I’ll chime in with my unpopular opinion: Windows 8.1
The best experience I had. It was so well optimized it ran faster than Linux Mint. Note however the difference between 8 and 8.1. 8 should have been marketed as a separate product, say “Windows Touch” or something along those lines.
Legit I miss Windows 7. It did what it was supposed to do, it got out of your way, and it was stable as fuck.
Windows 3.1 was the shit but the last decent windows was XP.
Nah it’s 7. Even 10 was terrified of it.
Because 7 8 9
I’ll chime in with my unpopular opinion: Windows 8.1
The best experience I had. It was so well optimized it ran faster than Linux Mint. Note however the difference between 8 and 8.1. 8 should have been marketed as a separate product, say “Windows Touch” or something along those lines.
98SE, XP, and 7. The three best.
The worst is ME. It always will be. I bought a laptop brand new with ME that kept crashing, replaced it with 98SE, ran great after that.
What did 7 do that XP did not?
Ahh yes; Windows Mistake Edition.
Followed up by Vista and 8.
I just re-installed win7 on a PC where the drive failed (used for reading and programming cars from about 2014)
The driver story is such a mess with this version of windows! That is definitely better with win11