15-20 years ago I’d regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or “could not install, retried” updates. They’ve improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they’ve “improved” is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7’s user interface today.
Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won’t check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows ecosystem prison system.
In my experience, updates that break boot are up 250% since 7, and their “roll back” for “Feature” and “quality” upgrades fails 85% of the time, “Sorry we weren’t able to uninstall…”
Not to mention that they’ve disabled the default registry backup since 10. Go ahead- check the “regback” folder. There’s nothing in it. Don’t even get me started on auto-bitlockering.
Odd how we have such different experiences the last 10 years.
Yep. If you don’t mind a company subscription model (the software doesn’t get removed after the period, just can’t download updates) Stardock for Windows is awesome. Fences were invaluable for me and they also sell skin customisation that achieves this same idea.
I have a Win XP VM on my server for the nostalgia, plus if I want to sync my iPod Touches to iTunes the best compatible way was a VM running XP and the appropriate iTunes version.
15-20 years ago I’d regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or “could not install, retried” updates. They’ve improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they’ve “improved” is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7’s user interface today.
Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won’t check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows
ecosystemprison system.A huge chunk of my work used to be fixing things after a client’s Windows OS went tits-up after an update for seemingly no reason.
These days, those cases are incredibly rare and when they happen there’s usually an underlying hardware condition.
Windows has been able to roll back botched updates for about 10 years now. I’d say that qualifies as an improvement.
In my experience, updates that break boot are up 250% since 7, and their “roll back” for “Feature” and “quality” upgrades fails 85% of the time, “Sorry we weren’t able to uninstall…”
Not to mention that they’ve disabled the default registry backup since 10. Go ahead- check the “regback” folder. There’s nothing in it. Don’t even get me started on auto-bitlockering.
Odd how we have such different experiences the last 10 years.
Enterprises/corporations exist. Many of us have to use Windows for work, and no, I can’t just go to the CEO and demand we move to Linux 💁🏻
Does your enterprise have requirements about your personal devices? I’d argue they don’t.
Which is why I use Linux on my devices, and WSL on my work device.
Use Startallback and get your 7 experience back.
Is it just an OS editor basically?
Yep. If you don’t mind a company subscription model (the software doesn’t get removed after the period, just can’t download updates) Stardock for Windows is awesome. Fences were invaluable for me and they also sell skin customisation that achieves this same idea.
wish I knew that back then. had a huge interest in customization and stuff. Oh well, too late now…
I have a Win XP VM on my server for the nostalgia, plus if I want to sync my iPod Touches to iTunes the best compatible way was a VM running XP and the appropriate iTunes version.
Hopefully it’s not allowed through your firewall ><
Ha yeah. It can’t even use the internet so I jump through a few hoops to get the software on the ‘drive’