I mean, I am not that old, but I used XP in my childhood. It was better than Windows 7 and infinitely better than 8. Windows 8 was even worse than Vista.
https://i.nostrimg.com/125efec14e3e561534601c535b4e3f639389ef0bf56868a37444256458209205/file.jpg


I am.


XP was gonna when I was in high school. It’s not that old. I have never seen a win8


Yep I was 18 🤷♂


Windows 8 was evil to the core, from the design to the bugs 🤢


I still remember windows ‘95 which had a brilliant UI for that time haha 😂


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I used it during elementary, it was simple and robust.


I am even older, where is the Windows 3.1 screenshot?


Peak windows is windows 2000


I'm much more older (unfortunetely). The first Windows I "used" was the 3.1. It was completely useless.
But I also saw Windows 2.0. And character based "Windows", the IBM TopView.
Even I saw the original version (Jobs and Gates stealed this), it was the SmallTalk


I used to use Win3.1...


The first one I ever saw

https://image.nostr.build/7e06a89ae5ca604cd8cff43261a7e942b3553f16c8890bffe234ff4a7a99b74d.jpg


I'm this old

https://image.nostr.build/eb69beeeac128964322a1eab66ad09b88edb7e5b10bac9defb0f31e727b9cad2.jpg


This looks cool ngl


Immediately gets blue screen of death. https://i.nostr.build/oYDR.gif


I remember booting up limewire to rip some music on XP 😂😂. Windows 8 is by far the worse Windows of my lifetime.


I’ve run every Microsoft OS since MS-DOS 6.22.

I think there is a tendency to idealize memories, to look back on them with rose tinted glasses. Windows 95 was one of the best versions of Windows *upon release* in my best attempt at remembering. Windows 98 was broken at release and wasn’t trustworthy until 98 SE.

Windows ME was arguably the worst version of Windows. It famously crashed during Bill Gates’ demo of it. I had the misfortune to run this 98 + Microsoft Plus abomination for over a year.

Windows 2000 Professional was stable, but slow as Christmas. It wasn’t really meant to be used by consumers, so that kinda makes sense.

Windows XP was a good bit faster, but had nightmares with drivers for any hardware released prior (owing to it being a new kernel) and struggled with stability until SP3 and 4.

Windows Vista introduced UAC which was almost universally hated. We still have it, so Microsoft won that one. It actually became fairly useable during its last SP.

Windows 7 was the last major upgrade to the Windows kernel to date. By far the most loved version of Windows, Microsoft focused on security and performance issues. UAC bugs were mostly fixed and the UI was cleaned up. I ran this one through its entire lifecycle and it was a clean OS.

Windows 8 was Windows 7 with an early attempt at making Microsoft relevant in the tablet space. I feel sorry for anyone who endured this. They managed to get everything wrong.

Windows 10 was Windows 7 with aero basically shut off and strangely ran faster on the same hardware very often than Windows 7 did. Gamers seem to love this OS as DirectX became really good around this period and the OS got cleaned up of a lot of bloat.

Windows 11 is Windows 7 with aero turned back on. It continues to unify the UI. Microsoft has mostly innovated on the UI level, and of course added telemetry and online services in the age of Chromebooks and cloud computing. Security has also been a focus, and it’s the first version of Windows I’ve ever been able to run for two years without a third party anti-virus and not had to reinstall.

Windows 12 is shaping up to be the first innovation in the underlying OS made since Windows 7. Indications are it will be an immutable operating system with atomic updates. I expect ARM support will be a primary focus. Microsoft may be late to that party however as ARM licensing has become a nightmare and MS’s primary partner for ARM (qualcomm) is now investing heavily in RISC-V.

Just my two cents on Windows history to add to the conversation. 🤣


This was the best startup screen IMHO.


This is only a monitor/klav :-) What type of DEC computer have you used? PDP 11. Or the "new" one, the WAX? And what opsys?


lol, this was what was current when I was studying ASP/VBscript in 2003

This was the first PC I used https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/TRS-80_Color_Computer_1_front_right.jpg


Windows XP was what convinced me to stop using Windows 😂

My first computing experience was on these bad boys.

https://i.nostr.build/05vn.jpg


Oh, you are a youngling then 😄 I have been there from 3.11 and that's not even how I started...


Love it 🤍


My trust issues stem from the WIN 8 release. 😂

I installed windows classic shell and refused to update to WIN 10 until a few weeks ago.

Hoping to transition to Linux before WIN 10 end of life.


I was a fan of Windows NT 4.0, even for personal use. Very capable, at the time. Win7sp3 was their game changer, though. That said, it's 'nix over every other OS.


OMG what a sad life 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just a joke don't be nervous. 🤙


Mine was back and forth between Microsoft DOS and IBM. 🤣

Those were the days.


Tbf I wasn’t stuck with Windows. I also ran Slackware off floppies, then went to SuSE Professional 7.


I didn't use Slackware but SuSE did. 🤙


SuSE used to be the bomb. It’s still good, but I can’t trust it until they get done selling themselves back and forth. They just sold again. 🤦♂


I miss my 7 cd set. 🤣


I can understand you. I usually try different Linux flavors but for everyday life I like Ubuntu.


Same. I’m giving Nix a run right now. Fedora at work.


Man, I really liked nix 🤙


So far so good. I don’t like that they don’t respect the .config folder though. Neovim config can’t be shared with my other ‘nix’s.


You always post most thoughtful responses. I really love them.


Same back at you brother. I have a lot of respect for your takes on stuff. 💪❤🫂


Tbf I’ve been looking at going *back* to Unix. 🤣


You are not as young as you seem to be 🤣🤣🤣


You and me both! 😂 I resisted windows 10 for a while too and clung to 7 after 8 turned me off big time.


I had Commodore 64 and after that an Amiga 500 🔥


I had Red Hat 6 that got free in a Linux for Dummies book back then.

It didn't last because I had one of those awful winmodems and couldn't get online.


I had to get a new computer and was forced to get win 8 because at that time, new computers were preloaded with WIN 8.
I never would have upgraded. 😂


That’s the worst! 😂🤣


It's rather interesting to note the weird regionalism with those early computing systems before DOS & Win 3.11 became the standard.

FWIW, my Catholic schools had Apple IIs. Ironically, the mostly black school had newer fancier versions with colour screens. OTOH, they charged extra for computer classes, and had zero qualms about excluding students that didn't pay.


My friend jokingly noted that the tools he uses to operate a train in New York are museum pieces in Madrid.


It's funny how Atari to you is a micro computer, while to most people, it's a *video game console*.