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    [–] ddplf@szmer.info 7 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Linux is so bad it's worse than everything else even when others are enshittifying aggressively? Got it!

    [–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    Over the years I've tried switching to Linux and it definitely was less user friendly. I think Mint has made huge strides and hopefully will be able to take over.

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    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

    Easy to have a constant upward trend when you start off in your parents basement…

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    I liked Vista (I was never a RAM peasant & I liked the glass theme) and hated XP.

    I was also always sad how Me was brutally sodomised by shitty third party drivers (who just renamed 98 drives).

    I considered W8 and 11 just as mediocre moneygrabs or maybe a marketing stunt.

    [–] Gladaed 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Windows and even Mac are clearly superior. As shown in the graph eventhough Linux is getting better it never even got close.

    [–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    I think the way you worded it doesn't make it obvious that you're criticizing the graph specifically and not the os, hence your downvotes. But yes, that graph is absolute mess.

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    [–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

    comparing macos to gravity's rainbow just smells right

    [–] msmc101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

    y'all it's supposed to be a timeline, a hand drawn one too, that's why 8 is where it is. you guys are taking this way too seriously

    [–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    What's so bad about win 11 as an OS? For me it's the most stable windows. Of course the MS crap they want you to include is bs, but that's not really the OS

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    [–] smeg@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

    Wasn't 98 the precursor to ME? I thought 2000 was the server version (or something like that)?

    [–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 5 points 22 hours ago

    Yep. In the beginning there were two threads of Windows garbage: Win NT (for companies, with NT kernel) and (MSDOS-based) Win 9x for peasants. Win 2000 was the "last" Win NT and Win Me was the last Win 9x.

    That's not 100% true as Me used something called "Real mode DOS" which limited the OS interactions with DOS and Windows XP was an evolution of the NT kernel, and all subsequent windowses come from that kernel (Vista, 7, 8, etc.. and the Server variants).

    Win Me was the "Mistake Edition" because it was half-baked, most of Microsoft was focusing by then on the next iteration of NT and they even didn't ship to developers the Me version but rather Windows 2000.

    And probably Windows Me was on the knowing about 9/11:

    "System Restore suffered from a bug in the date-stamping functionality that could cause System Restore to incorrectly date-stamp snapshots that were taken after September 8, 2001. This could prevent System Restore from locating these snapshots and cause the system restore process to fail. Microsoft released an update to fix this problem."

    [–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago

    2000 was the first Windows with an NT kernel that was really usable on the desktop. Some may argue NT 4 but in 2000 almost everything worked as expected. XP was clearly better of course.

    But you're right - ME was actually a successor to 98 and XP was the joint successor to 2000 and ME.

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