[vunderba]

I grew up using pretty much every major Windows OS release (3.11, 9x, 2000, XP, etc.) and that comment about bringing back Windows 7 was on point. That was the turning point for me when I felt like it was the relatively perfect OS.

It got out of my way and acted as a nearly frictionless layer between the user and the programs.

[ferrouswheel]

I would pay good money for win7 resurrection.

I'm usually a cross OS/platform guy. Using each for what they are good at. But lately Win11 has just felt like it's not bringing anything to the table except pain. Especially with Steam making linux so attractive for gaming lately.

[araes]

Win7's still pretty heavily used even today. Still has about 2.5% of all desktop searches from Windows hardware worldwide.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/d...

[zinekeller]

StatCounter's data is known to be contaminated by bots: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

[araes]

Fair criticism. Better or alternative known sources for Windows version usage without bot contamination?

[ClimaxGravely]

100% It just worked and very few issues.

I'm trying to switch to desktop linux these days. It's way better but still a few kinks relative to my windows7 experience but if they get there I'm done with Windows for personal stuff, hopefully work as well some day.

[fakedang]

Honestly if there were an Office, or rather Excel, alternative that ran on Linux perfectly, people would have switched aeons ago, even in corporate.

[cornonthecobra]

OnlyOffice is pretty darn good IME. I use it with some function-heavy accounting workbooks, and a gf uses it for her interactice rail network time tables fed via python from RTT et al.

It even has a complete dark mode.