Bring back XP!
WinXP never went away, you just have to hunt around to find a legit, non-malware installation .ISO file. Minimum of SP3. Put it up behind a real good firewall, or run it as a VM, and get all the Windows Update patches that are available.
And then never, ever, connect your WinXP machine to the internet ever again. :-)
How about win 3.1 or win 95
I had XP on an HP laptop. That was the last Windows OS I used.
I liked XP, but decided to try something different when the laptop gave up. iOS.
NOW, I don’t do Windows….🙂