Yeah if they gave me a high DPI Windows 11 classic theme without telemetry and some actual quality control I’d be all over it.

My mother also agrees with me on this. She’s been progressively hating Windows more every release too.

I like that driver management no longer sucks, I like search-to-launch, and I like the way you can send windows to the left or right half of the screen (decent tiling WMs or Spectacle on macOS are much better, but hey, Windows' thing is better than nothing).

... that's a fairly complete list of improvements to Windows since, I dunno, Win2k, that I care about. Most other changes have been neutral, or made it worse.

[EDIT] oh, and two of those three probably would have been at least as good as high-quality add-ons (like the Spectacle example is, on macOS), so as far as really vital stuff goes, making drivers suck a lot less is just about it.

If you think driver management doesn’t suck then try owning an HP wireless printer. Total shit show.

Looks like the “every odd release is terrible” tradition is still strong in Microsoft.

Not been on Win for a long time, but isn't Win 7 generally regarded as the best/most stable?

I think they mean 'odd' as in 'every second one' rather than odd version number.

E.g: 11 - bad, 10 - good, 8 - bad, 7 - good, Vista - bad, XP - good, etc, etc.

Windows ME - wretched...kernel faults every 1 of 3 boots on a fresh install!

I co-manage about 150 Windows machines at my org, I'm in no hurry to try Windows 11 ATM.

Not native speaker, this is indeed what I meant :)

Odd like “every other release”, not “is the version number not divisible by 2”

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