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I miss Windows XP / 7, everything went downhill after.

Windows 7 was the last version that I was willing to use (with 7 and 2000 being my favorites). Any time I've had to interact with a Windows 8 or later machine, I've hated it. I only use Windows under duress anymore.

Man I wish Microsoft (Apple too!) would just say screw it to new features and spend time really polishing their operating systems. I'm sitting on Windows 10 as long as I can.

Comments like these make me wonder if you are looking back with rose colored glasses. You didn't mention Vista, which is universally regarded as a failure and in the same timeframe as you described. While some of Microsoft's more regrettable decisions have yet to be made by 7, but there are still plenty of bad ones to choose from. Games for Windows Live, Fisher Price UI, massive software vulnerability, Office "ribbon", Admin Popup, Internet Explorer, Silverlight...

Microsoft, especially after Windows launched, has always been the poster child for greedy, monopolistic, anti-consumer business practices.

You're missing the point: to the extent there were things you didn't like about XP and 7, you could fix them. Your relationship with your OS vendor was that of a paying user, not a hostage.

I agree I never saw the point of using XP or 7.

Some of us have bills to pay.

I don’t miss windows at all, been all Linux since 1995.

That's not exactly a cakewalk either. But you do get control.

No wonder you don’t miss it if you missed its best years.

Meh. Windows has never offered anything to make my computing experience better - no incentive to migrate.

Different strokes for different folks.

There's been different things through the years, games was a big one, but there's still the lack of any good remote desktop solution that's keeping me on Windows. I also haven't found a good replacement for Acronis TrueImage, ie incremental full-disk backups that run in the background, which has allowed me to be back in action in under 30 minutes when I've had drives fail.

You can still run Windows 7 on some modern hardware.

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