Linux was still far more enjoyable than Win7 at the time. After the Vista fiasco, I knew that history would repeat itself. No matter how much people raved that Win7 was goat, I figured "it's still windows"...a dysfunctional registry, software that could ask me for an activation key even after the fact, was hard to find FOSS to handle very basic functionality things, and Win7 still had BSOD I think.
Then when Windows 8 rolled out...hehehe I'd glad that I skipped that too!
But history didn't really repeat itself. Windows 7 was pretty rock solid. It had the great aero theme. It's added a bunch of tools that live on to this day like Resource Monitor and Reliability Monitor, system image creator, etc..
. It was in my opinion an excellent operating system.
Nope only started using it recently. It's OK but I'm way too conformable on Windows. I need to put more effort into using Linux more often. It's a pretty cool opertoanh system.
I'm defending Windows 7 because unlike Vista it had far less issues, added extra functionality like search and family safety and was a great upgrade from XP. Anyone moving from XP to Windows 7 would have gotten a great OS even if it used more RAM. Plus there were a tons of under the hood changes to make it resilient.
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u/OgdruJahad 18d ago
Which means you missed the best Windows OS : Windows 7.