> every single Windows release
I don't see NT 4 on that list!
NT 4, 2000, and 7 were all fairly low-bullshit, i think.
You also haven't listed Me, which probably needs a whole comment to itself.
I'd say 7 was one of the best Windows, but even that had a lot of UI inconsistency and clutter. Still, better than most. Not as cohesive as my MATE desktop.
Re:Designing Aero Snap (2009)
by nyanpasu64 on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:49PM
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When I first got Windows 7, I was annoyed by it placing libraries and homegroups in Windows Explorer's sidebar. Though Windows 10 is worse, with 3D Objects, the OS shilling OneDrive, Edge, mandatory Microsoft accounts, etc.
You're nostalgic for a time that never existed. While I agree that Windows 7 was more coherent than Windows Vista and Windows XP, every single Windows release has had its associated "bullshit" (as you put it):
* Windows 98: Advertising on the desktop (Active Channels)
* Windows XP: "Fischer-Price" default UI skin and chunky, toy-like iconography.
* Windows Vista: The whole OS release was maligned - and this site collected it all: https://web.archive.org/web/20110515033457/http://www.aerota...
* Windows 7: (Okay, I'll admit I can't immediately think of any major power-user criticism of Windows 7)
* Windows 8: Start Screen, terrible store apps, the DWM cannot be disabled, etc.
* Windows 10: Criticism of telemetry and data-collection, and how there's still some leftovers from Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 (I forget) lying around: