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by ricardobayes 156 days ago
To be fair, compared to Linux (and to an extent, Mac), Windows has been sluggish, bloated and unreliable for a long time. XP was the last one that felt "solid", aka: fast, reliable and "just works".
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> reliable and "just works".

Getting advanced drivers on XP was often an absolute nightmare.

> XP was the last one that felt "solid",

You mean XP SP2 ?