• Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The Home editions included hardware restrictions (a maximum of either 8 or 16 GB RAM depending on which of the two versions you got, and you couldn’t change language in any of the commercially available versions. While I can’t remember anything wrong with it, I was also like 10 when I used it and I highly suspect everyone’s memories of it are being biased by just how absolute dogshit 8 was on release.

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        11 hours ago

        Right, that edition is listed after enterprise on Wikipedia so my eyes just completely bounced over the fact it could be upgraded to from Pro.

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      14 hours ago

      Everyother version of windows has been good, the others are shit…

      Gotta admit the pattern has held true

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        14 hours ago

        Except that implies Windows 12 or whatever is going to be good, which I currently struggle to imagine is possible without major structural changes to Microsoft’s entire corporate structure.

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          13 hours ago

          Except compare windows 8 to windows 10 totally different and they changed their entire direction. It’s possible.

          I feel like they go “we need something new and fast. Forget quality or what people want just make it new and different.” and then a few years later “that was a mistake, make it work well and listen to the customers”… And repeat

          Granted I’m running Debian but…