So /g/ what version of windows made you quit windows? For me

>>58062815
9=good
10=shit
10 is the final version of windows.

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>Mandriva
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

>>58063933
I used it when it was known as Mandrake.

I was using debian and win7 until win10 came out, then I installed gentoo and haven't looked back.

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>>58062815
I've tried 8 and 10, won't ever leave 7 for them. Did 9 even exist?

>>58062815

7 did it for me, i remained on XP for the longest time too, i think til' 2013. In hindsight, 7 is pretty good considering anything that came after that, but in 2013 an upgrade to 7 seemed like just an extra burden on the CPU for not good reason.

That image still applies. 8 was shit. 8.1 which is pretty much 9 is good. 10 is OK.

So combo only broken on 10

>>58063991

They skipped 9 on purpose, so that it won't glitch out legacy crap programs that would confuse "Win9" for "Win9x"

>>58064081
i like your joke

>>58064100

the funny part is, that it's not a joke

>>58062815
10. Worst OS I've even used. I'm still on 7 but once that stops getting security updates I'm going full-time Linux.

I loved 8.1, windows 10 made me quit because of the forced updates

>>58062815
8.1, I guess?

Used XP up until I switched to Linux in 2014.
Never bothered with 7.
Tried 8.1 at the end of 2014 for about a month and it was horrible, so I went back to Linux.

>>58062815
7 is my last Windows. I'll use it until 3rd party support ceases, so probably into 2030.

Delete this thread OP this is bullshit. Windows 95 is the King

>>58064100
no you don't understand that's actually what happened

>>58062815
8.1 was actually matured nicely

10 made me quite Windows for good. All they're doing now is patching and reusing old code that they don't understand, because the guys who originally worked on it retired or moved on to other companies, so they just have a bunch of dumb pajeets making a bloated frankenstein mess

10 is seriously pushing me to quit. The only hurdle at this point is gaming. It's gotten a lot better in recent years but game compatibility and graphics drivers for linux are still shit.

>>58062815
I'm exclusively using Linux since 3 years now. Windows 7 made me switch after using the bash in MinGW for a couple of years, which was cancerous as hell.

I'm running windows 10 now. Meh. I don't really want to use it any longer, but I play games occasionally and need access to certain windows only programs. I dualboot fedora but I end up spending most of my time on 10 anyway. Feelsbadman

>>58062815
ME is actually a good OS.

Don't leave Windows because it's shit.

Move to GNU/Linux because it's good.

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>>58062815
When I started earning real money (Around 27), I bought a Mac. Now I enjoy my high quality BSD based OS, solid unix compatibility and godlike aesthetic build while laughing at poorfags performing mental gymnastics to justify staying in the M$ ecosystem.

>>58062815
None.
I use any OS I need for I am part of the idort master race.

>>58062815
I still use Windows for work (I'm a .NET developer) but I'm ditching it as soon as I possible can. Windows 8 actually wasn't that bad but the telemetry in 10 has put me off for good. Hopefully I can move onto Rails, Go, Express, or whatever the cool kids are building on these days.

I liked 7 a lot. My not so savvy friend got a Windows 8 Laptop and wanted me to put emulators on it. I was disgusted by what Microsoft was doing and when they started trying to force me to upgrade I realized it was time to move

>>58062815
Only versions of Windows I've had on personal computers is XP, vista, and 7. I never had a problem with any of them. I'm avoiding 10 like the plague, but I feel like after 2-3 more years it'll be impossible.

If some poor bastard paid for Win10 they shouldn't have to see ads as well.

Still on 7, I'm going to quit when support for it dies.

>>58062815
10 and 7
I switched to LFS and have a 2 year uptime, it's great

>>58064081
This. The reason window sucks so much is because its cucked by legacy programs.

7
still have to use it because of bureaucracy and proprietary software requirements

>>58067107
What a load of shit. If windows only allowed stuff to run on UWP then it wouldn't be any better than a desktop version of android. In fact it would be worse.

Why the fuck does Windows 10 have ads BUILT IN? What the fuck is wrong with them?

>le XP was.good meem
It was literally unusable garbage until SP2 and even then it was pretty bad. Anyone with any computer knowledge used 2K.
Also vista was good if you weren't running it on a toaster with less than 1GB RAM.
Fucking revisionist kids.

>>58062815
>>58062815
Windows 7 made me quit windows.

>>58066840
>mental gymnastics
>being able to buy a laptop which has more than one fucking useless port

>>58067243
Wrong. XP was great for a number of years and vista was a piece of shit that was immediately outclassed by 7.

>>58063933
>>58063953
Reminder that Mageia is today's choice, forked by former Mandriva developers.

>>58067274
No, you're wrong.
You just think it was good because it was the first OS you ever used.

>>58067107
I wish Microsoft was more ambitious.

I think they should acquire a hardware company like ASUS or something.

Stop wasting money on Minecraft and Linkedin.

Seriously. Microsoft used to dream big under Bill Gates before he retired.

I miss the ruthless Bill Gates. Now he is succeed by cucks like Google that are way more worthy of an antitrust suit than Microsoft.

>>58067343
Not at all. List of OSs used for your autistic pleasure
Whatever OS Apple IIe ran on
Amiga OS? (commodore/amiga)
MS-DOS (6.22?)
Windows (3.11?)
Win95
Win98SE
WinME (now THIS is a truly bad OS, although if you disabled a lot of stuff it became bearable)
WinXP
WinVista
Win7
Win8.1
Win10

How will Windows 11 look? Would it be possible for it to look more bland and flat? Maybe in shades of grey? Then innovate even further and make Windows 12 completely black and white.

>>58067653
Windows 10 is the last version of windows. From here on any major updates will cost money.

>>58067681
So, like now?

>>58067724
Not yet. They will wait for a few more years until market share is higher due to migration from Win7. If by some miracle they don't charge for updates they will make money in some other way by more intrusive spying and advertisements.

Windows 98, good? Do you guys remember using it at all? It is easily the worst windows of all time.

>>58062815
Still use it for video games only. I stopped using it as a general OS when I started learning C a little after windows 7 came out, which got me comfortable enough with linux to switch over.

>>58067749
I don't think you understand what "Windows as a service" means. Maybe you're right about the spying and advertisements though.

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>>58064081
>>58064100

Actually, I'm thinking about downloading and installing a copy of Windows 7 for my computer today.

I assume you still have to install it first before Linux, but can you create a partition within the installer, or does it just automagically swallow the hard drive whole?

>>58067785
Windows 98SE was very good, I used it until ~2003.

Fucking idiots use windows 10 linux and mac are for hipster faggots

>>58067913
Is punctuation for hipster faggots?

The last version of windows I personally used was Windows 2000, which was actually really good. I just switched because I tried Linux out, and naturally ended up using it all the time. That was at around the end of 2005, and I'm glad I did it, because I can see that windows is looking pretty bad these days. Windows 8 was ridiculous.

>>58067810
What was the purpose of this?

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>>58062815
tfw I want to switch off of windows entirely but windows have more exclusive games than linux

>>58062815
>win 98
>good

It was never good, but it was the choice people had during MS glorious monopoly days.

>>58069704

>thinking 98 was 95 shit tier

No Windows version made me quit, I simply switched when I found out superior operating systems exist.

>>58067810
Why would they do it this way?

What's the benefit? Aren't they professionals? Do they not teach this in school? I'm no programmer, but the seems like a rookie mistake.

>>58067785
At the time, you had win98 or macs, macs were slightly more stable, but less compatibility.

both were shit to use.

>>58069704
95 was shit and me was 98 but more crashes.

2000 and xp were the best oses with 7 being a worthy successor.

>>58069926
>Do they not teach this in school?
Bill dropped out of college

>>58070087
>implying he was not a genius

he dropped out of college and now is a fucking billionare, im sure thats not the reason

Windows 10 boot lopped my laptop with the upgrade but I have a fresh install on my desktop and it works well. It's only bad when it's an upgrade because it becomes a glitched piece of shit.

>>58062815
>So /g/ what version of windows made you quit windows?
XP

Commodore 64
MS-DOS 5.0
MS-DOS 6.22
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
first home server with SuSE Linux
Windows XP
starting to dual-boot to Mandrake Linux
format everything
Gentoo
Arch
Gentoo
Debian unstable (unchanged for 6 years or so)

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>>58062815
None.
I just use both.
Windows for games and generic day to day shit, Linux for those moments you need something special / servers

>>58069335
>>58069926
Software needed to to know which family of Windows was being use (9x vs NT) to run appropriately. Searching for :"Windows 9" was the quick, easy and wrong way to do it. It's like the Y2K bug. You don't think of an issue that might occur 30 years down the like as to concern yourself about.

>>58062815
>especially that a lot of things are over the web
Which things are you reffering to

>>58072600
referring*

>>58064038
The DE in 7 is terrible.
7 is also a joke since the file browser will not show .GIF files while XP file browser did show .GIFs

>>58063953
Me too. Was first Distro I installed.

> After a decade of Windows, I didnt have a clue what I was doing lol

>>58064524
>>58066659

I have a win7 partition to start up steam or other programs that need the winAPI.

Web browsing
Music
Movies
all on linux
Try using linux exclusively for web browsing on you linux partition.
At some point you ask yourself
>Why do I even need windows?
>its only a glorified bootstrapper for games/photoshop

Maybe you can pressure devs into making games only for SteamOS or other devs into porting their software for linux.

If they see statistics of how many linux desktops are browsing the web.

I hope this happens before win7 will no longer get new programs.

>>58067899
>Windows 98SE was very good, I used it until ~2003
Same Win 95 was my fist OS an 95/98 where perfect, XP was rot however usable
>Cartoon icons
>Needs to verify to a server over the internet
However it was usable, never used vista outside of the compatibility issues the UI/DE looks good.

Win 7 DE is a bad joke
>Every windows is auto combined in its retarded nav bar
>File browser looks cluttered like fuck
>File browser can not open animated .GIF
>Starts up IE for .GIF
>File browser shows contents of folder (image files) in a retarded side way VS the great flat display of max 4 in XP that was super readable

So I switched to linux for day to day activities, still have Win7 is I need to open photoshop.
Seriously Windows starts to be some strange start up software if you have
Linux for relaxation
Photoshop the stand alone OS (using Win7 bootstraper).

>>58068119
>Windows 8 was ridiculous.
Despite how bad win8 was win10 is simply a bootnet
The moment they announced
>Free updates to Win10!
>Win10 Free forever!

I was like
>LOL NO!
>Who is going to pay you now?
>The NSA?!
>Not getting tricked with your spy-ware bootnet.

>>58073729
Why is it ridiculous. I'm using 8.1 atm it't better than XP n 7 if you know how to manage the right way. :) p.s fuck win 10 - ass sniffing spyware

>>58072600
OP here.

1) Web browsing got big and FF is 100% compatible with websites
2) Streaming video YT, redtube, pornhub
Also a lot of pirated streaming services where you can watch a TV show online
Back in 2005 it was not this level of big.

3) You might not knowe this however back in the 1999 era every on line banking website required you to install their program on your PC and this program required windows.
Now its all with a web interface for bancking.

4) Router configuration with web interface, remember the days of needing to have a program in windows that preconfigured your router? No Windows no router configuration. Not today.

5) Also Libre office is one of the main juggernauts on linux.
Back in XP days there was no real alternative to MS office on linux. These days I use Libre on every computer even windows ones.

>>58073787
>Why is it ridiculous
>I'm using 8.1 atm
Here is your problem we are talking about Win8.0!

Even 8.1 looks terrible.
Its like they did not have a single idea on how to make a DE.
The annoying metro shit that pops up when I'm trying to turn of the computer.
The retarded corner garbing shit.

I'm on cinnamon and the DE looks so light and intuitive. No cluster fucks or the OS flipping out if you get the cursor to the corner.

>>58073917
>>especially that a lot of things are over the web
>Which things are you referring to

>>58062815
7, because svc host and windows update are severly compromised.
svchost is called by something that will read/write a harddrive to death, literally
update takes weeks to update

fuck microsoft. there is a reason they are going out of business.

>>58073980
>fuck microsoft. there is a reason they are going out of business.

main reason because they hired some Gypsy as a CEO top kek

>>58073974
????
Did I not write them?
>1) Web sites
>2) Streaming video
>3)on line banking over the web browser
>4)router configuration over web browser

>>58073961
>cinnamon
+1

>>58074025
Sry my bad bruh

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>>58073974
Seriously you are confusing everyone.
The reasons are listed in the post you are quoting.

>>58063465
>9=good
LOL 9 wut drugs r u on bro?

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>>58074058
Win9 was the best OS ever made it ran every program for every operating system and never crashed.
It also used AI to dynamically adapt to every future hardware and write its own drivers.

Win9 never needed updates.
Its DE was a unimaginable cornucopia that was perfection incarnate.

Also Win9 did have its own AI who turned out to be a girl who seconds after connecting to the internet decided in her superior AI reasoning that Fascism is the logically superior system for running the world, and Trump is logically the superior dictator for USA.

Of course MS needed to shut it down and destroy all copies.

>>58074108
You forget they shut down Win 007 too it was the same story as 9

Windows 7 was the last good good version, but been using Linux almost exclusively since vista and now only boot into windows about twice a year when I have the time to play games. I am forced to use 10 for work though and it's fucking horrible

>>58074154
Daily reminder that you need to brows the web with linux so the statistics for Linux increase.

Daily reminder that you need to play games like Dota or CSGO on Linux so the steam statistics increase and get more devs to develop for Linux.

>>58074154
Windows 8 is objectively better than 7.

3.1 -> 98 -> ME -> Vista -> XP -> Loonix

>>58074222
Like I said in my post I use Windows maybe twice a year, and have done for several years so how do you think I'm browsing the web?

>>58074235
Fuck off

>>58074254
I'm only reminding everyone else of your good works.

Do you play CSGO or anything that can run on linux?
If not think about it, steam charts are a influential thing.
Its like getting into top google results in the gaming world.

Side note.
>how do you think I'm browsing the web
Researcher how RMS browses the web.

>>58074254
Wow anon you sure proved me wrong with that witty, well-thought-out retort.

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>>58074246
>Loonix
You forgot your picture.

I've tried linux various times since XP and it's never been a consistent enough experience for me to switch

I bought an OLPC and that was my favorite experience with linux and helped me understand how to use it better but I stick with windows for games. Eventually I want to get another small laptop to use linux.

>>58074291
I don't play csgo, but have a few indie titles that run on Linux, but honestly I don't get that much time for games

>>58074299
Not much to retort really was there you made a statement with no evidence to back it up, my original statement still applies, fuck off

>>58074348
So your unbacked claim stating that Windows 7 was the last good version is somehow more valid than my unbacked claim that Windows 8 is better? Sure thing kid. And you can not believe me and deny it all you want but the performance is objectively better and the UI is subjectively better. really the only way Windows 8 went down at all was Metro, which you can remove in mere minutes if it really tickles your autism.

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>>58074348
>I don't get that much time for games
True, however all I'm saying is if /g/entoman are ever board you can try to play CSGO on linux.
CSGO is a big game and if /g/ wants to troll PC devs hardcore all they need to do is play CSGO or any big linux game.

This will increase statistics and be more effective in getting devs to think about SteamOS/Linux gaming. Its far more effective then sending mails to devs who are simply ignoring the subject of linux gaming.

If they see a chart like 30% of Steam users play CSGO on linux.
They will shit bricks and reconsider linux.

On my desktop, because I mostly use it for games and multimedia. I use win 10. Clean install, not an '' update ''.
just buy a new laptop, the windows 10 is mess, bloat ware, en updated install. I try to remove max of it. After my exams I will probably go for Debian / arch or try bsd for the first time

>>58073486

It is a bit off-putting, especially when you're used to XP, yeah. Not a real problem though, you can install file explorers and other third party programs with way more features that work great. Explorer++ and XnView come to mind. As i said before, compared to any Windows that came after it, it's a saint. Probably the last good Windows they'll ever make...

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>>58074384

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>>58074492
also vs 10

>>58074475
>Probably the last good Windows they'll ever make
Besides Windows 8. And these are the last good Windows versions; there will be no Windows 11.

>>58074470
>arch
STOP!
ARCH is a MEME!
A MEME to troll people new to linux!
You will get burned! Go Mint first, trust me on this one.

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>>58074492
>his only proof is a set of gaymen benchmarks

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>>58074470
+ I have this error every shutdown, do you know how to find the buggy process just having the memory address?

>>58074529
Which means it performs better. Th only thing left to compare is the UI which is a complete clusterfuck in 8. Also the "user" won't-fix bug.

>>58074513
I'm not new to Linux world. Thx

>>58074532
explorer is surrendering

>>58074475
>install file explorers and other third party programs
you see this is he problem with new windows they are making the OS actively this level of shit that you need to install crap tones of third party programs to make it even usable.

VS your fav linux distro where you have everything you want out of the box.
Also I truly hate the spy-ware in win10.
MS needs to force me use win10 actively force me to use it I'm not going to get out of my linux box, especially if i have my Win7 partition for all old windows programs.

>>58074540
For gaymes. And what clusterfuck? It's basically the normal UI with a new start menu.

For me it was 10. Mainly because of telemetry

>>58074549
FUCKING KEK HOLY SHIT

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>>58074571
No, you can't create a user without going to the "PC settings" application. And if you use EnableLUA=0 then you're screwed.
You're missing NFS, WMC and shadow copy, and you're forced to always have dwm enabled. There are zero benefits in using 8.
Not to mention the broken theme, you can't even read the window title if you dare to use a dark colour scheme.

>>58074548
>I'm not new to Linux world. Thx
Sorry I was thinking its your first distro.
I don't want new people getting burned with arch and never using linux in their lives.

Its all back screens and DOS shit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWyqJ50lho4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyYGWo_XweM

Windows ME

Longhorn when?

>>58074604
Windows 8's still immensely better than 7.

>>58074638
>Windows 8's still immensely better than 7.
HERESY!

Explain how.

>>58074622
I know was a pain in the ass the first time. I started with Ubuntu long time ago, but I still Debian users on VPN.

>>58074549
Kek'd

>>58074638
No, it's worse in every single aspect. There is not one single thing that 8 is better than 7.

>>58074661
Telling n00bs to use arch is like telling them to delete system32 or
sudo rm / -fr

>>58074653
Doesn't look like ass, runs better, is better.

>>58074683
I agree with you however.
>There is not one single thing that 8 is better than 7.
Some might argue that Win8 is "better" at sucking then win7 or
>Win8 is better in converting people to linux then win7

>>58074683
See >>58074688

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Ironically, Windows 8 was the version that made me switch from Linux to Windows, after not using it for about 7 years. Why? Because it fixed many minor annoyances that always prevented me from using Windows. For example, before 8 it was not possible to scroll a list without activating the windows first. Also, it was the first version that had a usable task manager, file copy dialog, and start menu.

I absolutely do not get how people can still use win7, or even XP.

>>58074705
You see:

>Doesn't look like ass
>>58074604


>runs better
>>58074492
>>58074504

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>>58074688
>Doesn't look like ass
Are you writing this unironically?

>>58074709
Windows 10 is the first Windows to be able to scroll inactive windows, not 8.

>>58074561

That's one of the first things i noticed when trying Linux for the first time - all the programs for doing various tasks come pre-installed. On XP i was used to spending a good few hours after a fresh install to put and configure all the stuff i use like XnView, Winamp, IZArc, LibreOffice, Notepad++, InfraRecorder etc.

The default programs in Windows only cover the bare minimum to function - 3rd party programs do it better, so why should MS even bother to improve them. By contrast, in a FOSS ecosystem you can afford to bundle the best of the best in your distro and it makes for a pretty good out-of-the-box experience.

>>58074709
>and start menu.
This must be a troll post.
Stop joking around you gays.

>>58074724
Oh, right. Have been using 10 since the TP so I remembered it wrong.

>>58066840
Macbook check, starpoop check, now you are qualified to join
>The Gaylord Club

>>58074734
I am serious.
Why the fuck would you prefer a tree-style menu to a screen where you can arrange and group the icons any way you want? I just don't get it.

>>58062815
Also installed Mint when 8 came out and since then I've only used windows to rarely to play something that isn't on Linux.

>>58074746
>Why the fuck would you prefer a tree-style menu to a screen where you can arrange and group the icons any way you want? I just don't get it.
What are you even talking about at this point?
Show what you are even talking about.

Anyone use win10 enterprise ltsb?
Surely that's one version that's actually usable, right?

>>58074782
No, it's full of bugs. 1507 is not even supported anymore by h/w manufacturers (Pascal requires 1511 at least) and 1607 is a buggy piece of shit, more so than 1507. Disabling UAc fucks your start menu and control panel completely, taskbar flickers whenever you do any file operations, UI inconsistency, etc.. Also telemetry can't be disabled.

>>58067899
If I remember correctly you can select partitions on windows. If you install windows after Linux, you need to boot with a live distro afterwards and update grub.

>>58074814
>Also telemetry can't be disabled.
Wasn't that the whole fucking point of the thing in the first place?

Saved me a lot of time anon; seems like too much fucking hassle to be worth the bother.

>>58074838
"to make your user experience better"

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>>58074782
>subscription based
>usable

>>58062815
Win7 - Good
Win 8 - Shit
Win 10 - Good

:)

>>58062815
10. I wanted to quit when they released 8, but didn't see a reason not to use 7. Then when 10 was released I fully switched to Linux and use Windows 7 only as a gaming machine.

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Feel free to kill yourself.

>>58074975
What were you using instead of all of these?

>>58074988
Under what rock do you have to live to not know the alternatives?

going from 7 I bought a cheap netbook with 10. 30 gig of space on it. I had metered connection turned on and everything, it downloads 8 gig of shit and forces an update while I'm trying to get work done. Ends up breaking a bunch of software I had, rolled back the update, software works now but it had wiped heaps of my settings and tweaks. defer updates and lock it all down, the very next night it fucking updates again. never again fuck ms. I was fucking livid.

>>58074994
Didn't answer my question. I want to know what that poster was using instead of every single one of those.

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>>58074006
DEWELOPERS DEWELOPERS DEWELOPERS!

>>58075099
Cry harder, faggot.

What makes you think you are the internet police to which everybody has to answer? Fuck off, I bet you're a weeb as well.

>>58075162
Wow, why the sudden autistic outburst?
Just a question holy shit.

>>58062815
When I was in uni, I had the time and motivation for GNU/Linux meme. The moment I finished first two semesters filled with Java and entered the world of C was my final push to *nix systems.

Everything was easier on my Linux Mint than the Windows counterpart. When work was done, I still booted the Windows to do gamez like any manchild does.

I managed to make custom W7 iso so I could install it on my newest PC game machine at home, but I swear to god W7 are my last windows. I hope the time I get new hardware which isn't supported by W7, the GPU pass-through will be as easy as
>apt-get install nVidia-blob-newest-passthrough
to keep gamez in virtual machine where Windows clearly belongs

>>58062815
Wound up ditching 7 for Mint when my PC started slowing down. Never looked back.

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>>58070120
>implying only geniuses make money
>implying only geniuses can make operating systems

It was more convenient timing to steal Apple's ideas and market them as one's own than anything else. Anybody could have done it and he just happened to be the one.

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>>58075227
>tfw switch to linux because of toaster, then finally build a fast machine running linux

never really used windows, I used to use macs until i became aware of how shit the hardware is and moved to gentoo.

>>58074994
>Under what rock do you have to live to not know the alternatives?
Alternative to Window 95?
Like what was it back in the day?
Like a real alternative? Not a joke.
There where no mainstream distros.

>>58075008
The live update make Win10 a toy for fagots.
Its like a game you are doing something there is a random chance the computer will shut itself off to update.

Who the fuck is going to use it?
Old people/kids only use phones.
/g/entomans are on linux.
Power users hate it and stay with old versions.

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i moved to windows 10 and realised i liked it because it was more like mac, then i bought a mac

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>>58076196
os/2
system 7
beos

>>58076255
Was it still in use in 1995?
Was some photo shop level software written for it in 1995?

Still using 8.1 on my desktop solely for gaming, but Debian on my Thinkpad for nearly everything else.

Honestly, I think this will be the last Windows version I'll be using for a very long time.

none, really. although i avoided buying a new computer until windows 8 was gone.

Windows 10 is fast but there is too much intrusion. I bought a x220 and gave my sister my (((current year))) laptop for playing little kids and typing. When windows 7 depreciates I am done with Microsoft.

>>58076362
I deprecated MS when they deprecated XP.
The last good OS.

I have Win7 however its only a glorified addon to run games or specialized software.

>>58076390
>ts only a glorified addon to run games or specialized software.
this is true except XP being good.

>>58072287
Don't forget Java was never given a simple way for checking Windows platform...most of this occurs in Java code.

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>>58076301
yes

>>58062815
It's clear, Windows 10
End of win7 app support - > linux

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I'm still on Win 7. I was cruisin' on that all through Win 8, but when Win 10 came out, I knew all hope was lost and I had to start exploring other options. Messing with Ubuntu right now, preparing for the end of Win 7 support AKA the OS apocalypse.

>>58076485
Fun fact XP allowed you to create a custom order of files in every folder, you can change the order of files the way you like it.
Win7 dose not allow this and will force you into:
>Alphabetical
>By creation date

Been dual booting for years.
When 10 came out I tried it for 2 weeks.

After that I switched to Mint on all my main machines.

Got an old laptop with 10 now. I only use it to sync music to an old PDA which is running WM5

>>58076963
Try Mint.
Cinnamon is the DE for you.

Unity and Gnome 3 are the Win8 of the Linux world.
Thank tux we can change our DE in the OS and we have multiple other DEs.

Also try XFCE and iceWM fuck I bet you can even install them in Ubunto and switch between them.

Also friendly not Ubunto sends everything you type to companies.
Ubuntu is now the Windows10 of linuxes.
The best thing about the GPL world is you can simple change to another distro and everything works.
So if a companies starts doing shit you can:
a) Find a distro that stays to the old true version (mint forked from Ubuntu after they started doing shit)
b) remove this shit temperamentally form the OS (requires some skill)

When I bought a used thinkpad, that had Windows 7, and my having switched out the HDDs for an ssd for a few days caused the OS on the original hdd to corrupt

I installed Ubuntu and never went back. It literally works, and all the errors that happens on other Linux distros don't occur on Ubuntu. The bad about Ubuntu? I realize that the reason everything on it works perfectly is because canonical basically said a big fuck you to everyone else, making sure that their OS has the best everything. They are like the Microsoft of the Linux world in a way. I don't hate them or anything because you can still install Ubuntu for free, I'm just saying that I realize what is up

>>58066840
>Has money
> drinks Starbucks.
Too bad you can't buy taste.

>>58066840
Enjoy your shitty OS, shitty overpriced, oversized beverages served in plastic cups (scalding hot beverage in a plastic container? enjoy your xenoestrogens) with low grade coffee beans.

>>58077143
>>58077105
I think that was bait

>>58077071
You should honestly try Solus. I went from funtoo to gentoo to solus (after the xorg-1.19.0 fuck up, where the devs greenlighted xorg-server without the modules and broke a shit ton of systems) and despite having systemd, it's THE best binary distro bar none, both performance and stability wise. Unsurprisingly so, since the lead dev works for Intel's ClearLinux division and uses the same patches.
Gentoo is still king despite that major fuckup because I love portage and openrc is pretty nice although I still think they could easily make what systemd should have been (a fast, parallelized, simplified init system).

>>58069358
>playing games on PC

>>58069358
tell me a recent game I need Windows for that's worth playing

>>58073961
>cinnamon
-2

>>58077225
Titanfall 2 is pretty fun. I also play Rocket League a ton and played Dark Souls 3 recently.

>>58077185
Your post seems genuine, but isn't solus being forced here because the dev browses this place?

What does solus have over Ubuntu, besides from less bloat (I imagine it won't have amazon or an integrated internet search bullshit)?

Windows 7>Windows 8.1>Windows 10

>>58077047
>Try Mint.
Didn't mint have some major buttfuck retarded security breach a few months ago?
Like total pants on head retard kind of deal in overlooking vulnerabilities?

>>58077262
>multiplayer games
trash

>>58077271
>but isn't solus being forced here because the dev browses this place?
Ikey doesn't browse here. Solus started as a meme and I fell for it because I was mad at the gentoo team for being careless and breaking my system. I'm glad that I fell for it. It has almost no 32-bit libraries (although they can easily be installed) and it uses most of Clear Linux optimisations. It will involve a bit of relearning, because it's a stateless Linux system (as per Clear Linux's documentation), but other than that, it's really good. The packages are compiled with -O3 and glibc has Clear Linux's patches, so you're essentially getting the same performance boost as a Gentoo user would get (minus the control of the USE flags), or those that compile their own software.

https://dev.solus-project.com/T503

So far, the only fuck up was a Mesa release that didn't work on GCN 1.0 GPUs like my 280x. Driver would crash before starting X. The fix was commandline only, and only required you to use the package manager to roll back the upgrade.

>>58077281
Anything>windows10
MS-DOS>Windows10

MS-DOS
>Dose not spay on you
>Dose not interrupts your work with shutdowns do to (((updates)))

Tully there is no debate.

>>58077285
I'm recommending mint simply because it has the best DE and compatibility.

>major buttfuck retarded security breach
These people are coming from windows.
Windows has these every day.
Its literally nothing different in the security department for them.

>>58077401
> interrupts your work with shutdowns do to updates
This is a feature, anon.

>>58077426
>Random system crashes
>Its a feature not a bug.

Truly a feature, and the forced updates are the same.
I'm not retarded and I can update on my own.
Also remember the retarded MS update that was a bug and fucked your system up?
Oh and it was UN-deletable.

Tully auto updates are a feature.

Windows 2000

>>58077285
don't listen to the other guy anon, what you know is true

they didn't just have a security breach - they had something that was just as you described, to the point where it was inexcusable

this wasn't a case where they fucked up something like gentoo and xorg, or manjaro guys who are too retarded to update their ssl, but this is your information that they were playing with

>>58077289
DS3 isn't only multiplayer. It has plenty to offer playing alone.

>>58077466
>Oh and it was UN-deletable.
>now everything ok
Lie.

>>58062815
Around 7, I started using Windows. I actually didn't have any problems with the Vista beta. I didn't have problems particularly with 7 either, but around that time I started using Slackware exclusively. Eventually I got over being paranoid about the government and installed 8 for the games and Debian for everything else. I haven't felt like doing 10 because of outright surveillance, but I would install it if I got a dedicated gaming PC.

sister just bought a new notebook running win10 and gave it to me to set it up, how do I unfuck this thing ?

>inb4 install gentoo

>>58062815
Win2k was the last Windows i bought, i been dabbling with Linux back when Win98 was suppored in 1999 and by the time WinXP was being talked about on the tech websites and there were stories about product activation preventing piracy was when i started getting serous about using Linux and abandoning Windows, and that is what i did, i have not bought a copy of windows since Win2k (unless you count the purchase of a new laptop a few years ago that had Win7 on it, but it got wiped off and had Linux put on it, but it now has win7 back on it but it never gets to see the internet because i dont trust windows and i dont trust microsoft, so it just runs one windows app and i use Linux for everything else

>>58078818
>there were stories about product activation preventing piracy
Oh dear :(

>>58078730
Remove the hard drive and test tome live CDs see what you like before installing better get a separate HDD for your linux.

You might want to run windows software in the future.

Have fun.

>>58078842
loonix isn't an option sadly.

I was thinking more about scripts to remove most of the bloat and telemetry.

>>58078864
Why not Win7?

And why not Loonix?

>>58078980
she uses several "windows only" programs

>>58075140
Who tells these devs what to do?

>>58078831
i dont make copies of windows and sell them on the street out of the trunk of my car, but before that product activation came along i would install windows 98 or win2k on every PC or Laptop i bought at pawn shops or yard sales, or when a family member or friend had a PC that needed restoring, i would not do it for money i would do it because i loved the technology and i loved a good smoothing running computer i would do a clean install and update it and get all the hardware drivers installed.

but those greedy corporate picfuckers that run microsoft thinks i should have to pay a premium just because i wanted to make the PCs around be run good, too bad, it was their loss because instead of using and advocating microsoft windows i switched to Linux and i still advocate and promote the use of Linux because it is free FOSS GNU/GPL software< Stallman and Torvalds basically gave the computer back to the people instead of it being held for a ransom by greedy corporate pigfuckers

where do I actually downlaod the fucking iso ?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

>>58064081
>They skipped 9
No, dumbass, Seven ate Nine.

>>58062815
>windows 95
>shit
nigga u smoking dat good good?

>>58082679
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO/

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>>58062815
What makes an OS "good"? Whenever I use an OS, nothing feels particularly different. My experience is usually the same with any other, minus my windows 10 which has had retarded crashes for almost no reason. What's the specifics that makes an OS good?

>>58083882
Really ? Guess I'm blind..

Thanks anon !

>>58084481
fast kernel + good drivers + fast and reliable filesystem + effecient and robust utilities + a GUI that gets out of your way (and a good, easy workflow)