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I can't tell you which window was the best XP or 7 but for me it's somewhere between the two. Although I used vista for a long time perfectly fine and people hated that one.
I feel privileged that I got to use these great operating system for so long.
It's what made me good at computers to start with.
I still remember the XP error sound. It was the stuff of nightmares. And in those days, we weren't taught how to use a Modem because my mum didn't like us using the internet and instead brought an encyclopedia for school stuff, so I would have to fix all the shit I fucked up without google before anyone found out. Fun times. Really improved my troubleshooting skills, though.
During some practical school training (basically two weeks where pupils are send to work in companies full-time without pay) at an electronics shop, someone brought in a Windows XP machine that caused problems. Heard that sound so often...
Turned out they still ran it without any Service Packs. Windows Update also refused to work… and it was registered to those fine people called "Skidrow" (the cracking group). 😅
At that time those registration cracks already supported Windows Update, they should've updated that one!
I bet there are a lot of machines like that. I knew this one person, a biology teacher whose lab computer still had 7, but it ran perfectly well. She refused to upgrade it to 8/10 because there really was nothing wrong with it. Many people I know with very old machines still have their OS because it just ... works. Might differ in the States though, tech becomes mainstream here at least five years after it is released.