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French protestors grieved Windows 10 with a mock funeral outside Microsoft HQ, complete with a coffin
(www.windowscentral.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
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Let's not pretend Windows 10 was any good either.
This right here. People tend to forget how controversial 10 was when introduced, and romanticise it after the fact. Case in point: Win 10's antifeatures alone - built-in keylogger, mandatory telemetry, "upgrade" nag screens with tons of dark patterns - all that convinced me to finally make the switch to Linux before Win 7 EOL'd in 2020.
Indeed, but unlike 11 it was still more OS than a bloated slop generator.
Windows XP was really the last decent version.
7 was also good, the oldest windows with a UI that still feels usable today.
I still run a PC on 7. Its fun to see that everything still works.
Installed it this week on an old PC. It really is unusable at this point.
So only marginally worse than Windows 11, then, and with such impressively low system requirements!
Also less spying. So maybe about on par with 11?