Windows has been on the user experience decline for some time now. Rather than looking for ways to improve the user experience, they are looking for creative ways to introduce Microsoft Teams. Windows 7, while aged (and possibly viewed through nostalgia), was a pretty amazing cohesive experience.
There is literally nothing I do now that Windows 10 does better than Windows 7 (other than the actual requirement for software support). Not only does 10 take longer to start-up, but the start menu was destroyed and the new Microsoft Store app design (UWP?) is hideous and unintuitive.
I tolerate Windows now because of software support. I have nowhere else to play my games and don't even think about VR on a non-windows platform.
MacOS is certainly a better example of cohesive design (with some caveats, like their Window management is from the 90s).
I would love to see a Linux desktop environment take the best things from MacOS and the best things from Windows. Gnome 40 is _really_ close and that makes me very happy
Got to agree about Windows 7, it was absolutely great.
GNOME 40 is pretty good, and I think KDE gets better every day, although they do have a lot of cruft still, inconsistencies even within their own app suite.
Windows has been on the user experience decline for some time now. Rather than looking for ways to improve the user experience, they are looking for creative ways to introduce Microsoft Teams. Windows 7, while aged (and possibly viewed through nostalgia), was a pretty amazing cohesive experience.
There is literally nothing I do now that Windows 10 does better than Windows 7 (other than the actual requirement for software support). Not only does 10 take longer to start-up, but the start menu was destroyed and the new Microsoft Store app design (UWP?) is hideous and unintuitive.
I tolerate Windows now because of software support. I have nowhere else to play my games and don't even think about VR on a non-windows platform.
MacOS is certainly a better example of cohesive design (with some caveats, like their Window management is from the 90s).
I would love to see a Linux desktop environment take the best things from MacOS and the best things from Windows. Gnome 40 is _really_ close and that makes me very happy