Switching from Windows to Linux about 25 years or so ago was when I finally realized that computers actually behave in deterministic ways so no, Windows was never really a joy to use.
Yeah like XP was way better than windows now, and 7 was mostly fine in retrospect, but even as a gamer who always used windows, but had experimented with linux, I always knew windows was shit even back in the XP days. I remember doing so much debloating and random troubleshooting.
And most of the troubleshooting was just stuff like “reboot, reinstall, remove and re-add printer,…” which really does nothing to the actual issue and just fights symptoms.
Switching from Windows to Linux about 25 years or so ago was when I finally realized that computers actually behave in deterministic ways so no, Windows was never really a joy to use.
Yeah like XP was way better than windows now, and 7 was mostly fine in retrospect, but even as a gamer who always used windows, but had experimented with linux, I always knew windows was shit even back in the XP days. I remember doing so much debloating and random troubleshooting.
And most of the troubleshooting was just stuff like “reboot, reinstall, remove and re-add printer,…” which really does nothing to the actual issue and just fights symptoms.