7 was the greatest version of Windows. It had a clean, ergonomic, friendly, and easy to use user interface, a rock solid foundation that would continue to function for literally months if not years without crashing or rebooting, a form of respect for the user's wishes and wouldn't actively get in their way when they wanted to do something, a unified place for all the settings, and at least some degree of privacy. The wallpapers all had their own sort of category ranging from nature to abstract art to random CGI.
Now look at Windows 11 and even Windows 10. The user interface is plain, lifeless, and inefficient. If you do one thing wrong, Windows Explorer will completely crash for completely no reason or just start leaking memory randomly. Bugs are everywhere because after Windows 8, Microsoft canned their entire QA team and essentially gave the end user the responsibility of testing their code. Don't want to update because you're afraid it could brick your system or you're in the middle of writing something? Too bad. Your computer is now going to restart at 12 AM while you're asleep and if you have exactly one thing just slightly out of line, your system is completely bricked and you will be able to do absolutely nothing about it. Settings are located in several different places depending on when the fuck it was introduced during the Windows lifecycle so you need to either access the ancient Control Panel or dig around in the Settings app for some lightly hinted text in a section that is only tangentially related to what you're looking for. Want to maintain at least some degree of privacy? Fuck you. You now need a Microsoft account just to set up and use your system (giving them access to all your data for sale to three-letter agencies of their choice), and you better not think about practicing any naughty activities like browsing your favorite wrongthink forums, because they collect all your usage data "for your safety". Remember when you could natively customize literally every facet of the system interface to look how you want? Nope, not allowed anymore. You will use either our light mode or our half-assed dark mode. Your choice of wallpapers is now basically just corporate slop CGI because that's exactly what you're using.
How the mighty have fallen.
. good job bro i fell for it hook line and sinker
