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Not sure why we're surprised. And even then, it took a while for the "good" OSes to get good. Windows 7 is remembered fondly because it ended well, not because it started well.
Windows 95: OK Windows 98: Bad Windows 98 SE: OK Windows ME/2000: Bad Windows XP: OK Windows Vista: Bad Windows 7: OK Windows 8: Bad Windows 10: OK Windows 11: Bad
2000 ran the best and was the most stable of all of them for me.
This is selective memory. XP was terrible until SP2. Do you not remember every PC in the world getting the blaster worm.
Windows 98 wasn't bad. It was a big improvement in stability over 95. Windows ME/2000 were two completely separate products. Win 2000 was based on NT which always got better until maybe Vista. Vista itself wasn't bad. The problem was end users not liking security. Vista made it easier than sudo to temporarily elevate security and everyone still complained. So they backed off on 7 which was less secure because it didn't enforce security elevation as much.
You also can't list 98SE and ignore Win 8.1. 8.1 was a bandaid fix for the start menu of 8 but was still a bad. Not to mention that there was also Win95 OSR1 and Win95 OSR2.
There's no significant difference between 10 and 11 to claim one is good and the other is bad. All the spyware and advertising garbage in 11 was also in 10.
We can all agree that ME was a complete clusterfuck, though. "What if your desktop was also a Webpage and what if it crashed about every hour?"
I think it was every N cpu cycles it bluescreened.. So on a 233mhz you might get 8h.. 1.4ghz yes every hour..
ME is when I switched to Linux just sometimes I also have a windows machine.. Like the win10 gaming laptop that is really end of life.. (If you don't want gaming sure it could be fine on Linux but it's wasn't intended to live this long so a good gaming machine before the year of win10 extended support ends is likely in my future.. And will likely run Linux)