• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    MS’s antics extend well beyond Windows, unfortunately. There are long blogs and writeups dedicated to it.

    But what you said is also kinda true. 7 and XP worked reasonably well as long as you didn’t mess with them, push their bounds too much, or use them for anything “weird.” But you also probably missed a lot of dysfunction in the background.

    I’m not trying to shill for Windows 7/XP era OSX or linux or anything either. But Windows has always been kinda notorious.

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      12 hours ago

      I never really got into OS modding until recently, so that could be why everything felt smooth until the end. Looking back I suspect a lot of my good experience chalked down to luck.

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        12 hours ago

        This is true of all OSes TBH. Issues arise when you start to mess with them.

        Remember this if you switch to linux.

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          I’ve been on Linux for the last year, that’s definitely something I learned the hard way multiple times on the path. I’m very nervous about the move towards “AI” handling a lot of that stuff.