> An upgrade to windows 11 is a big downgrade.
I've heard a similar refrain about every windows release since XP.
Not saying it was or is wrong.
I've heard a similar refrain about every windows release since XP.
Not saying it was or is wrong.
If you had ME, all bets were off.
Edit: On the right machine, ME was fine though. Much like Vista after SP2 and really late in it's lifetime.
That's exactly how I started my career as an engineer. As a 10-year-old boy, I had to learn how to fix it if I want to play games.
And it is the first time I know that what "Any Key" is.
You can even empirically show that by how abysmally bad their sales were. According to [1], Vista peaked at 25% market share (of Windows installations), when XP still had >70% and Windows 7 was just releasing. Windows 8 (including 8.1) similarly peaked at around 25% right before the release of Windows 10, at a time where Windows 7 held 65% market share, with the rest going to XP.
Statista tells a similar story [2] [3]
1: https://windowsreport.com/windows-market-share-history/
2: https://www.statista.com/chart/4225/windows-market-share-by-...
3: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows...
Vista was garbage but necessary.
Windows 7 was actively good.
Windows 8 was a dumpster fire.
Windows 10 would be good if it wasn't riddled with all the dark patterns which make it merely adequate.
Windows 11 is going to make the Windows 8 dumpster fire look good by comparison.