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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 54352

Linus Tech Tips has released a new video ranking every major version of Windows from 1.0 to Windows 11. Windows 7 received the highest rating, earning an S-tier for its stability, performance, and refinements over Vista. Windows 8 was ranked the worst with an F, mainly due to the controversial removal of the

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Csimbi · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2026 10:26 pm Post subject:

The title should be: Linus ranks every Windows version he knows after his big break from diapers.
I won't comment on pre Windows 3.11 because let's face it, they were largely useless. You did not use it unless you had to.
I loved the OS/2 Warp shell for Windows 3.11, it was very nice and usable.
Windows 95 was meh. I mostly went back to DOS instead; the only reasons to boot up to Win95 were a) to burn CDs and b) work in office.
Win98SE was the next best (the first real step away from DOS) and then Windows 2k brought reliability and then these two combined became XP.

Sabot · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2026 11:28 pm Post subject:

Win98SE, XP and 7 were my favs for gaming.

Penetreitor · Junior Member Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 171

With Windows 7 you still OWN your computer...

I had to switch to Windows 10 because the lack of antivirus automatic updates and the support for DX12.

But most of the DX12 new cames are crap, no one is better than DX11 Skyrim.

I'm serously considering move to Linux.