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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When it became more profitable for them to develop it to be shit

Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0) was the last great version of windows. It was fucking fantastic.

I’ve also heard great things about Windows server 2008, but I had departed from the entire Microsoft sphere years before that.

*nix4Lyf!