On Windows
The best version of Windows OS is Windows 7. The next could be Windows XP and windows 10. I hadn't used Windows 95/98 for long (I was very young then) so I guess they were good too. The worst are Windows 11 and Windows 8. This is my opinion.
Like any netizen, I grew up using Windows. My first memory of computer was seeing my uncle playing MMORPG games on Windows 98. Then I learned basic computer knowledge in primary school, and of course it was on Windows 98.
Then I grew up a bit, I had my own computer and started to use Windows XP. This is probably the most legendary operating system in history. And it was really good. I had used it for almost ten years. I also liked to change the theme to Windows 98 and it looked really retro.
I had been using Windows Vista for a while too. But like people said, Vista was elegant and beautiful, but also laggy as hell. There weren't many computers can run Vista smoothly. Then Windows Vista became Windows 7 soon. I believe it was the most famous and best Windows ever. There are still people using Windows 7 now (about 2%).
When the Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 released, I was in college at that time. Coincidentally, I majored in computer information management. One of my projects was developing Windows 8.1 applications. And I have obviously forgotten everything I've learned.
Windows 10 released after I graduated. I joined the Windows 10 Insider Program. I upgraded my computer to Windows 10 in 2015 and I was probably the first person around me who had a chance to use Windows 10 in the first few years. Windows 10 was pretty nice actually, it was clean, smooth, fast and stable at first. Microsoft even once said that the Windows 10 "is the last Windows version". It would be great if there weren't a Windows 11 coming. There is even a Windows 12 coming now. But things just don't go as we want. Windows 10 has become laggy and unstable.
Windows 11 looks not bad when it first released. Like always, I joined the Windows 11 Insider Program. But it was a nightmare since then. The Windows 11 HAS bugs, ads, features I don't need and several different design languages. They still haven't fixed until now and more to come. It's not elegant, clean, smooth or stable. People run into bugs all the time, just like a last few years of Windows 10.
I heard Microsoft laid off most of its update QA team since Windows 10, and replaced with the very Insider Program a few years later. I see, we the users are guinea pigs for Microsoft.
Now the Windows 11 are still full of bugs, features people don't need, ads, and several different design languages. It seems that it can never get any better. Each update, Microsoft fixes a few bugs and delivers more. I don't see any improvements would solve this. But there are other options.
I can choose Mac or Linux. I'll pass Mac without a blink because I don't like Apple today. I have experience on using Linux but that was another story. I heard Ubuntu is not as good as before anymore and CentOS is dead. Debian and Fedora are as niche as they always are. Some distros come up and some distros disappear. I even tried a OpenBSD on a VPS.
There are a lot of choices. But I am a bit locked by Microsoft. I use OneDrive as a sync drive for my work and life, I can get rid of it in a short time. The environment around me is based on Windows. The software I use for work, video games on Steam (but SteamOS seems run better AAA games than on Windows 11 now), and some other niche tools that only available on Windows. It takes time for me to change a whole operating system environment.
Day 30.