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> I didn't find anything (yet) that I consider an actual improvement.

Serious question: has there (ever?) been any, since say, Windows 2000?

Some progress has been made with regards to stability, but other than that? Usability hasn't improved and i'd consider Windows 10 and especially 11 extremely user hostile and full of spying.

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> Serious question: has there (ever?) been any, since say, Windows 2000?

Start menu search in Vista (of course then we had to wait for 7 for a semi-decent Windows)

Past that... WSL? But it sort of says something that the biggest improvement to Windows is adding Linux.

Yes and yes on search.

Although i actually prefer Spotlight (both on macOS and iOS) - it just works that good (imho, haven't seen any better desktop search).

Have you tried "everything" by void tools on Windows, or "Find Any File (FAF)" on Mac?

Any 3rd party search app on Windows 11 works better than Windows11 search. What a time to be alive :(

Aside from stability and security improvements, most of which happened years ago, not really. In terms of usability, Win 7 remains the best version of Windows in my opinion. It's all been downhill from there.

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