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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

….windows 10 came out in 2015. I wouldn’t say it just came out, 8 and a half years ago. Thats a pretty good run for a retail OS. There was only 5 between the release of 3.0 and 95.

My big gripe with 11 was that it seemed like MS was going to go away from major releases and go to something somewhat closer to a rolling release model. My big gripe with 10 was all the telemetry.

It’s actually pretty telling that from “insert installation media” to “working web browser”, just about any Linux distro is a faster, easier, and less demanding installation experience than 10 or 11.

[–] MashedPotatoJeff@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Haha, fair enough. I seem to have lost track of the years somewhere in there.