• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yep, I’ve said this before.

    Windows 7 was the last great OS by microsoft.

    It was light enough to not be a bother on even used hardware.

    It was exceedingly stable and didnt need regular reformat and reinstalls like all previous windows OS’s.

    Didnt need to be constantly rebooted every time you exited a big task like previous Windows.

    and you were able to do pretty much anything on it easily and without much fuss.

    and, outside of like driver installs, the OS pretty much stayed out of your way.

    It was brilliant. It was the best.

    It was the peak of the curve. 3.11/95/98/ME/NT/XP all built up to 7, and 8/10/11 are all falling further and further away from 7.

    The only reason to get rid of windows 7 is that there was no further way to monetize it since it had pretty good market saturation. If it wasnt for that Win7 would probably be the default OS for another 10+ years.