(March 12, 2017 at 7:41 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I find that Windows is fine in the most part {don't mention Vista) if it has good strong hardware behind it.
My win10 beast boots up quicker than my my Linux word clock using the nice but not very powerful rasp pi.
Funny how some versions of Windows are despised...
After Win 98SE, came Win ME... Win ME got a very bad rap... but, on my computer, where 98SE was giving me random explorer.exe shutdowns, Millennium worked like a charm...
Then, later, I had a computer with XP. A year or two after it came out, I decided to give Vista a try... It worked. Couldn't complain. Then came win7... seemed like just a minor cosmetic improvement over Vista... worked just as well.
I skipped win8 and 8.1, though... that ghastly Metro start menu seemed so strange... and limiting...