moe90Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements
DraedronEvery 2nd microsoft OS is bad. Its normal for them.
XP good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad.
DefederateLemmyMlNo. They’re all bad, some are just worse than others.
DacoTacoEverything after w7, id agree. Windows 7 was actually legit. It ran fine on my amd athlon with 512MB ram. Ran dolphin back in the day too.
Now after that it was all shite
No 7 sucked too. It just came off the back of Vista which was a real hot mess, so 7 appeared better.
The thing is, Microsoft has always had an adverserial (or abusive) relationship with its customers, forcing things on them that most of them don’t want. Like “activation” in XP, UAC in Vista, forced automatic updates in 7, that awful tile UI in 8.x, telemetry you can’t disable in 10, forced Microsoft accounts in 11 … the list is endless. And then when they back down on one thing, people are like: hurray, Windows is actually good now! … forgetting all the other things they have been forced to swallow in the past.
Given how many older windows PCs ended up in botnets, forced automatic updates was probably a good thing.
W7 was fine. I cut the cord and went Linux before W10. It sucked for a year, and now I look at the trash they sell and everyone pays actual money for… And I laugh XD.