• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Did 7 have some hidden clause or something that’s not apparent to a user without forensic tools? I remember that revision being pretty swell. (Especially the enterprise branches)

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The Home editions included hardware restrictions (a maximum of either 8 or 16 GB RAM depending on which of the two versions you got, and you couldn’t change language in any of the commercially available versions. While I can’t remember anything wrong with it, I was also like 10 when I used it and I highly suspect everyone’s memories of it are being biased by just how absolute dogshit 8 was on release.

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          2 months ago

          Right, that edition is listed after enterprise on Wikipedia so my eyes just completely bounced over the fact it could be upgraded to from Pro.

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        2 months ago

        Everyother version of windows has been good, the others are shit…

        Gotta admit the pattern has held true

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          2 months ago

          Except that implies Windows 12 or whatever is going to be good, which I currently struggle to imagine is possible without major structural changes to Microsoft’s entire corporate structure.

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            2 months ago

            Except compare windows 8 to windows 10 totally different and they changed their entire direction. It’s possible.

            I feel like they go “we need something new and fast. Forget quality or what people want just make it new and different.” and then a few years later “that was a mistake, make it work well and listen to the customers”… And repeat

            Granted I’m running Debian but…

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      2 months ago

      Rose-tinted glasses. Anyone going back to Windows XP would likely be shocked at how broken and unintuitive it could be at times.

      7 was best. Everything after that has been unusable garbage.