![]() ![]() So my current favorite is Windows 10 which is on my current gaming PC. So it's far too limiting to use a PC with Windows 7 as an OS, though I do keep an older PC that I just use for backup storage that still runs Windows 7. It would probably still be my favorite, but for 2 glaring issues: 1)It's no longer supported or updated by Microsoft, and 2)There are some games that now require Windows 10 to run. Of those versions, Windows 7 gave me the least problems when gaming, and was far less intrusive that Win 10. Then moved on to Windows 3.1 around 1992, then on to Windows 95, 98, ME, skipped Windows 2000, then upgraded to Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, skipped 8.0/8.1, then finally Windows 10. Mainer: I started gaming with PC's back in the 1980s with MS-DOS (don't remember the version numbers), back when you often needed to create boot discs just to run games. No one will notice if its got rounded corners and a glass look. They saw Bethesda can keep doing it with Skyrim, why not just put a new layer of paint on. But same could be said about every version of windows since Vista so no real change. Windows 11 is just windows 10 with a face lift. I don't understand the need to make X version of Windows look like Y, I can remember themes that used to make windows look like Apple and I never understood them either, if you want to use another OS just go do it. I don't cling to versions after a new one is announced, I just accept the changes (for most part) and go with flow. It wasn't good enough for 8 so I just skipped it. Unlike others, I didn't find Vista that bad but much of that came from having a PC that came with Vista and was powerful enough to last 8 years. First was painful and second I just skipped. The ones that didn't work so well for me because of hardware limitations I had at the time, Windows ME & Windows 8/8.1 are the 2 that come to mind. I don't have favorite versions of windows, I instead have less favorite versions. From our forumĬolif: First windows I used was Windows 3.1 for workgroups. I would never argue that Win3.1 was the "best" Windows (because, I mean, obviously), but I do miss that feeling. I have faint but fond memories of that transition from DOS to Windows (although it was really just a GUI dumped on top of DOS) and the way it felt like such a big step into the future: I was still horsing around with AUTOEXECs and batch files, but this Windows business was new and exciting and very pretty, and just enough of a pain in the ass that it still felt like a certain degree of expertise was required to get anything done. But I can't say I really have any complaints about Windows 10 either.Īndy Chalk: Somebody has to speak up for Windows 3.1 and I guess it'll be me. Also, Vista was so bad, I do remember trying to keep XP on my machine for as long as I possibly could because of that. I can't say I've ever thought about which Windows version is my favourite, but XP is one that stands out simply because it just worked. I had a genuine battle with my current PC when it went through a phase of constantly re-installing Candy Crush Soda Saga during Windows updates: Bill Gates never did me like that. In terms of functionality I honestly don't mind too much but my preference probably would be XP purely because I hate how much stuff the contemporary ones try to install, and how much tweaking you have to do when you first start using them just to get rid of all the crap. Richard Stanton: I wouldn't say it's my 'favourite' Windows but I have that same nostalgia as Andy for Windows 95, purely because I associate it with my first tentative steps into the wide world of the internet and PC gaming: and yeah, that chunky grey aesthetic is the OS equivalent of hot chicken soup. Ah, simpler times of chewing gum and kicking ass. Gaming was still MS-DOS-based, but it was a time of Duke Nukem 3D and grabbing cheeky games on our lunch break when the boss wasn't around. I was working tech support in a data conversion company at the time and this version of Windows was vital to getting on the internet and for sending annoying messages around the company. It could well turn out to be my favourite Windows, although that feels like cheating as it isn't really available yet or in fact, you know, finished.įor my fave Windows OS, I'm going to wind the clock back to 1996 when all the cool kids could be found using Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Alan Dexter: I've installed the Insider Preview of Windows 11 on my main machine and so far I've been mightily impressed by it. ![]()
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