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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I disagree.

XP felt like it was mine.
7 felt like it was mine
8 felt like they were trying to force something on me.
10 felt like they were pushing bloatware like a cell phone. At least l could remove some of that?
11 feels like they decided it's their computer, I'm just renting time in it by watching ads. You could remove half the programs by default and I would not miss any of them. Do I need a version of minesweeper with micro transactions? No!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Windows 2000 was the last Windows that I felt I could just slap on any old hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Which is weird, since Win2k definitely had lower hardware compatibility than XP, Vista, 7, etc.

It wasn't consumer-focused and just didn't have the driver compatibility from vendors yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quite the contrary, it had exemplary compatibility, including Plug'n'Play and wide native USB support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

With the things you tried it did.

Believe me, I was part of a team testing compatibility.

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