The great thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from.

It's an interesting article, certainly the Windows 7 figure was surprising to me.

(I'm posting from Windows 10 but I have a Win 7 drive in case of emergency / GOG incompatibility)

Would having a reliable periscope be considered "substandard"? *rimshot*

Heh, doesn't surprise me in the slightest, seeing that gamers need DX12. I probably would install it too, on a separate, segregated and neglected partition on the HDD, if I had the hardware.

Still Microsoft's shittiest OS by a long shot. Yes, even worse than ME imo.

...i actually like ME

Because?

I like YOU too

because i can chuck it on whatever old pc i have lyinga round and it wont complain about drivers it wil provide its own
and its just about modern enough to be able to handle the likes of usb sticks and external dvd players

You are talking about ME I suppose. I'm asking about why he thinks 10 is the worse.

oh wel now you know why i like ME ;p

i have a sneaking suspicion why he considers 10 to be the worst ( spyware dubious upgrade practices black screen crashes incompatibilities )

Because this.

I deliberately and facetiously asked the question because of those very own reasons. The political/ideological is the only thing people seem to bring up and ignore and the "under the hood" improvements.
Black Screen, crashes and incompatibilities are just Windows things at this point. :p


Also, Windows 2000>ME all the way baby.

Not surprising, outside the internet Windows 10 is probably going to do fine, but the pissed off crowd will make their voice heard on the internet so it looks worse than it is.

Similar things happened all the way back when Windows 95 came out. People vowed and swore up and down they'd never get Windows 95, instead choosing to stay on DOS. It's the MS hate cycle.

Though with Vista, and early on with Windows 10, I'd say it was somewhat justified. I was lucky enough to not have programs vanish, black screens, blue screens, and other non-sense when I installed 10. I told the OS to not use an MS account, set up a simple local account, which in one swift move shuts off a lot of data collecting going on, then I deep searched for anything else it might be doing to mine data. It took like, 15-20 minutes and I was set.

Early on I thought my GPU drivers were not working right because of Windows 10, but that turned out to just be AMD's fault. Ah, the wonders of PC gaming :)

Yep, ever since Windows 95. Anybody remember how often Windows 98 would blue screen you? I remember back when I would mod and tinker with Half-Life all day and that fucking OS would blue screen constantly at the slightest offense. I could sneeze wrong and it would BOD me. Unstable POS :p

I like that windows 2000 still goes up to DX9.c and I don't have problems with more than 512 MB of memory like in ME.

I don't think you need to learn much with 10, maybe get used to the ribbon interface on the explorer (provided that you aren't familiar with it already) and get used to the config options being split between the classic control panel and the modern Config (which is one of my major gripes with it, there's no bloody point in being split that way). The incompatibilities can be hit or miss, I have a good record with it, very few games required me some downloads or tinkering with files. As with programs, not a single problem to this day. Oh and this is a direct install, not upgrade, don't know if that makes much of a difference.

Mind you, I still don't like using Windows, if I could I would never use it, but credit where is due. As soon as I tried to go back to Seven it felt like a drag.