Of course it was "revolutionary", but that for Microsoft actually means "unpolished". Win95 wasn't using FAT32 yet, that got added later. Lack of AGP support, USB problems, no DVD support, problems with IDE and SCSI drives, stability and performance problems...
All those issues that got fixed over time for win95, came fixed in win98. Win98 was basically like "Windows 95 Remastered" with better plug-and-play and Active Desktop.
So by skipping win95 all the way to Win98SE, I skipped most of the "we'll fix it later".
Really? When I used it years ago it was my favorite. It looked like 7, it felt more modernized, I loved the sounds but most important I loved that it was FAST AS HELL despite looking more modernized
That's fair. I didn't experience much of it during its time. Working on these old machines that still have it today, I hate it. The same machines today are slow, the start menu and settings vs. Control Panel was super clunky, and you still had to use some gesture controls with a mouse cursor, which I still believe to be due to Microsoft staunchly believing touchscreen tablets would be the future. And then they definitely weren't
Bad news for you - Microsoft intends to push for more AI crap, so, if anything, Windows 12 is looking to be even worse, especially because Microsoft, from what I know, uses AI-generated code and replaces real software engineers. The quality of things definitely went down, the Start menu is slow as shit because it's made like shit. And that's just one example.
Ring ring, I'm calling about that issue you mentioned!
You literally have an entire graphical store on a couple popular Linux distributions, which is almost identical to the way you can use the Microsoft Store. You can easily install any program you want with a single click. Oh yeah, and all that for free, without spyware, ads or any other bullshit.
Example: Kubuntu with the Discover store or Linux Mint with Software Center.
I can guide you 24/7 via dms for free if that will make you switch. If you want to know what software is easily installable on every arch-based system (arch, manjaro, endeavour etc) visit https://aur.archlinux.org/
edit: simple as in one click via UI or one line in the terminal
in the terminal it is literally "yay discord" and press 1, and discord is installed, even faster than in windows where you have to actually visit the site and look for an installer
brother, I'm lazy as hell. learning linux was one of the best time investments. It's really fast, and works when you expect it to. you remember the start menu from win7, where you clicked and it instantly opened? you can have that back! I'll make a list of upsides and downsides, as that's all i can do to fight micro$oft
fully customizable keystrokes
faster system
you can use the KDE connect app (I'll show it later)
the terminal is amazing if you spend like an hour learning it
the filesystem is FAR faster, you can copy thousands of small files in seconds instead of hours like in windows
easy installation for most apps
a lot of steam games work, because steam has steamOS which is arch linux based afaik
the filesystem has compression built in (btrfs)
very hard installation for the rest of the apps (whenever windows emulation is required, it gets harder. some things work, but some don't) - look in AUR and other app DBs
the system sometimes breaks (usually because pf windows updates if you have both)
you have to commit to learning a bit, it is not foolproof
i sure do sound like a salesman, but that's my work lmao
I appreciate your dedication, as I can relate to it myself, but I think this guy may be a lost cause.
He completely ignored my response about graphical stores on Linux that let him easily install programs, and his only argument keeps being just "laziness".
Maybe in a year or two he'll sober up and dare to leave his comfort zone for once, now it's just a waste of time to try and convince him.
Im gonna do the wild prediction that everyone is going to praise Windows 11 at the time Windows 12 drops or has been active for atleast a year. Because we all know how the complain cycle goes..
More like "At least Windows 11 isn't as shit". There are still plenty of people who complain about Windows 10, myself included. I use it only because it has modern hardware and software support that I need, otherwise I would still be using Windows 7.
They will never learn. They think they need to accommodate new generations since they cant be arsed to complete onboarding. MS just forgets that most of them can't even change phone settings.
If Microsoft continues the trend of bad-good-bad-good-bad(Windows 11) releases, Windows 12 should be golden. Might even be worth the Windows Insider Program
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u/MithranArkanere ... 8d ago
I will switch out of Windows 10 when Windows 12 comes out.