i seriously want to sue microsoft for making windows 10/11 purposely slow on a modest hardware just so you buy a more powerful (and hence costlier) hardware. Not to say, Microsoft benefits from OEMs that sell Windows pre-installed.
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@GNUxeava
MS isn't trying to make Windows slow on purpose. Windows is slow because it's badly designed and bloated as a consequence of decades of backwards compatibility.
And every time they try to overhaul the OS, you have billions of users complaining of "why did you change this! why is my 15 year old software not working anymore! Microsoft REEEEE!!!!".
Microsoft is in a catch-22. The users expect a modern OS, with fancy UI and support for touchscreen, HDR, etc, while at the same time they expect it to still work like Windows XP.
So because you can't get rid of the old stuff, because some of the users will just refuse to use the new Control Panel for instance, you need to keep all of it and add to the bloat. I hear that things have gotten so bad, that current builds of Windows 11 literally have 2 versions of Explorer, one themed for Win11, one themed for Win10.
Windows 10 removed a good bit of back compat and has been each update
Win 10 when it first released is entirely different from what it is now, hell Microsoft advertised win10 as being perfect for even core2 era machines (and it was pretty alright for a time) it's only as they've done their "redesigns" in the past couple years that it's gotten shittier
They removed most 32bit back compat stuff in I think the spring update from last year, win16 support was yeeted back in late windows 8, so they havent been this exclusive back compat only company, especially when they KEEP MAKING SETTINGS A CUNT TO CHANGE, JUST FUCKING LET ME USE CONTROL PANEL FFS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I do get what you mean about where people go to complain about issues, that's largely just a fundamental difference in framing, likely going back to win98
Doesn't help that over the years they've been making it more of a pain to do basic sysadmin and troubleshooting
@Lumeinshin @GNUxeava
>They removed most 32bit back compat stuff...
I haven't used Windows 10 in recent years in a large enough amount to notice any of this. Usually I end up doing some installs for a cousin, and I haven't encountered any problems with 32bit software. Although, the only legacy software I deal with for him is Winamp (because I can't be bothered to teach him some other music app, and he can't be bothered to learn anyway).
I know about the 16bit removal from Windows 8, and even back then I remember hearing something about some work-arounds to keep stuff working. As always, Windows users were still adamant about keeping that stuff working.
Maybe they did start removing more back compatibility stuff from Win10, but so far I haven't managed to hear or witness any effects. I've got a secondary Win10 laptop, that I don't use much, but I've played a few games on it from around 1999-2001 just fine (in the last year). So whatever 32bit stuff they might have removed, clearly it wasn't that much.
