Where's RedstarOS?

I would agree that 10 was very good, but i could say similar things about windows 11 which in many ways performs better then 10.

And yet its shortly after upgrading to 11 that i switched to linux to never look back.

I think part of the logic in this meme is that it doesn’t matter how good the basic functions of the operating system are but what does is the design philosophy of the company. Loyalty in other systems decreased while Loyalty in windows gained.

Microsoft force feeding edge, onedrive, burrying the local account option till after the install with Microsoft account.

Randomly finding an update put a second weather widget on my taskbar that shows a different weather then the one in start. Taskbar icons that cant be closed, only hidden.

These things don't affect the OS functionality in a big deal but its like i was in an abusive relationship that i finally got out of. No matter how much sweet talking and promises to do better i am not going back.

I'd even argue that 10 as it started out was the best since xp

How can you so batantly skip over Win 7? I've heard some argue 10 was better (it wasn't) but that 7 >> XP was pretty undisputed.

All three are shit compared to Linux, of course (Arch btw).

8 wasn't nearly as bad as people think, and there were big improvements to the kernel that make it a definite improvement over 7.

The problem for most people was the Start screen, which if you could get past, left you with what was a really good OS.

Less ads and telemetry than 10, too.

8 was INCREDIBLY fast

It also used little resources and it was the last time Microsoft pulled a massive dev effort to modernize almost everything in Windows, significantly evolving it's display and rendering pipeline and making a whole different design language

8 touch interface was also by far the best touch interface I've used

Windows 10 should be a dead cat bounce on this chart. Better than 8, worse than 7, better than 11 by a lot.

Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen

So many people say that but I actually liked the menu. It opened very fast and you could far more quickly find and hit the right tile than that stupid nested programs tree that was the norm in the start menus of earlier Windows versions.

I'd say considering that telemetry started to creep in primarily with Win 10, 8 was indeed better (meaning less bad).

Dude, I am all for people trying and stuff.

I can tell that you are just starting out in the graph game, and that is cool and all. But compare to OP yours looks terrible. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to save you from the embarrassment.

Take another look at OPs graph and pay attendtion to the different thickness in the lines and the unpredictable curves.

Wait, did you write an actual function for that graph?

This meme says:

• windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
• linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
• and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)

Yea, I'd say Win10/11 is on the same good/shit cycle as always

Though whether Win12 breaks it and continues the shitty trend is highly likely at this point

Try to install windows 10 on hdd and see for yourself, Linux works fine no matter which device it's loaded from, windows before 10 did too

It was never stable for me. I remember I had a laptop that would always refuse to shut down because "shutdown.exe" was running

Why? Just cos.

the graphs are separate, not superimposed. I agree it's confusing