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      8 had a real small install footprint if I recall. It worked on a lot of really shitty hardware that 10 didn’t. 8 is definitely not as popular as 10

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    I feel personally attacked 1000017287

    If your wondering i paid $1 for it at a swap meet, disks are still mint aswell :D

    The features aged like milk

    1000017288

    "Its the most secure windows version ever!! "

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    Windows 10 on the same level as ME and Vista?.. And worse than 8 with that fucking Metro UI?

    Ok. Ok…oh…kay.

    Look I like Linux and want to eventually abandon windows for it, but this is just mindless circle jerking here

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      This meme says:

      • windows 8 somehow is more beloved than Windows 10 (lmao)
      • linux is just one single OS, instead of an agglomerate of hundreds of distributions
      • and implies that every single one of them got better with time (lmao)
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        Redstar os is the best os everyone knows it’s the pinnacle of linux engineering

        Sent from my spy-software-free mobile device (verified by my government™)

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    y’all it’s supposed to be a timeline, a hand drawn one too, that’s why 8 is where it is. you guys are taking this way too seriously

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    Linux is fun! I installed mint ln, everything went well except my wifi wasn’t working, spent a while downloading drivers, installing them, turns out I just had the wifi pw wrong. How embarass 🫢

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      Yea, I’d say Win10/11 is on the same good/shit cycle as always

      Though whether Win12 breaks it and continues the shitty trend is highly likely at this point

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          7 > 10 > 8 > 11

          On this graph 10 should be where 8 is and 8 should be where 10 is, 11 is exactly where it should be

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          I’d call it a damped spring oscillation. Still goes up and down, but the extremes peter out with time.

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      Definitely, yes. Win8 was unusable on desktops but was pretty good on tablets, win10 sucks on both. But the main thing is that spyware/bloatware explosion happened in win10. Xbox services, onedrive, cortana, that weather thing with msn news, fucking candy crush preinstalls, etc, all came with win10.

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      Try to install windows 10 on hdd and see for yourself, Linux works fine no matter which device it’s loaded from, windows before 10 did too

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          I’ve ran through 3 win 10 HDD computers and they all had sorts of performance issues with HDD. I don’t think it was tested beyond bootup for HDD.

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          I guess it depends on what your standards are for ‘fine’, or maybe it’s a 10k rpm drive. Win 10 on a standard HDD is dog shit, I personally had to upgrade several offices from HDD to SSD when Windows 10 came out.

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            Got any recommendations for backing up / migrating systems to a new drive? I’d be willing to try it but I don’t forsee enough benefit to warrant reinstalling everything on that machine.

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              If you have a hard drive reader and spare thumb drive it’s not too hard. Just put clonezilla on the thumb drive, boot it, put the new drive in the reader, and clone your old drive onto the new one.

              Back in the day I usually just put a fresh install on the SSD and downloaded their personal files from the network copy. I found that upgrading from 7 to 10 had a uncomfortably high failure rate, so it was easier to just put a fresh install of 10 on and go from there.

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        Windows philosophy is that it comes pre-installed and should be used with recent hardware. You may think of that what you will (environment wise etc), but to me that’s a valid design choice to make, in principle.

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            No, but what are you going to do? Install WIn10 on a computer that’s too old and doesn’t meet the minimum specs?

            If you have a 2010 computer, it’s either old WIndows or Linux, modern WIndows is going to suck, if it even works. Ergo, i can’t think of a circumstance where you’d want/have to install Win10 on a hard drive instead of an SSD.

            Maybe shits and giggles, like trying to run Doom on random stuff? If someone has more imagination than me then i’m open

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              Modern linux mint with zram works flawlessly on lga775 4gb ram and Nvidia gt210 and hdd as main and only drive

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    The only thing I disagree with here is Win8 being apparently better than Win10.

    Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen, and while Win8.1 did help, Win10 was by far the better implementation of PC Metro IMO.

    Having said that, Win11 is exactly where it needs to be. It’s all of Win10’s worst traits cranked up to 11 with a heaping of it’s own bullshit and spyware on top

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      Windows 10 should be a dead cat bounce on this chart. Better than 8, worse than 7, better than 11 by a lot.

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      Win8 was really damn annoying to use without a touchscreen

      So many people say that but I actually liked the menu. It opened very fast and you could far more quickly find and hit the right tile than that stupid nested programs tree that was the norm in the start menus of earlier Windows versions.

      I’d say considering that telemetry started to creep in primarily with Win 10, 8 was indeed better (meaning less bad).

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        Personally, I felt like Win8 was an over correction in favor of touch screens vs Win7. Win8.1 was kind of the sweet spot for getting touch screen functionality into Windows while maintaining a consistent UI between tablets, laptops, and desktops. So much so that I would consider it to be separate point on the chart between 8 and 10.

        Win10 did improve the UI a bit over that, but was so much of a step backwards in basically every other regard that I do consider that the point at which Windows started trending consistently downwards. As in, Win10 should be lower then Win7 on that curve, with Win11 lower than that, and no real hope that any future updates or versions will ever improve anything.