To me XP always looked ridiculous. Like an April’s fool joke, „Windows Toys“r“us Edition“. I still can’t believe that it was used to run nuclear power plants (it probably still does).

The first thing I always did with any XP install was to switch to the W2k look. It saved screen space, too.

Agreed, 7 was the last Windows I felt had more to love than to complain about. When 10 entered a silly update failed - keep retrying failing updates just to fail again loop I just said nah not worth it and switched permanently to linux mint. It was the last straw so to speak. I was supposed to install an update manager and use it to install updates instead? Bleh.

Some audio tweaks here, some kernel tweaks there, we've been through a lot together already this OS and I :D

I think mobile OS designed also peaked with Windows Phone 7. Android and iOS haven't touched the intuitiveness and usability it had. Not to mention the Nokia Lumia hardware was light-years better in build quality then even most Android phones today.

They were too late too market and lost developer mindshare with the Windows Mobile to Phone transition.

I always felt XP looked like a toy, compared to say Windows 2000 or NT 4.

It certainly grated if you were coming to it from macOS.

Mac OS? or OS X? "macOS" didn't exist at the time. ;)

Probably Mac OS 9. I still hit command + n for a new folder, and get a new window. I loved that OS, but if I checked it out now I sure I’d be very disappointed.

More like we’re all just all getting old

Still using 7 when I'm not using Linux. Every new Windows after that just gave you more bloat you didn't ask for. Unsure whether the OS should run on a desktop or a tablet.