on the dollar. It's genuinely kind of pathetic how desperate they are to be Apple.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Win2KPro was the peak. Windows 7 wasn't terrible, and you could select the Windows 2000 UI. It's been downhill since then.

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WarOnPrivacy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I really liked Win2KPro. My son has a copy of Windows Neptune he fires up now and then.

But I also had lots of fun when Code Red and Nimda came around - full perm file navigation on computers everywhere. Any Win2k box knocking on my firewall was telling me it was wide open for use.

	▲	testing22321 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I remember building a lc for a client, installing 2k then SP2. Clicking around installing our software thinking “this could be my main machine. This would be good” Then it got a virus. 30 minutes after I finished installing windows.

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mschuetz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've recently switched from windows to Mac and it was so refreshing using a system that does not purposely work against the user. I don't agree with many design decisions in Mac (wtf is up with tabbing into apps I've closed, or not being able to tab through instances of an app without a separate shortcut?!) but at least they're not shoving telemetry and ads down your throat.

	▲	flenserboy 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		(many) apps keep running without windows — all you closed was the last open window. cmd-~ switches between windows within a running app. this has been the case since the classic Mac days, & while it seems to drive those who come from Windows bonkers, long-term Mac users (at least all I've known) appreciate this small aspect of macOS as it makes a clear distinction between apps & windows. newer apps (some from Apple) which break this model are still maddening to use.

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mapontosevenths 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Almost ever change in the past few years made Windows worse.

No, it's just made it worse for you. You aren't the customer though. Enterprises are customers, you're just a lowly user.

Hopefully one day someone at Microsoft will remember that customers are actually made out of users.

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xscott an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure you meant Windows NT 4. It's all kind of down hill after that, with worthwhile stopping points at Windows 2000 and Windows 7.

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Melatonic 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Every other windows is always terrible

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gjsman-1000 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pff… remember Cortana?

	▲	jensenbox 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Windows 7 was the perfect OS for me.
	▲	SP3269 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes. And Tay.