• Why Windows XP was better than Windows 10

    From Anonymous Remailer (austria)@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 15 19:03:51 2021
    https://www.companionlink.com/blog/2020/06/why-windows-xp-was-better-than-windows-10/

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    Small Business Productivity, Tools and Tips – Android and iPhone Sync
    Why Windows XP was better than Windows 10
    Posted on June 18, 2020 by Wayland Bruns

    Windows XP was released in 2001 as the successor to Windows NT. It was
    the geeky server version that contrasted with the consumer oriented
    Windows 95, which transitioned to Windows Vista by 2003.

    Where Windows 95 was pioneering window transitions and soft look and
    feel, Windows XP was intended to be a more nuts-and-bolts interface.
    Less attention was spent on UI features and more attention on security
    and processing.

    In retrospect, the key feature of Windows XP is the simplicity. While
    it encapsulated the beginnings of User Access Control, advanced
    Network drivers and Plug-and-Play configuration, it never made a show
    of these features. The relatively simple UI was easy to learn and
    internally consistent.

    On the Windows 95 side, Microsoft spent years trying to make PCs user
    friendly, (Remember Microsoft Bob?) they have always failed in this
    endeavor. Instead of being simpler, they simply make UI controls that
    are harder to master; filmy and foamy layers on top of the simple core
    that is running the OS.

    No wonder so many people hold on to their old XP computers long after
    the OS is insecure.

    Windows 10 is a dog! There is no arguing that it is the worst OS
    experience ever created. Not only are there filmy and foamy layers,
    Microsoft is constantly updating it to force features that you do not
    even want. At least once a week we get a customer who reports their
    computer was completely bricked by a Windows 10 update. Windows 10 is
    a garbage heap mudslide. It is a costly time-wasting endeavor by
    Microsoft to try to establish that you somehow NEED to get updates
    every month for something other than the bug fixes required for the
    garbage they forced on you the prior month.

    Turn off One-Drive, for instance, and you’ll find that two updates
    later, it is turned on again. Turn off Cortana, which no one uses, and
    two updates later it is not only back on, but it is sucking up 30% of
    your CPU making your computer run slowly.

    With Windows XP, you could see in the system monitor that about 8
    processes were running and they used less than 1% of CPU and disk
    bandwidth. For windows 10, there are more than 200 processes and they
    commonly use 30-50% of your CPU and disk IO. Whenever I start drilling
    down on these processes I can see they are features I never want;
    Cortana, One Note, Xbox Game Bar, Your Phone, Groove Music.

    What Microsoft should do is run what their success. Offer a stripped-
    down simple OS. When people say I want Linux” they don’t actually mean
    the buggy hopelessly arcane OS created by Linus Torvalds. What they
    are saying is a simple basic UI and driver set that is fast, easy and
    stable.

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  • From Merle@invalid.com@21:1/5 to mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at on Thu Jul 15 12:16:55 2021
    On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:03:51 +0200 (CEST), "Anonymous Remailer
    (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:


    https://www.companionlink.com/blog/2020/06/why-windows-xp-was-better-than-windows-10/


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    I really, really looove this part:

    Turn off One-Drive, for instance, and you’ll find that two updates
    later, it is turned on again. Turn off Cortana, which no one uses, and
    two updates later it is not only back on, but it is sucking up 30% of
    your CPU making your computer run slowly.

    With Windows XP, you could see in the system monitor that about 8
    processes were running and they used less than 1% of CPU and disk
    bandwidth. For windows 10, there are more than 200 processes and they >commonly use 30-50% of your CPU and disk IO. Whenever I start drilling
    down on these processes I can see they are features I never want;

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at on Thu Jul 15 23:58:52 2021
    2K > XP > 10. ;)

    "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:

    https://www.companionlink.com/blog/2020/06/why-windows-xp-was-better-than-windows-10/

    CompanionLink Blog

    Small Business Productivity, Tools and Tips ? Android and iPhone Sync
    Why Windows XP was better than Windows 10
    Posted on June 18, 2020 by Wayland Bruns

    Windows XP was released in 2001 as the successor to Windows NT. It was
    the geeky server version that contrasted with the consumer oriented
    Windows 95, which transitioned to Windows Vista by 2003.

    Where Windows 95 was pioneering window transitions and soft look and
    feel, Windows XP was intended to be a more nuts-and-bolts interface.
    Less attention was spent on UI features and more attention on security
    and processing.

    In retrospect, the key feature of Windows XP is the simplicity. While
    it encapsulated the beginnings of User Access Control, advanced
    Network drivers and Plug-and-Play configuration, it never made a show
    of these features. The relatively simple UI was easy to learn and
    internally consistent.

    On the Windows 95 side, Microsoft spent years trying to make PCs user friendly, (Remember Microsoft Bob?) they have always failed in this
    endeavor. Instead of being simpler, they simply make UI controls that
    are harder to master; filmy and foamy layers on top of the simple core
    that is running the OS.

    No wonder so many people hold on to their old XP computers long after
    the OS is insecure.

    Windows 10 is a dog! There is no arguing that it is the worst OS
    experience ever created. Not only are there filmy and foamy layers,
    Microsoft is constantly updating it to force features that you do not
    even want. At least once a week we get a customer who reports their
    computer was completely bricked by a Windows 10 update. Windows 10 is
    a garbage heap mudslide. It is a costly time-wasting endeavor by
    Microsoft to try to establish that you somehow NEED to get updates
    every month for something other than the bug fixes required for the
    garbage they forced on you the prior month.

    Turn off One-Drive, for instance, and you?ll find that two updates
    later, it is turned on again. Turn off Cortana, which no one uses, and
    two updates later it is not only back on, but it is sucking up 30% of
    your CPU making your computer run slowly.

    With Windows XP, you could see in the system monitor that about 8
    processes were running and they used less than 1% of CPU and disk
    bandwidth. For windows 10, there are more than 200 processes and they commonly use 30-50% of your CPU and disk IO. Whenever I start drilling
    down on these processes I can see they are features I never want;
    Cortana, One Note, Xbox Game Bar, Your Phone, Groove Music.

    What Microsoft should do is run what their success. Offer a stripped-
    down simple OS. When people say I want Linux? they don?t actually mean
    the buggy hopelessly arcane OS created by Linus Torvalds. What they
    are saying is a simple basic UI and driver set that is fast, easy and
    stable.


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  • From Anonymous@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 6 09:12:46 2021
    Windows 10 is a dog! There is no arguing that it is the worst OS
    experience ever created. Not only are there filmy and foamy layers,
    Microsoft is constantly updating it to force features that you do not
    even want. At least once a week we get a customer who reports their
    computer was completely bricked by a Windows 10 update. Windows 10 is a
    garbage heap mudslide. It is a costly time-wasting endeavor by Microsoft
    to try to establish that you somehow NEED to get updates every month for something other than the bug fixes required for the garbage they forced
    on you the prior month.

    With Windows XP, you could see in the system monitor that about 8
    processes were running and they used less than 1% of CPU and disk
    bandwidth. For windows 10, there are more than 200 processes and they
    commonly use 30-50% of your CPU and disk IO. Whenever I start drilling
    down on these processes I can see they are features I never want;
    Cortana, One Note, Xbox Game Bar, Your Phone, Groove Music.

    No wonder so many people hold on to their old XP computers long after
    the OS is insecure.

    The "insecure" problem is easily solved with a freebie sandbox program.

    https://sandboxie-plus.com/Sandboxie/

    http://www.toolwiz.com/lead/toolwiz_time_freeze/
    (Time Freeze is much simpler to use than Sandboxie.)

    The entire article is here: https://www.companionlink.com/blog/2020/06/why-windows-xp-was-better-than-windows-10/

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