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Posted on 04/05/2021 1:35:41 PM PDT by upchuck
After over three decades of Microsoft Windows success, there have been some clear failures along the way. With that in mind, we’ve picked the six worst versions of Windows. All of these made us want to stick to older, better versions of Windows, or use alternatives like Macs or Linux instead.
The Ranking Criteria Most of us know a bad version of Windows when we see it. Maybe we’ve experienced personal pain in wrestling with its bugs, or lost time reinstalling it over and over again, or heard stories about how often it’s crashed.
In developing this list, we considered the following metrics: How much people hated each version (appearances on other worst-of lists), how poorly it sold, how slowly it was adopted, how bad its reviews were, the length of its lifespan on the market, and our own personal experiences with the software. For fun, we also googled “Windows [x] Sucks,” and tallied up the results.
Honestly, there’s no hard science to this, so you might not agree with our exact ranking, but we can confidently predict this: If you ran at least one of these versions of Windows, you wanted to upgrade.
Will that put Linux on my hard drive or will I have to boot from a USB (I know how to change the boot order)?
Ok then you are up on it. I just moved from 18.3 to the newest 20.x and so far like it. If you are creating the USB stick from windows then use the Rufus to make sure it is bootable both BIOS and UEFI. If you are creating it from Linux then use the USB stick formatter and the USB image writer.
I remember I turned you onto linux, So please feel free to ask away at any time.
Sounds like you want to make a plug in portable linux thumb drive? I have made many of those. Sent several to Fellow Freepers... They are cool because you can plug them into any PC that boots from the USB first. And you can borrow the hardware no matter what system the box has, including MAC. :)
PM me man... :)
Sorry about that, for very good reason it had the god awful topic Linux pop up... :)
Why folks insist on being masochists offering up to the sadists I have no clue...
No, I actually want to have a dual boot machine with Windows 10 and Linux on it. But Like I said, Linux is ISO boot and Windows is UEFI. I need Linux to be UEFI. I think.
#6: Windows 1.01 (1985)>>> The original windows version i used came bundle with Pagemaker. Pagemaker ported from apple and only on the windows platform. It would turn black in the middle of creating our newsletter.
Thanks to upchuck, Auntie Mame, and Army Air Corps for pings!
That’s a very good comment, and yes, I believe other folks have told me the same thing. Still, if I could ever get an older laptop and install Vista on it, I probably would just for nostalgia’s sake.
I’m reading this thread to hubby and he agrees Windows 7 was the best.
I am going to say I must have had the only stable edition of Windows ME in existence. It literally never caused me a problem, no blue screens, no driver issues, nothing. Worked great, fast, and never failed.
Clippy?! Oh stop the Monkeys!
Now I have to go back into Therapy....
OK, you are good... Just make sure that your BIOS is set to allow UEFI boot also. I just went through this with a brand new laptop install over Win 10. And because of the maker I had to go change another setting to allow the USB to boot aside from the BIOS.
But keep in mind your Linux ISO absolutely has to be bootable from the stick with “either option”, and this is indeed an option available. If not then it will be picky no matter what you have your BIOS set as.
The install will do the dual boot for you, the new 20.x install requires you to go into “other” that the 18.3 and the 19.x did not reguire. And then it will be self explanatory.
You need to get the newest version. It is UEFI and 64 bit only... So many want to go for “light” or “something I can play with because I am an IT tech”. No, just load the right one to begin with and you are good to go. It just works and you do not have to know a thing about tech. :)
Like over 200 tweaks available in in Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4 for Windows 10 From the Windows club.
Add to this Winaero features of the Winaero Tweaker
Then there is Right-Click Extender (add items to many right click menus) , and T-Clock Redux and Classic Shell, now called Open Shell (https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/archive/master.zip)
Composite (with my own Quick Launch menu) using T-Clock and Open Shell, by the grace of God.:
You are square on the apple cart.
Have fun, no way off the cart once yr on
I wont hitch a ride right now.
Good to see you are well brother! I hope the other brother is still having fun with Linux. Be nice to see you put yourself in the shoes of the average user my friend, it would be much fairer to the community. Because as you know you are not just an average basic user are you? Judging these things from your own perspective is a situation that 999 of a 1000 will never even understand. Let alone have all that time to fight it. :)
Thank you for giving Linux a little credit once in awhile throughout the forums here. I do see that and respect it for what it is, and do make note of it. But because of your own particular situation, and skill level it is like a champion chess player trying to tell someone why they should not play checkers. The games are not, and were not designed to have interchangeable rules of play. :)
And we have a whole lot of folks here who just want to play Checkers...
And or its fork, LibreOffice. I use both due to some preferences, mainly because LibreOffice Format - Area > Gradient enables easy extensive ability to customize colors such as within a frame. Like (colors do not have lines as seen here)
Vista was counter-intuitive to any previous windows release.
Yes it was/is. The next best is Mint cinnamon. It all operates the same. Hard to tell the difference in most cases.
They missed the 15 3.5” floppies of Windows Run Time 386, back in 1988. What a mess that one was.
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