@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org For me it was almost the exact opposite 😅
No, of course I've used Windows 95 along with OS/2 Warp — and many did, Windows wasn't THAT mainstream at the time. Maybe even Windows 98, but not anything beyond that. A friend of mine gave me a RedHat CD (It was so long ago, there was no RHEL, it was just RedHat), told me it was the new cool free UNIX-like thing and I went with that. In 2000s Mac OS X got released, I liked Apple hardware so I switched to Macs.
@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Windows 8 was the first Windows I was running on my computers in a long time. I didn't like iOS and I just hated Android so I've tried a Windows Phone 7 based Lumia. The battery life was horrible so I've returned it, but I liked the tiles. So when Windows 8 consumer preview images became available and I've tried that.
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I was like: "Wow, there is no Windows95-style Start (I really hated that) anymore, now it's full screen and there are huge buttons for your favourite applications and if it's not there, you can just type it's name! That it what an application launcher should look like!"
But everyone else hated it so MS decided to "make Windows great again" and removed all things I likes. It was getting worse with every major Windows version.
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They've made the button visible again in 8.1 and they've made a setting in Windows 10 to make it look more XP-like and with Windows 11 look almost as horrible as Windows XP did. So I'm back to linux-based opetating systems. Good thing, there is #VoidLinux now so I don't have systemd and I don't have to fsck around with it all day like I did with Gentoo 🤭