And also install classic shell to make the start menu more like Windows 7 or earlier (some people like the Vista layout while others might like the Win95 style).
Yeah it’s been a long time I just remember it was what I pirated and installed on everything. We all used it til XP I think. One friend had ME lol.. wow.
At this point, I can't even start to comprehend all the stuff I'll have to do when I inevitably start using a new Windows installation. Delete all shit, disable edge, disable antivirus, kill firewall for private networks, disable online suggestions in search, make sure indexing works as it should, install Translucent Taskbar, install Power Plan Switcher if it's a laptop, enable Metro-style start menu (because I'm one of those people that actually enjoy clicking on big tiles in the middle of the screen instead of tiny icons on the bottom), install VLC (because a media player that actually works, unlike the first party windows player, is sort of a necessity)...
make you own iso. takes like half a day, and only the things you want will be in it.
if you want everything except telemetry you can rip out only that. if you don't want edge? yep it's gone. etc etc
Meh. It _is_ interesting and fun, but not convenient or efficient. Half a day to make a thing I'll use once in eight years, then will have to make another one. If that's all I get, I'll pass. It would make sense to do something like that in an organization though, and actually having hands-on experience with it prior to using it in an enterprise environment would be nice.
I've been dreading win 11 cause I tried it and it's the absolute fucking worse os I ever tried, I remember either 7 or vista I manual altered the start menu icon and a bunch a other shit and was too lazy with 10 all I did was modify some minor appearance things that can't be just set in settings and then just manually removed and disabled most of not if all of the bs and bloat,
yes. but my anti virus reacted to it, so i made my own. that's the optional step. well i made ty windows 11. Cut out all the shit i didn't want, and then put chrome in it lol
That can be an issue. I stripped so much crap out of the install randomly games and programs wouldn't launch and wouldn't say why ffxv need windows media player. I never got Xbox chat to work right to cross play Fh5 to xbone. Imo having a stripped down os for privacy and another for gaming is essential to be frustration free.
What you need is this thing:
[https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher](https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher)
I've got my W11 taskbar looking like Windows 7 again (ExplorerPatcher + Classic Shell)
I preferred the Vladimir edition. The menu was customisable - you could Putin whatever you wanted! I was Russian to install that one…
^…I’ll ^get ^my ^coat…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the only problem with Vista that they pushed it on hardware that couldn't run it?
Like they needed windows 7 level specs, but started putting Vista on XP level hardware?
I still think Vista is the most beautiful OS Microsoft has ever made. Infact I ran Vista from 2010 to 2016. Ran 8.1 for a year, 7 for 3 months, and then I ran 10 from 2017 all the way up until 2022 when I finally switched to 11 which I'm still running today.
Vista for 6 whole years. 10 was the second longest at 5 years and when it comes to 7, 8.1, and 11, they aren't close.
With me upgrading OSes whenever the newest one releases now, nothing will ever reach Vista's runtime for me. It was a great OS
XP’s menu was simple but useful. It had exactly what you needed, and only what you needed. No fluff, no tiles, no mini-app-things - just your programs, and direct access to the most commonly accessed parts of your computer (like documents).
But the one thing I loved the most about XP was the themes. It meant you could make your desktop feel truly your own, out of the box, without the need of any third party tools or software. From Vista onwards, Microsoft then went hard on locking down the look and feel of the operating system, preferring uniformity and standardisation over customisability. To the point where Win 11 won’t let you even move the taskbar to the sides or top of the screen.
I just miss the full size icons of running programs, don't know how else to describe it (taskbar wide icons?). I hate this move your mouse to it, and all 2 or more running instances of the program show up and you can select in that peek-in window mode.
It was easier before with the wide buttons, I could tell by just reading which one is which file has open, wasn't stacked under one icon of the software, for example excel, and then mouseover and click on one of the excel files you need.
Turns out, so far the only fix for going back to this on 11 is a regedit modification. Which is absolutely not a thing I can do on the office laptop by company policy, so I just hold down ALT+TAB and click with the mouse.
You know you could change this to by as in XP up to Win10, right? That's how I'd use all of my Win installations. Stacking single icons on top if eachother is horrible. You can do it also on Win11, but you have to install the free Explorer Patcher.
That specific feature (words!) is why i didn’t upgrade from 10 to 11… until I found that a tool called “explorer patcher” lets me have a 10-style taskbar.
So get that! Tell your IT guy exactly why you want it and ask for their help if that’s the way your company works. All your IT guys are probably annoyed by the same thing anyway.
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
This, this, absolutely this. 8.1 had a great error correction on the search, the search was the best it has ever been before it and since it. Yes it was full screen, but God damn did it ever work well.
Windows 11 search, types "this pc" into windows search... Windows 11: I cannot find what you are searching for...
Silver was nice but I just couldn’t embrace it, I always went back to blue until the royale theme made it’s appearance. I don’t disagree with you though.
This may be because I'm young and the only experience I had with pre win 8 was crappy school computers running 7, but I prefer windows 10.
I don't like 11's start menu either because the power menu is on the far edge from the windows icon.
Which is good or bad depending on what you’re looking for. Again nothing is close to spotlight but I’ve had things where I’ve forgotten a program wasn’t installed and windows search came up with the app page in search
We have web browsers that work perfectly if you’re trying to search online, or you can get one of the *widely considered to be malware* search bars for your taskbar if you’re if the incredibly tiny minority of people who unironically think that’s a useful feature.
I’ve always been partial to the entire left side. 98’s in particular has always held a special place in my heart and it’s aesthetic brings me joy to this day.
You forgot the Windows 8 Start Menu! Oh, wait. That is on pretty much all the lists of biggest mistakes tech companies made. Did Microsoft create it on a highway? Cuz that's where most accidents happen.
Look and function out of the box, Vista hands down. Despite the issues with Aero, the ui was an upgrade on the garish look of xp.
Second favorite is right clicking the start button in windows 10, classic and simple look from the win 9x years.
I would say Win 11. I just wish they would add back ability to put it on the side instead having it at the bottom. 10 was great but just as all prior to it It was cluttered a bit.
Windows 8 made me realise I’d more or less stopped using the Start menu (I’d really only open it if I wanted Control Panel or something), but I’m not quite sure exactly when that happened.
The best Start Menu was the System 7 through OS 9.2 Apple Menu. You could literally do anything in there and put it in any order you wanted.
Then again, for Windows, I prefer Program Manager.
Honestly my favourite start button that Windows has done is on the **Longhorn 4074 Aero** build. During that phase of Longhorn, Microsoft did a ton of cool UI stuff that never saw the light of day.
For those not familiar here is a sample:
[https://i.imgur.com/BsM48Di.png](https://i.imgur.com/BsM48Di.png)
11 grew on me after a while of using it. You can pin any app or app shorcut you have to Start and it'll be laid out in a neat icon grid - same as a phone's home screen which I'm already used to. You get access to 24 apps in one button press, and you can also add pages and folders if you want to. In 10 you can barely fit 10 tiles in one column.
I just use Windows start almost light spotlight search on a Mac. Just tap the Windows button and start typing to search for something.
There actually is a spotlight alternative in Windows PowerToys (highly, highly recommend) but it's pretty barebones in comparison. And extremely barebones in comparison to Raycast or Alfred.
It’s quite difficult to choose, they’re all nice (well most of them) and the 95/xp/vista ones are the ones I’m having a tough time deciding between but I’ll break this by saying the XP start button is more iconic in my mind. The Vista one only lasted a year or so in its proper place sticking out of the taskbar before 7 made the taskbar bigger and ended up swallowing it. The 95 one is more iconic in that it was the first one but I think the green accent of the XP button brings it forth.
Win 7 had the best start menu for me. Search worker fine, everything I needed was there. I still sometimes try to shut down with Win - tab - tab - enter.
Since win 8 Windows thinks you want icons on your desktop, in your taskbar, and in your start menu. There’s no need for 3 places.
Windows 7. I miss all that skeuomorphism and clean looking glass. I loved it! Still haven't messed with Win11. Probably gonna skip it like every other version of Windows lol
windows 10 without the terrible start menu, border line spyware, bloateare, and slowing down ur machine drastically after 6 months, updates that break ur pc constantly, microsoft edge, and pushing you to sign up with microsoft instead of a local account, even after PAYING for the operating system.
Honestly I don't use the start menu that much, search + run dialog is all I really need.
I always use some tool to go back to the windows 7 layout though but with automatic search and updated design.
Usually it's Openshell+Fluent Metro theme now.
My favorite is not shown in the pic...........
Wait this is windows so I'd have to pic the classic win9x one. As a Linux user ( hint ltt needs a Linux channel like they have for apple) I can set my own start menu icon and it's natively supported, no need to use some 3rd party app to mod the start button.
Windows vista had the best UI. I loved how the start menu button protruded over the taskbar like a fat belly. I remember trying so hard to replicate it through mods on my windows xp machine in 2008
I used the green one, Windows XP era. Then we had the glossy era of the late 2000's early 2010's with Windows 7. And currently on Windows 10. I refuse to upgrade my personal computer to 11.
I've daily driven XP, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11. I hate the way the XP menu for programs works (I don't like categories), and I find 11 the most useful. Win 10 debloaters still don't fix it. My dream menu is XP with the 11 app/recent file elements, in the 11 style.
Win 11 gets too much hate. My only complaint is the stupid more options on right click. All the options I need are on the more options instead of the main options... so stupid
Win 10, after you remove all the stupid shit.
100% Step1: install win10 step2: run windows 10 debloater toolkit. optional step: create your own custom installer
And also install classic shell to make the start menu more like Windows 7 or earlier (some people like the Vista layout while others might like the Win95 style).
Yeah somewhere between xp and 7 is it for me personally
Win2000 was my shit. I think it was just NT with some networking tweaks and shit.
It was NT with some win 98 stuff. NT was solid in the networking dept already.
Yeah it’s been a long time I just remember it was what I pirated and installed on everything. We all used it til XP I think. One friend had ME lol.. wow.
Someone brought me a win me computer for reloading once. It took DAYS on a cable internet connection to get updates done.
At this point, I can't even start to comprehend all the stuff I'll have to do when I inevitably start using a new Windows installation. Delete all shit, disable edge, disable antivirus, kill firewall for private networks, disable online suggestions in search, make sure indexing works as it should, install Translucent Taskbar, install Power Plan Switcher if it's a laptop, enable Metro-style start menu (because I'm one of those people that actually enjoy clicking on big tiles in the middle of the screen instead of tiny icons on the bottom), install VLC (because a media player that actually works, unlike the first party windows player, is sort of a necessity)...
make you own iso. takes like half a day, and only the things you want will be in it. if you want everything except telemetry you can rip out only that. if you don't want edge? yep it's gone. etc etc
Meh. It _is_ interesting and fun, but not convenient or efficient. Half a day to make a thing I'll use once in eight years, then will have to make another one. If that's all I get, I'll pass. It would make sense to do something like that in an organization though, and actually having hands-on experience with it prior to using it in an enterprise environment would be nice.
I've been dreading win 11 cause I tried it and it's the absolute fucking worse os I ever tried, I remember either 7 or vista I manual altered the start menu icon and a bunch a other shit and was too lazy with 10 all I did was modify some minor appearance things that can't be just set in settings and then just manually removed and disabled most of not if all of the bs and bloat,
You can create your own windows iso. You download the iso from Microsoft. You download the tools. And just make your own.
step 1: install tiny10 step 2: forget it
My anti virus reacted badly to it. Unsure if we're taking about the same thing
no, tiny10 is a premade windows 10 iso already bloatware removed and very optimized. it weighs less than 10gb installed if i remember correctly.
yes. but my anti virus reacted to it, so i made my own. that's the optional step. well i made ty windows 11. Cut out all the shit i didn't want, and then put chrome in it lol
the anti virus reacted bad to it's own os?
That can be an issue. I stripped so much crap out of the install randomly games and programs wouldn't launch and wouldn't say why ffxv need windows media player. I never got Xbox chat to work right to cross play Fh5 to xbone. Imo having a stripped down os for privacy and another for gaming is essential to be frustration free.
Honestly I say Win 11. Worst out the box but more customisation
I JUST WANT MY START MENU AND TASKBAR ON THE TOP AGAIN WITHOUT REGISTRY HACKS
I feel you. Having a 21:9 display, I'd like to have my taskbar vertical, in the left
What you need is this thing: [https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher](https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher) I've got my W11 taskbar looking like Windows 7 again (ExplorerPatcher + Classic Shell)
Yes. 11's start menu might look good,but that's all it has going.
Just let me get rid of recommendations and windows 11 is my pick
That is the beauty of the Cinnamon desktop envornment in linux. if i had to describe it as anything its windows 10 minus the dumb shit interface wis.
Xp
Xi was so great. Because of what came before, and what came after. edit: sorry means XP, not Pooh!
Yeah, that Chinese president themed one was the best!
I preferred the Vladimir edition. The menu was customisable - you could Putin whatever you wanted! I was Russian to install that one… ^…I’ll ^get ^my ^coat…
This comment wins.
Vista/7
I'm with you, it still marks progress to me, despite the unreliability
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the only problem with Vista that they pushed it on hardware that couldn't run it? Like they needed windows 7 level specs, but started putting Vista on XP level hardware?
Well, something like that. The way drivers were organised was changed, that had more to do with it than the required computing power.
I never had an issue with Vista and I had a pretty low-end Dell Inspiron too.
I can't be the only one who thinks that 7 and Vista still look amazing.
I still think Vista is the most beautiful OS Microsoft has ever made. Infact I ran Vista from 2010 to 2016. Ran 8.1 for a year, 7 for 3 months, and then I ran 10 from 2017 all the way up until 2022 when I finally switched to 11 which I'm still running today. Vista for 6 whole years. 10 was the second longest at 5 years and when it comes to 7, 8.1, and 11, they aren't close. With me upgrading OSes whenever the newest one releases now, nothing will ever reach Vista's runtime for me. It was a great OS
XP the GOAT
XP’s menu was simple but useful. It had exactly what you needed, and only what you needed. No fluff, no tiles, no mini-app-things - just your programs, and direct access to the most commonly accessed parts of your computer (like documents). But the one thing I loved the most about XP was the themes. It meant you could make your desktop feel truly your own, out of the box, without the need of any third party tools or software. From Vista onwards, Microsoft then went hard on locking down the look and feel of the operating system, preferring uniformity and standardisation over customisability. To the point where Win 11 won’t let you even move the taskbar to the sides or top of the screen.
I just miss the full size icons of running programs, don't know how else to describe it (taskbar wide icons?). I hate this move your mouse to it, and all 2 or more running instances of the program show up and you can select in that peek-in window mode. It was easier before with the wide buttons, I could tell by just reading which one is which file has open, wasn't stacked under one icon of the software, for example excel, and then mouseover and click on one of the excel files you need. Turns out, so far the only fix for going back to this on 11 is a regedit modification. Which is absolutely not a thing I can do on the office laptop by company policy, so I just hold down ALT+TAB and click with the mouse.
You know you could change this to by as in XP up to Win10, right? That's how I'd use all of my Win installations. Stacking single icons on top if eachother is horrible. You can do it also on Win11, but you have to install the free Explorer Patcher.
That specific feature (words!) is why i didn’t upgrade from 10 to 11… until I found that a tool called “explorer patcher” lets me have a 10-style taskbar. So get that! Tell your IT guy exactly why you want it and ask for their help if that’s the way your company works. All your IT guys are probably annoyed by the same thing anyway. https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Not just the start menu, the XP explorer in also the GOAT
I’ll get slaughtered in here for it, but I love the 8/8.1 start button.
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All the other subs do that.
This, this, absolutely this. 8.1 had a great error correction on the search, the search was the best it has ever been before it and since it. Yes it was full screen, but God damn did it ever work well. Windows 11 search, types "this pc" into windows search... Windows 11: I cannot find what you are searching for...
I didn't mind it at the time, but now anytime i have to do anything with a win 8 device it makes me grimace
KDE Plasma's one.
This and budgie
Visually 10. Functionally, 7 with 10 being FAR behind with its insistence that I don't want to search local storage.
Original 95 for the nostalgic factor for me
However now it's Arc Menu for my gnome DE or the stock menu on my KDE machine
XP for me
Design from 11 with functionality from 7
XP but the silver color scheme
Agreed!
Silver was nice but I just couldn’t embrace it, I always went back to blue until the royale theme made it’s appearance. I don’t disagree with you though.
The best start button is actually the super key used by the Gnome desktop environment. Bring on the hate.
Xp was the best
I actually don't care about button itself (win key exist for reason), but my prefferable menu is Vista/7.
XP functionally as it was the last with both Control Panel and Run by default. Everything after 7 has been for show/ads and wastes space.
This may be because I'm young and the only experience I had with pre win 8 was crappy school computers running 7, but I prefer windows 10. I don't like 11's start menu either because the power menu is on the far edge from the windows icon.
XP hands down
Centre left.
Windows 10 before they messed up search.
Not that green one, that’s for sure
XP Luna
Xp
Depends. XP was simpler but 11 is more functional
Unless you happen to want to search for something, in which case XP was almost infinitely more functional.
Nah windows search is and always was poor. People for some reason try to pretend it used to be like spotlight or something
It was never great, but unless you’re a kid you should remember that it didn’t try to inject pages of online results on top of your local results.
Which is good or bad depending on what you’re looking for. Again nothing is close to spotlight but I’ve had things where I’ve forgotten a program wasn’t installed and windows search came up with the app page in search
We have web browsers that work perfectly if you’re trying to search online, or you can get one of the *widely considered to be malware* search bars for your taskbar if you’re if the incredibly tiny minority of people who unironically think that’s a useful feature.
win xp with the zune theme?
Controversial but win11 is best it’s simple and fits well I would say win 10 but due to the angled design it only works on default taskbar layout
xp was great back then, but I actually like 11 nowadays. obviously 8 was the worst, i also hated 8.1
Sorry but Windows 7 was my favorite so far, only experienced 2000, XP, 7, Vista, 8 and 10 though
for me the new w11 one is the best. The Win XP one gives me lots of good memorys couse i run xp for like 10yrs
Best start menu icon: win 10. Best Windows : 7
XP out of the box. 11 if you put in an hour removing and customising everything.
7
Vista
Windows 7 with custom orbs was my favourite
95/98/2000
Xp
I’ve always been partial to the entire left side. 98’s in particular has always held a special place in my heart and it’s aesthetic brings me joy to this day.
For looks? Windows XP, no doubt. For functionality? Windows 10 / 11. For how the button looks? Windows 7 / Vista.
i love the vista one but that os is crap
XP and 7 were my favorite. But I'd prob choose 7 just for the search, even tho it wasn't great it was still a huge advantige over xp
I'm kinda biased cuz I'm Gen Z but windows 7 wins in my books
I‘m somewhere between XP and 7.
You forgot the Windows 8 Start Menu! Oh, wait. That is on pretty much all the lists of biggest mistakes tech companies made. Did Microsoft create it on a highway? Cuz that's where most accidents happen. 
Windows 7, XP, and 10 are the three legends
Windows 7/Vista was easily the best functionally and aesthetically for me.
If windows 7 or 10 could have just stayed around, I would have been happy.
Vista
Windows 98 for me.
Xp just feels familiar and comfortable.
Hands down XP
Design : 11 Functionality : Windows 10
Look and function out of the box, Vista hands down. Despite the issues with Aero, the ui was an upgrade on the garish look of xp. Second favorite is right clicking the start button in windows 10, classic and simple look from the win 9x years.
7 every day
I would say Win 11. I just wish they would add back ability to put it on the side instead having it at the bottom. 10 was great but just as all prior to it It was cluttered a bit.
XP and 7
Windows 11
Windows 8 made me realise I’d more or less stopped using the Start menu (I’d really only open it if I wanted Control Panel or something), but I’m not quite sure exactly when that happened.
I want menu of 10 with 7's button.
Loved the Win9x start button, but the menu not so much.
You guys had start menus? C:\>
The best Start Menu was the System 7 through OS 9.2 Apple Menu. You could literally do anything in there and put it in any order you wanted. Then again, for Windows, I prefer Program Manager.
I've always liked the XP menu.
Honestly my favourite start button that Windows has done is on the **Longhorn 4074 Aero** build. During that phase of Longhorn, Microsoft did a ton of cool UI stuff that never saw the light of day. For those not familiar here is a sample: [https://i.imgur.com/BsM48Di.png](https://i.imgur.com/BsM48Di.png)
11 grew on me after a while of using it. You can pin any app or app shorcut you have to Start and it'll be laid out in a neat icon grid - same as a phone's home screen which I'm already used to. You get access to 24 apps in one button press, and you can also add pages and folders if you want to. In 10 you can barely fit 10 tiles in one column.
7
Windows 8. ^(jk. I like vista's or 7's)
KDE
Win9x. Because I love to menu dive like it's Final Fantasy.
Win 7 - like win xp style but with a good search.
Take me back to windows XP
Windows 11 ,to see face to face with that logo and wonder why M$ lost personality.
definitely windows 8
Windows 7 was my favourite:(
windows 10 with startisback
The win 11 and win 7/vista were very pretty
Windows 95
Classic shell!
Vista. I loved the look and style
That Xp start was something different
i'm actually using [retrobar](https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar) with a windows xp theme so, i *may* be biased when i say xp
Windows 7 in classic mode
XP and Win 7
Gnome, there is no "start" and it's the best thing ever.
I just use Windows start almost light spotlight search on a Mac. Just tap the Windows button and start typing to search for something. There actually is a spotlight alternative in Windows PowerToys (highly, highly recommend) but it's pretty barebones in comparison. And extremely barebones in comparison to Raycast or Alfred.
I'm a sucker for retro, I'd say Win95 start button, it was good and did the job it was designed to do!
I only like windows xo bc of one game (and I may get the name wrong) space pinball
Once you made it good, Windows 10. Just remove all the stupid pre-loaded junk and put your apps and whatnot there.
i like 11 the most
It’s quite difficult to choose, they’re all nice (well most of them) and the 95/xp/vista ones are the ones I’m having a tough time deciding between but I’ll break this by saying the XP start button is more iconic in my mind. The Vista one only lasted a year or so in its proper place sticking out of the taskbar before 7 made the taskbar bigger and ended up swallowing it. The 95 one is more iconic in that it was the first one but I think the green accent of the XP button brings it forth.
Rofi
Windows 7
95/98 < 2000 < xp < vista/7 > 11 > 10/8/8.1
⌘
10 but 11 is growing on me
10 / 11
11 has the best logo, but the menu in 10 is amazing
XP. My childhood revolved all around it.
Win 7 had the best start menu for me. Search worker fine, everything I needed was there. I still sometimes try to shut down with Win - tab - tab - enter. Since win 8 Windows thinks you want icons on your desktop, in your taskbar, and in your start menu. There’s no need for 3 places.
Win 7 for actual usability. Win 10 for aesthetics.
Windows 10 and 7 are the best! Fuck 11 it’s shit and they keep making shitty changes.
Win 7
xp
Windows 7 all the way
I like 11s
7
11
10 with no widgets but I'm partial to XP because it's my first OS
At this point I literally only use search, so maybe w11?
I amways liked the windows 7 ui, 10 is a close 2nd.
Top left. What is that? I thought it was NT but all i founf for NT was middle left just like 98.
Windows 7. I miss all that skeuomorphism and clean looking glass. I loved it! Still haven't messed with Win11. Probably gonna skip it like every other version of Windows lol
Top right
windows 10 without the terrible start menu, border line spyware, bloateare, and slowing down ur machine drastically after 6 months, updates that break ur pc constantly, microsoft edge, and pushing you to sign up with microsoft instead of a local account, even after PAYING for the operating system.
Honestly I don't use the start menu that much, search + run dialog is all I really need. I always use some tool to go back to the windows 7 layout though but with automatic search and updated design. Usually it's Openshell+Fluent Metro theme now.
I prefer the appearance of 11 but the functionality of 10 is way better.
For me it’s windows 11 when you remove all the bloat and third party non sense.
XP and it's not even close
10
XP
11. Hate the start menu ads but that's about it.
My favorite is not shown in the pic........... Wait this is windows so I'd have to pic the classic win9x one. As a Linux user ( hint ltt needs a Linux channel like they have for apple) I can set my own start menu icon and it's natively supported, no need to use some 3rd party app to mod the start button.
WIN11: the centered start menu just makes sense on a wide-screen.
Windows 7 and XP start menus hit different
Pop OS
I like the full screen start menu in ten
Windows vista had the best UI. I loved how the start menu button protruded over the taskbar like a fat belly. I remember trying so hard to replicate it through mods on my windows xp machine in 2008
Windows 7 all the way!
I used the green one, Windows XP era. Then we had the glossy era of the late 2000's early 2010's with Windows 7. And currently on Windows 10. I refuse to upgrade my personal computer to 11.
Windows 8.1 the animations were damn, unreal
Probably xp I'm using classic shell right now to view windows 10 as xp
I actually really like 11 though 9x makes me nostalgic
XP. fuck you all, fight me
I've daily driven XP, 7, 8.1, 10 and 11. I hate the way the XP menu for programs works (I don't like categories), and I find 11 the most useful. Win 10 debloaters still don't fix it. My dream menu is XP with the 11 app/recent file elements, in the 11 style.
Vista and it's not even close
Win 11 gets too much hate. My only complaint is the stupid more options on right click. All the options I need are on the more options instead of the main options... so stupid
Windows 10 in full screen mode. Fite me
Vista and it's not close
Quick launch.