What's your favorite? For me, it's 2001-2006 (Windows XP), royal navy blue

>windows 11 era 2022 - present
but windows 11 only gained a majority in 2024...

>>713936515 (OP)
2022-present
Windows 11

xp era was the greatest. so much innovation in tech and games. i miss thos mmos

>>713936515 (OP)
For me, it's a toss up between Windows 98 and Windows XP.

>>713936515 (OP)
I prefer the Linux era myself

>>713936905
Nice, when does it start?

>>713936515 (OP)
in terms of nostalgia, 98, otherwise current

>>713936515 (OP)
Nobody used Vista during the Vista era. Some used 8, but Vista was practically unusable. Might as well put ME on there if Vista's on it.

>>713937001
yeah i used vista in 2011 from my work laptop

>>713936515 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPRtYvCvZI

>inb4 the wise trailer park anon cries that it's actually bad that logos are becoming simpler and more iconic in people's minds

>>713936960
LMAO

>>713937246
If only it could play Valorant, Fortnite and Fall Guys.

>>713936960
2018.
>uhh but it's not massively popular with normies yet
Good. Thank fuck. I'm not the other guy btw, and I'd argue there was no good reason to bring up GNU/Linux in this thread, but it happened and people are going to seethe uncontrollably anyway, so I might as well comment. Works on my machine. Stay on Windows though. An operating system is just a tool and if the one you're using does its job to your satisfaction then there's no reason to install another one. Linux is for people who hate Windows, and Linux gaming is for gamers who hate Windows. Simple as.

>>713936515 (OP)
The xp era lasted until 2014 because that's when I had to switch to 7

>>713937521
>An operating system is just a tool and if the one you're using does its job to your satisfaction then there's no reason to install another one.
That's a very sensible take and I agree, but if everyone agreed to this then there'd be no controversy, wouldn't it

>>713936515 (OP)
I got my first actual gaming PC with a dedicated Graphics Card in 2012 so that time for sure, would never want to game on a laptop again. Every other time I was casual or a little kid even tho I did play kino games like Diablo 2, AoE II, Sims 1.

>>713937521
I was being flippant, I am actually planning on switching to Linux instead of W11.

>>713938063
Based as hell, anon. 2012 was peak hype-Max Payne 3, Dishonored, Borderlands 2, and modding Skyrim into Oblivion 2.0. That was the golden age of Steam sales too, when you'd drop five bucks and come back with six GOTY editions. Finally moving off integrated graphics felt like a cheat code-just seeing shadows in games was magic.

>>713936515 (OP)
I've had fewer struggles getting games to work well on my Windows 11 machine than in any previous era.

>>713936515 (OP)
The 1990s.
-Huge technological leaps every single year
-Exclusives, so many fucking exclusives
-The quality of games was sky high

>>713936604
If you think the eras are defined by when the respective OS's became dominant, why the fuck would you only take issue with 11? Do you seriously think everyone jumped ship to Vista in 2007 and 8 in 2012?

>>713936515 (OP)
why did they skip 9 again?

>>713942750
It's also weird that if it's based on dominance, he shouldn't have even mentioned Windows prior to 3.1 (1992).

>>713936515 (OP)
>windows 11 icon is just 4 blue squares
What were they thinking?

>>713942750
Vista hate was manufactured, literally nobody used 8 willingly though.

>>713943440
Vista's hate was reactionary after ME. It wasn't even remotely worth leaving XP for until 7. Also realized ME isn't on the list either lmao

>>713943550
>The most aesthetic UI of all time wasn't a good enough reason

>>713943617
Spoken like a true macfag.
I'm still on windows 7 using the windows 98 theme.

>>713943665
Applefags which they had anything as good as Vista's Aero, hence Apple now shoveling out Liquid Glass.

>>713937367
it's literally 4 squares
how's that fucking iconic you shit slurping faggot?

>>713943440
>>713943550
Vista hate originally spawned because there were a million ghetto printers, scanners, and other devices with dodgy old drivers. When Vista came out, drivers were required to be signed, and a lot of those chinese devices didn't ever get driver updates to support it. It left a lot of people in the lurch, and that spread to normie tech news sites like CNET. Normies latched on to the fervor, and declared that Vista would delete all your files and rape your children.

The reality: Vista was actually pretty solid, and brought in the GPU accelerated compositor, which made everything snappy. It was also the first solid 64-bit desktop Windows (as XP 64-bit was a clusterfuck of duplicated services and applications, among other stupid shit).

>>713942880
marketing stunt

>vista hate was a meme

>>713936515 (OP)
95-8 for shooters
xp-7 for everything else

>>713936515 (OP)
I mean my gaming moment peaked with CSS and TF2 back on WinXP with online friends but I don't specifically have a favorite time period. In modern times we can always go back and it's easier now than back then.
>Windows
XP peaked by soul but 7 peaked by accessibility. Both had classic theme so vaporwave is right there. Windows since 8 sucks ass so I went to Linux.

>>713936515 (OP)
You missed a few

Why did they ever change the windows logo past windows 7? It’s beautiful

>>713944073
You sure the fact that having 9 at the start of the version number wouldn't cause program combability issues?

>>713947106
The explanation by a majority is this. The Windows 9 codename is used for windows 9x systems like windows 95 and they didn’t want to break old applications

It was skipped because they loved Leisure Suit Larry.

>>713936515 (OP)
>no windows 2000
fake ass thread for dumbasses

>>713936515 (OP)
hmm

XP era was the 'happy times' of the internet...

>>713947605
While a lot of people ran it, it wasn't specifically made for home users. XP was the first consumer NT.

>>713947609
>went up the moment windows 8 came out
lmao

>>713947605
2000 was only used by a very select few who knew it worked just as good as XP at the time, and only after XP came out. Most people thought "it's just an office OS like NT, you can't use it for games", but it played most of them right up until about 2008 when they started needing XP SP3.

>>713936515 (OP)
> parents get me a computer for christmas as a kid
> somehow get one with fucking 2000 on it
I still have no idea how they managed to fuck up that badly

>>713943795
>it's literally a checkmark
>it's literally an apple
>it's literally 3 stripes
>it's literally a golden arch
If you know recognize even one of these then congratulations your subconscious understood what your brain is too retarded to compute.

>>713943928
Nice history revisionism
People went back to XP because vista was dogshit, and then jumped directly to 7

>>713948138
>ESL babble

>>713936515 (OP)
Windows 2000 is always ignored.

>>713942880
It would have been too strong for the normies.

>>713948007
You are so utterly inhuman you shun ultimate perfection and view it as a fuck up.

>>713948372
Ah it was the "trailer park" that set you off. Should've studied harder in school bruh.

>>713948482
nobody shunned XP though

>>713948387
Most people went from 98 directly to XP. 2000 wasn't meant to be used by the average schmuck and ME was a flop

>>713948606
>bruh
Stop talking like a nigger.

>>713936515 (OP)
Windows 7 was my golden era: Mass Effect, Skyrim, Max Payne 3, Assassin's Creed when it was good, Prototype, GTA4, Saints Row 3 and 4, Deus Ex, Dark Souls

>>713936515 (OP)
XP to 7, easy.

my favorite was when switched to linux in 2005

>>713936515 (OP)
Why does it skip 2000/ME?

94-2005

>>713949690
ME didn't really have an era, as nobody really adopted it, and 2000 wasn't meant for home users.

>>713937367
>simpler
>more iconic
This is contradictory. Logos are becoming so simplistic that they are bleeding into one another. Which is exactly why we are starting to see companies move away from this trend finally.

>>713942880
They have too many places in the codebase that check if the windows version is like "9x" (meaning 95 or 98) and they couldn't be bothered fixing all that

>>713949819
I was stuck on ME for years. Sometime it sucks being an early adopter.

>XP
Great
>Vista
Overly Hated
>7
The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be
>8
Complete shit
>10
Meh
>11
Worse than meh

I'm hoping steam OS can save us.

Watching Annoying Orange, Smosh and Fred when they first started making videos and playing old ass flash games on Windows 7 is some zoomer nostalgia uncs just wouldn't understand

>>713950035
>I'm hoping steam OS can save us.
We're basically already at a point where developers have to deliberately sabotage Linux compatibility otherwise it just werkz

>>713948482
Oh no I liked 2000 I'm just unclear how they went into a computer store in 2000, asked for a computer for a 12 year old, and left with some overloaded tower with 2 disk drives, a floppy drive, a top line processor, and windows 2000 professional. I still have the damn thing for playing older games, it's a beast.
For reference these are the parents who got me a wii with twilight princess after I asked for a ps2 with okami because "it's about a wolf, we thought they were the same game"

>>713950284
If LinuxCorp would loosen system requirements and not demand the 400lb weight minimum, it might take off.

>>713950419
I got special dispensation when I dropped down to 360. I had to write a letter to the CEO asking for permission but it's not that bad

>>713936515 (OP)
Win 95 to XP. And yes this includes Windows ME.

>>713953045
you wrote a letter to a gay ceo asking for permission to be gay lol

in windows 11 they just moved shit around and made it overall worse to use. i like some of the poorly documented windows key shortcuts though, that they've only just introduced like 4 years after windows 11 launched lmao.
the application taskbar progress bar sums up what a downgrade 11 is, and they've slightly attempted to make it better but it still sucks compared to decade old implementation. look my piccie, bottom is so much more clear. old really is good, new really is bad.

>>713954137
yeah but that was a few years earlier when i started using linux, this was a separate letter

>>713943928
Basically this. Another simple way to put it was that vista needed modern hardware at the time, and xp-era/legacy hardware wasn't cutting it.

People that bought a "Vista-capable" pc virtually had no problems. These Vista low-end e-machine pcs, to the real nice Dell XPS stations: they all handled Vista well. Genuinely another case of the shit just working. The ones that were mad and flocked back to xp did so with same the dated hardware they had before. Reasonably so. No one wants to accept this, but the jump to 11 is like Vista, and these poorfags are like the old xp fags.

>>713936515 (OP)
>Windows pre-95
This was not a thing, except for like reversi, minesweeper, solitaire etc.
Everything else you could just launch from DOS without needing windows

>>713936515 (OP)
Windows 7 realistically extends through 2014 -- in which case it's the best era.

>>713936515 (OP)
I mostly played multiplayer games from Vista to Windows 8; guild wars, WoW, Runescape, and Dota 2. Windows 10 was when I actually cared about the single player games more than multi. So Windows 10 personally.

>>713948606
The reply I made to this got deleted for some reason. I assume because I said the "N" word.

>>713955025
Some stuff like Sierra games and Maxis stuff benefitted from 640x480.

>>713936515 (OP)
Huh, Pre-95 was the prototypical modern era simplified icon. Did other tech companies have similarly simple logos representing what their company or product does back in ancient times?

>>713936515 (OP)
XP I guess.
>>713936960
When Microsoft started dropping support for Windows 7. 8, 10 and especially 11 are just unusable compared to even just a jank Linux install.
>>713937367
The simplification of logos is just making it more obvious that trademark mostly exists to enable corporate fraud by allowing corporations to steal the face of the thing that they have acquired and continue to market it under that brand, all while slashing maintenance and production costs.
The simpler the logo, the more fraudulent the company.
>>713943617
>Liquid ass trying to create nostalgia for aero
>>713950035
>SteamOS
Just install Arch or one of the Arch derivatives like Endeavor or Cachy. SteamOS is not some magic solution, it's just Arch with KDE.

>>713957130
It was usually something that could easily be represented on a splash screen. That's not actually the Windows 1.0-2.0 logo, as it never appeared on any packaging or ads or anything. It's a retro thing made recently. Picrel: a Windows 1.0 box.

>>713957130
I'm samefagging, but 3.1 was the first to introduce that logo. 3.0 didn't have one on the box or the splash screen, either.