The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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Valis Wade said:
Since we've left this thread hanging on using XP in current day, I'm curious - do we have farmers here who some retards from 4cuck's /g/ like to call "baby ducks"? As in, people who still use Windows 7/8.1 to this day. I'm really interested to learn about your experience using an "outdated" OS in this day and age.
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I went back to Windows 7 for a while until recently. It's mostly fine with VXKex which lets you run programs compiled for newer windows apis. I had more challenges with the hardware support for Win7 in just getting it set up, would be trivial with an older PC though.
 
As I am reading rants of Win11 I come to conclusion that either you work on heavy load applications and do some resource-draining computing or it was installed on unsupported configuration (i.e bad CPU and so on). I have Win11 on my Intel 13000H with GeForce 3050 and 16GB of RAM and since installation I haven't got any issues with the system whatsoever. No crash, no hiccup. Nothing notorious as mentioned by previous fags.
I am also curious where the hatred come for each and every Windows iteration because when Windows XP launched it was also praised by press and tech journalists while users on forums were bithing for its backwards compatibility with 9X software, drivers error and so on. The view changed over time but the bitching for each new released version stays.
 
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TerribleUser09 said:
As I am reading rants of Win11 I come to conclusion that either you work on heavy load applications and do some resource-draining computing or it was installed on unsupported configuration (i.e bad CPU and so on). I have Win11 on my Intel 13000H with GeForce 3050 and 16GB of RAM and since installation I haven't got any issues with the system whatsoever. No crash, no hiccup. Nothing notorious as mentioned by previous fags.
I am also curious where the hatred come for each and every Windows iteration because when Windows XP launched it was also praised by press and tech journalists while users on forums were bithing for its backwards compatibility with 9X software, drivers error and so on. The view changed over time but the bitching for each new released version stays.
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I wanna tease you with the "works on my machine" reaction image, but I don't have it handy.
I plead the 17th amendment, meaning I claim autism if this is off, but shouldn't W11 be able to handle heavier loads than W10 if that's the case?
 
TerribleUser09 said:
As I am reading rants of Win11 I come to conclusion that either you work on heavy load applications and do some resource-draining computing or it was installed on unsupported configuration (i.e bad CPU and so on). I have Win11 on my Intel 13000H with GeForce 3050 and 16GB of RAM and since installation I haven't got any issues with the system whatsoever. No crash, no hiccup. Nothing notorious as mentioned by previous fags.
I am also curious where the hatred come for each and every Windows iteration because when Windows XP launched it was also praised by press and tech journalists while users on forums were bithing for its backwards compatibility with 9X software, drivers error and so on. The view changed over time but the bitching for each new released version stays.
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XP was a piece of shit; it was just less of a piece of shit than 9x was. Anyone who says otherwise was 12 years old or younger in the year 2000.

As for Win 11:
  • The UI is full of glitches.
  • Thread contention can lock the OS, something I have not seen in decades
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The Ugly One said:
XP was a piece of shit; it was just less of a piece of shit than 9x was. Anyone who says otherwise was 12 years old or younger in the year 2000
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What do you mean the OS where you couldn't use a USB (only PS/2) mouse and keyboard during login but worked afterwards is bad?
 
Curry Teafag said:
Least troublesome Windows so far for me was 8.1. Yes, that one that virtually everyone seems to hate.
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Win8 gravest sin was being focused for tablets and phones, were it not for that...
Win11 suffers a similar fate with the touchpad AIO-ish focus, especially on the menu, other than general jeetiness that is.
 
StacticShock said:
Win8 gravest sin was being focused for tablets and phones, were it not for that...
Win11 suffers a similar fate with the touchpad AIO-ish focus, especially on the menu, other than general jeetiness that is.
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Windows 8's shell and whatnot (regardless of how fucking shit it is to use on a real computer) is generally stable and seems to have been designed with some level of care towards it. As an OS (ignoring the UX disaster) Windows 8 is a solid improvement on the foundations of 7.

Windows 11 is the complete opposite, a broken piece of shit all the way through.
 
the rat said:
What do you mean the OS where you couldn't use a USB (only PS/2) mouse and keyboard during login but worked afterwards is bad?
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You didn't use PS/2 peripherals in XP times like God intended?
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StacticShock said:
even the clankers know it.
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>if both USB and PS/2 ports are not working, try PS/2 anyway because it's just that fucking good
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I had this happen to me on two separate machines running XP, a Neoware CA22 and some ThinkCenter from 2004. Only realised it was an issue with XP when i got the ThinkCenter. XP sucks.
 
Win XP also has the distinction of a massive security fix, SP2, that boosted the resource requirements so high that it crippled machines that ran just fine before it dropped.
 
jeff7989 said:
I got brainwashed by WP 8.1 and I thought 8.1 menu was comfy. Best part of 8.1 was that MS actually worked on optimizing for efficiency and it felt smoother on my computer than 7.
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The 8.1 start screen is virtually the same barring the change of where the all applications button is, from being in a hidden right click context menu that you're never told about to being visible when you move the mouse.
 
TerribleUser09 said:
I have Win11 on my Intel 13000H with GeForce 3050 and 16GB of RAM and since installation I haven't got any issues with the system whatsoever. No crash, no hiccup. Nothing notorious as mentioned by previous fags.
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If that's any consolation, I'm in the same boat.

The default position is to give the benefit of the doubt because people use very different PCs in very different situations, you can't just hand out PEBCAK badges like rice at a wedding, "it works on my machine" isn't an acceptable defense, bla bla bla. Sure, fair enough. But after a while this constant screeching about increasingly absurd and cataclysmic problems (that you just so happen to mysteriously dodge every time) becomes white noise at most.

I've been the computer guy of my entourage since forever, which means I've installed Windows on a broad range of computers, from high-end desktops to supposedly nightmare scenarios like cheap tablets with 4GB of RAM or the Steam Deck. Each time there's a new headline about "here's some new terrible thing that happened, haha bet you feel stupid for using Windows now," what am I even supposed to do except shrug and wait for any of that shit to happen to me, like at all, ever.

The one thing I'll gladly concede is the Win11 playmobil context menu: disabling it is not a simple user-accessible toggle (like the Start menu in the middle instead of to the left where it fucking belongs), so you bet many people who hate it don't know how to get rid of it. Or they think you shouldn't have to, and they're right.

The context menu is such a 101 comfort zone fuckup that a good chunk of Win10 holdouts probably boil down to this. Many people have been blindly right-clicking for decades now, you don't get to mess with that muscle memory and not give a simple option to switch back.
 
Today while cleaning I came across one of my old laptops from HS. It was a Pentium Windows 7 machine that was purchased circa 2010 and I almost cried. I booted it up (and kept it off the network) and just started clicking through the settings, and opening up file explorer just to admire what is IMO the BEST os of all time.

I’ve since switched to MacOS as my main platform, though still game on Windows. It’s fucking el retardo what modern computing has turned into - all of it is driven by sociopaths like Sam Altman and Zuckernigger who could give a fuck less about what benefits the users.
 
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