Comment by asdajksah2123
2 years ago
I have been primarily a Mac user, but Windows 7 was pretty good.
Windows 8 was awful and I refused to use it. However, Windows 10 was really good relative to Windows 8 primarily because it continued some of the good underlying tech Windows 8 brought with it, but was an acknowledgement by MS that the UI/UX needed to be user focused. It wasn't completely there...for example, the Candy Crush ads were still there in the start menu, but the direction relative to 8 was good. However, Windows 11 (and moreso Edge) shows that MS never really had that realization and continues to see their software not as tools for the users to use to simplify and improve their lives but as "products" to be used exactly as MS wants us to use it.
My disillusionment with macOS also lies with this attitude.
For me, Linux is the only desktop OS to be used by choice anymore.
MS doesn't think their software is tools for their users to use; they think their users are tools for their software to use.
Windows 7 UI was great. And I'm someone who has used Win since 3.1 days.
I wish microsoft maintained a version of windows "professional " without all the 10,11 crap/adware and with win7 ui. Even if it costs more