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      It peaked somewhere between 2000 and 7. Personally, I place it in XP, but opinions vary.

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        98SE, XP, and 7 each were relatively solid for their time. They all had issues, but were far better at being an OS than what we have now or are trying to be sold to constantly upgrade to.

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          React OS is awesome, and I need it to run stable on some metal.

          And also play WoW, because I don’t trust linux to run whatever copy-protection crap is on there and not brick my account through no fault of its own.

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      Has there ever been a good version of Windows? Old versions were functional but terribly insecure and newer versions are reasonably secure but cloud connected ad platforms.

      Windows 10 is probably the middle ground although the newer versions come with the same anti features Windows 11 has

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        Good question. I will say W7 because W10 necessitated an SSD to stay performant, so bloat and bullshit got rolled into W10