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This was still largely true with Windows 7. Starting with Windows 8 the UI story really went to hell.


Okay, that's good to know. I was a Mac user from 2007 to 2018, so I missed the entirety of the Windows 7/8 generation— going directly from XP to 10.


10 was a bit of an improvement over 8, so at least you skipped the worst with 8. I haven’t had the heart to install 11 yet though.


Like most filthy casuals, I don't think I'm a particularly "deep" user of the OS. It's basically background chrome for web browsers and terminal windows into WSL and SSH sessions.

To the extent that the OS does anything at all, I'm usually just mildly annoyed, like it signing be out of my work VPN or forgetting how my monitors are arranged. Or eating the battery when it should be sleeping (though I understand there's been some historical finger-pointing between Dell and Microsoft about whose actual fault those issues are).




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