Who cares? You ought to be more worried about getting sued for not providing the services you claim to provide. Surf Shark DOES NOT PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY, NOR DOES IT HIDE YOUR LOCATION! 😡
what really ? I still had windows 7 a month ago and I recently upgraded t owindows 10 pro and its working just like windows 7 foe me I was fine with windiws 7 too but i had to upgrade since some games I play stoped runing on win 7
@@FunnyPeopleClips2002 i regretted upgrading because all my games in windows 7 runs perfectly and smoothly 60fps. But when i upgraded to Windows 10, it decreased to 30-10fps. It's because of Intel GMA integrated GPU, i should've never upgraded it and stick to Windows 7
@@tofuchaeng06 there is a way to downgrade if you actually got the win 10 installer on 7 then in windows settings there is a way to downgrade the only thing is no security updates unless you use something like malwarebytes or mcafee
Windows 7 is the GOAT, you didn't have to deal with privacy concerns because even as a Windows 10 users now, I had to go on youtube and turn off, block all privacy nonsense that were in the OS that they do not tell you about in which info is being sent to them. Windows 11 will be the real deal breaker, as they have announced a program called Recall that will be in Windows 11 soon, which will record ALL activities on your PC, which means conversations, app uses, browsers, what you upload, download, install, folders, data, etc, etc, and their reasoning? "So that you can retrieve previous data if you so wish..." Yes...that's why they're doing this. Man, I wished most things still ran on Win7, because I would love to go back to that, I miss that OS soo much, the BEST of all time.
the os i started was Windows 7 when i was a kid in elementary school and it's so nostalgic the startup sound the boot animation the aero everything is so nostalgic
I have started with XP and that was way better than 2000 or 98 , I like the colours so much + that start button gave me nostalgia everytime I think about it , currently I am using windows 7 and it's also running well.
After Windows 7 , everything is a depressing minimalistic atrocity that takes away character of any kind. Sorry but making me feel like I am working in a Corporate Cubicle 9 to 5 is just hellish, I want to create, design and innovate. Frutiger aero FTW!
My oldest experience was Win XP so I obviously have no clue about the older versions. but I think WIN XP and WIN 7 are the among the top best operating systems and the ones that really made Windows what it is today
15:12 couldn't agree more... windows 11 is disrespectful for number 11... also... the removal of (this PC) is really annoying (type into search on 10 [this pc] it will show all folders.. basically,.. it's not available on 11)
I grew up with Windows XP, and I loved it. In fact, on my current gaming laptop, I have my taskbar, start menu, and the windows reskinned to look like Windows XP, cause the look is truly stylish. Edit months later: I got a new PC, and I was able to do this again, and I got better at it overtime.
i have a windows xp pc i found in someone's dump with no wireless wifi chip, i dont know what i can do with it😭 i cleaned it up and it works well. i think it was used as an office pc cuz it had sooooo many restrictions
@@thomasseymour5025 I used three programs, two are for free, but one of them is a paid program. RetroBar for the taskbar, Open Shell for the start menu, and WindowBlinds for the window borders respectively. I even changed some settings in my PC, and my sounds to match up.
if we notice the pattern of bad then good 95 was the bad, 98 was the good ME was the bad, XP was the good Vista was the bad, 7 was the good 8 was the bad, 10 was the good with that in mind, does that mean 11 is the bad, and 12 will be the good?
Windows 7 was peak windows. Ever since they started cramming telemetry and shit in, it went straight down the shitter. Luckily there are tools to disable this which make windows 10 arguable better, but unmodified 7 is peak.
I'd place 98 on par with 2000 because the latter was better when it came to stability, but it lost on games which were mainly DOS-based (that's why many games worked better on 9x), as well as certain programs. Also 2000 was bundled with DirectX 7.
I prefer the colourful and more alive UI of windows 11 an file explorer tabs, but thats where windows 11's pros end. 7 was and will always be the best OS ever made
XP way my favorite. Windows 11 will not run on any of my 9 computers. I did the registry hack on one pc to install it and I have to agree with everything you said about it.
honestly 7 was the last good version of windows, everything after that was just bloated garbage filled with ads and telemetry, and just much harder to use with settings scattered all over the place. unironically, if you take a windows 7 iso and patch it to have things like modern drivers, despite some compatibility issues, it's a much better experience than 10 and 11.
You have a point. Simple, to the point. The look and feel of vista with the perfect functionality of xp. I mean COME ON how can 7 not be considered objectively the best
Windows 7 doesnt force you to update, use edge, or use copilot or whatever. It was a time period when companies didnt go “more money, less effort” on things like windows 8, 11 or 10. Its just a beautiful operating system.
Sadly doubt itll happen since companies like microsoft lean more towards putting in less effort into operating systems for more money, even the style dumbed down from a red, green blue yellow curved window on a blue circle to a blue square. Maybe thats just me, i cant get used to the style change of everything now, or who knows i can be right
Windows vista ain’t too bad, the only reason people say it’s bad is because of how high the system requirements at the time, compared to what could be used easily and affordably, windows vista and 7 are virtually the same thing, windows 7 is literally just an update to it. I don’t care about nostalgia, I’m looking at statistics, I’ve tried both (in a virtual machine since I’m not risking screwing up my into pc but I also couldn’t get the WiFi working on the VM for both), and they both are basically the same thing, windows 7 just had more compatibility, so I’d 7 goes high, vista also goes high, just not as high.
There was a windows ME 😢, yeah I started with XP too I loved it then. Vista had changes I like but had some glitches I was not a big fan tho but I respect the opinion of those who loved it.
Windows 7 belongs in S league, 8 & 8.1 wasn’t all that as you stated it was complicated but a new look, 10 carried a look that I loved and the security issues i didn’t have I understood my way around I didn’t see why they did 11 but may cause I’ve lost interest in going deep in the system to find out the changes.
My personal experience Windows 2 - The GUI was ground breaking at the time and a lot of fun. I had hours upon hours of fun on this. Windows 3.1 - I absolutely loved this. I thought it was the greatest OS ever! So clear, colourful, professional looking. Loved TrueType on MS Word 2. Windows 95 - Another groundbreaking OS. Loved the start button, Windows Explorer and being able to drag and drop. It did crash a lot though and I missed 3.1 like crazy. Windows 98 - I never really used this, but tried it and it was just like Windows 95 - except the title bar had a gradient and the clouds wallpaper swooshed. Windows ME - my first upgrade from Windows 95 - and it was visually stunning. I loved the menu animations and new icons. It still crashed a lot though just like 95, but I was used to this. Windows XP - what a breath of fresh air this was. It literally never crashed and was visually beautiful. I must have used this OS for 10 years and it remains my favourite even today. Windows Vista - the visual refresh was beautiful. This OS felt very advanced, but the security dialogues were annoying. I was so disappointed that the slide menu animation disappeared. Windows 7 - visually beautiful, just like Vista, but without the annoying security dialogues. I loved this OS and used it for a long time, but missed XP. I hated the new start menu. Windows 8 - I bought a 27" touchscreen monitor for this and it looked and felt amazing. I found that I never used the touchscreen though and eventually, the new style became irritating. Windows 8.1 - literally, Windows 8 but with a start menu and floating Windows over Metro. I welcomed a return to the older style. At this point, I missed 7 though and XP even more. Windows 10 - The new start menu was incredible ! I got comfortable with this OS quickly, even though I was aware of how evil it was - stealing all your data. The new icons looked bad. Windows 11 - worst version of Windows I've ever used. It feels clunky and dumbed down, the start menu is terrible and the evilness present in Windows 10 has been amplified.
I loved XP, 7 and sadly two years before it's death 8.1. I've a lot nostalgia with XP since I grew with it while in school we used 7 best times ever. And then there's a little nostalgia for Windows 10 since I got it in 2016, never really loved it like XP and 7 but now whenever I see the old Default wallpaper for 10 it gives me nostalgia. Used to be special for a short time to me. Great vid man.
@@burningpho3nix if a user is stupid, then security doesnt matter. it cant stop the user from doing stupid things. i was one of those stupid users, and, notably, the only viruses or any security issues i ever encountered was directly due to me being stupid. its why i consider the issue so overblown, and so unimportant. i couldnt care less about security.
Older windows, 7 and back, feel like machines for productivity, businesses, tools for the busy professional while newer Windows feel like toys for social media, gaming, buying, scrolling, etc.
guys, I started with windows XP, I don't have much memories of it (i was yoo young) but I remember playing a alladin game on it cuz that was the primary task I used that pc for :_). in all tbh I regret loosing that PC :(
Windows 12 will look better with the wallpapers if no tpm 2.0 and ads it would be 10000x better if the storage limit is 2 TeraBytes i would try to find a win 12 in my country and buy it
Windows XP was definitely one if you the best versions of windows, However Pre SP2 it did have some major security issues but it was stable,innovative,and reliable and very nostialgic for most and laid alot of the foundation of what versions of windows have today.
I used to play games on windows 7, I played minecraft, gta san andreas and roblox on it, I used it from 2007 untill 202, when I switched to windows 10 laptop, I now use Windows 11 and my old windows 7 is still on shelf, it's still working with a little bit of lag, but it's good when I was young
According to your refund policy, if there are special reasons or the connection or service cannot be provided, the fee can be refunded proportionally. I bought the product for two months, but I couldn't use it for more than a month. You didn't explain the risk in the advertisement and you haven't been able to repair my connection for more than a month I can't keep waiting! Waste my time and efficiency! I'm asking for a refund now! Otherwise, I will disclose your bad behavior on all websites.
Gotta Disagree with Windows ME rating, I use Windows ME on a Dell Dimension 4100 and it ran ME somewhat flawlessly, it was like vista where it depended on your system specs, like even 128mb of ram could barely run it but the dell we had came with 256mb and ran Windows ME decently especially with it's nVidia graphics card which gave awesome graphics
Fair point, you can take my Windows ME rating with a grain of salt since like I've said in the video - I didn't use it back then, just based my rating off reading other people's experience with it
It's the best since windows 7 I liked the 10 start menu, but 11 just made it better, yeah the recommended section is weird but it can be put to low by enabling more pins setting
Windows 2000 was completely different than windows 98. It was the first widely used windows that was based the NT architecture.Before that, windows was just a shell that ran on top of DOS.
Personally I don’t get the hate for windows 8. Yeah the start menu sucks because it’s not designed for desktop use but all you have to do is install classic shell and it fixes that issue. It literally takes less than 5 minutes and once you did that it was a faster and improved version of Windows 7. The explorer shell itself isn’t any different from 7s either and the added support for newer hardware and an overall faster lighter OS was a welcome improvement over 7 and with added features like an improved task manager file transfer dialog box and fast boot made it a nice update in my opinion. If it wasn’t for the start menu nobody would’ve had issues with 8. I think windows 10 was way WAY worse than 8 because the start menu was still trash it was far far slower because it was a highly unoptimized resource hog and not to mention the issues with telemetry and the lack of control with updates random restarts and Microsoft store apps automatically downloading even after being deleted plus them installing it on windows 7/8 pcs without permission during release. In my opinion windows 10 was a disaster and I’m glad we’ve moved on to 11 despite the unnecessarily high system requirements. But thats easy to get past.
XP and 7 is the best, but i disagree that vista is the worst it was stable like xp when i used it and also its ahead of its time with the aero interface and overall it was good for me. Vista deserves to be in the S tier in my opinion
I would give Windows 10 an S tier and also agree that our privacy have to be preserved. But after tweaking and disabling some stuff after installation it feels like confident S-tier OS. I just love this start menu with categories and small bricks. It's perfect. And for 11 is strong F tier for me because of shitty design of start menu, uncustomizable taskbar, integrated AI assistant, restrictions for UI customization and absolutely terrible context menu (which is a disaster that can be compared to windows 8 start menu). This is an F tier with no doubts.
I started in IBM PCs with MS-DOS, and CPM. The windows that I started with was 3.1, and upgraded everytime I got a new PC. Can total agree that the S & A Tiers are correct used all of these, but I would put 10 into A too. The blue screen of death was common on 95 and 98, until 2000 which in the two years I used it never crashed. XP, 7, and 10 have had very few crashes. Well I like many version, and I still have two PCs one with 98 and the other with XP - for some of those games that MS made obsolete. :(
I still kept my Lenovo laptop from 2009 with Windows 7 on it, in 2024 although had recently upgraded to Macbook Pro on 2022. I’m using iPad Pro 1st gen more and more after my company required it so I can had better work experience accessing my company file and work related stuff. Keeping this old laptop, although upgraded to the max of the mainboard ability with second handed CPU and RAM, upgraded it with new SSD and new battery. I can always rolled back to this trusty laptop, especially now while writing this in the middle of backing up my smartphone microSD that already shown its age, my samsung smartphone cant read it, my Macbook Pro cant accept the microSD, but my old Lenovo can read it and I can access all my photo, video and files since 2009. Backing it up manually by copying and paste every folder than one process of archiving 126GB using WinRAR, just because. 😊
Windows XP gave me the most blue screens in my life, it was a blue screen festival. Terrible experience. My personal favourites are Win98, Win2000, Win7 and Win10. I skipped Vista back then and waited for the next version which was 7. Windows 8.1 was ok but with a useless interface. I think that my worst experience was with XP and now with 11. They are trash, hands down the worst. For now i'm good with Fedora, Manjaro and Windows 10.
Tbh Microsoft hasn’t made a windows OS as amazing as Windows Vista in years like I mean, Windows, 10 and Windows 11, and Windows 7, and Windows XP are good, but not as good as Windows Vista
honestly, i think Windows 10 and 11 in my opinion (if you exclude 7) were some what close to Vista in a way but i can see how they weren't as good compared to vista so... i can respect that
Windows Vista was great. The issue came from people trying to run it on old and outdated hardware. There were also a lot of manufacturers that refused to update their drivers for printers, scanners, etc. because they thought they could get people to buy new hardware. If your computer was decent, it ran great. Windows 7 was actually a downgrade with all the bad changes to the UI they made.
I haven't used 11 yet, because my computer doesn't have the TPM chip so it's not supported even though everything else on the system is good enough. I understand you can get around that requirement but it requires hacks and I heard they keep trying to stop people from doing it with each new version. You also don't get automatic updates and being up to date with security patches is the only reason I have to be interested in 11. I also don't want to risk Tiny11 on my current system. I just bought a Mini PC online that comes with 11, so I guess I'll see for myself, but I'll probably have to immediately download stuff to fix the start menu/taskbar/shortcut menus/etc. If I actually find it decent I might do a full drive image and see if I can get Tiny11 running on my current system. 10 from what I've heard started out good, and was even marketed for its low system requirements and supposedly being good on older hardware, but every (forced)update since then has broken stuff and/or added bloat to the system. 11 Apparently is somewhat the same, as one of the first things a lot of people do is run debloater programs on a fresh install. I actually had ME on my first brand new computer(before that I used garage sale/flea market/thrift store finds). I thought it was mostly fine, but maybe I just didn't have much of a frame of reference. Thinking back I did have quite a few BSODs, and after a few years finding any hardware with compatible drivers was a bit of a nightmare. But I do remember it as the first windows OS that I used that had the hibernate feature, not sure if 2000 had it as I never used 2000. I was actually a little annoyed at the loss of the DOS basis as I had quite a few DOS abandonware games, and I think this was before DOSbox. XP and 7 were both great, not much to say. If I could use them forever I might consider it considering my alternatives are 10/11(won't even mention 8). I've also been trying out Linux, but after 2 decades on windows becoming quite advanced and learning how to customize things extensively and how to troubleshoot and be my own tech support, linux is more than a bit of an adjustment. I can muddle through some things, but other things I've tried to fix things has only made them worse a few times. Some things though work very well once you know how. I have mixed feelings on basically the solution to most problems seeming to involve opening a terminal and often requiring sudo. I've gotten /tons/ of permission errors, which required me to close down a gui program and relaunch it with sudo.
Please fix the connectivity issues with v5.01. Pages like Amazon, RUclips hesitate to open.. WHY? As soon as I disconnect from the VPN, the pages open normally. All PC's using the VPN behave the same. I should have known better.. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Spend a little more and get something more reliable!
@@Mr-wt3ufI am repeatedly having problems with SurfShark! Before doing anything online, I always go to Google and ask what my IP address is, to see if SurfShark is actually working and it's never hiding my IP address. I've tried every option that Surfshark's customer service has suggested, such as; changing the default protocol, changing the location, turned off battery-saving mode, made sure I didn't have any anti-virus software running. I also don't have any other VPNs or firewalls, so none of those could be causing the problems. But yet, Surfshark is NOT hiding my IP address or hiding my real location. THIS IS RIDICULOUS!! 😡😡😡
Vista was aesthetically pleasing but functionally a dumpsterfire. UAC needed to at least consider shutting up on occasion, and the little desktop gadgets contained a security exploit iirc. But my family had a top-of-the-line PC back in the day (my mom used to edit videos and make Flash content back then, and she's still a gamer even today) and that meant Vista had a clear runway to take flight from. Also, yes, UAC, I want this program to make changes to my computer. Stop asking.
when 2003-2008 I am using windows 98se windows me windows NT windows server 2000 pro windows serverr 2003 windows xp fastest boot os in year 2003-2008 is windows 2000 pro ... very fast boot because lots of bloatware such as accesories games and .net vb tools are not install in first boot.. but at that time windows xp is very best. all games . and all new hardware supported by xp and most manufacturer gives drivers to xp ( hardware = printer , cameras .. etc .. handheld cameras not like todays which present on top of screen of mobile or monitors )
I used windows 7 for a decade and then got the free upgrade to windows 10. (Built PC) I thought 10 was bad until I got a laptop with Windows 11 because NOTHING in my build was supported by "trusted platform module" motherboard or any of my legacy components and since I was going to be forced to upgrade the motherboard in addition to the CPU and GPU, I decided on the laptop. I'm still a little bitter about it but, I think I'm getting a Mac in the near future because of all these menu ads and updates 😂
@@SurfsharkAcademy I disagree. Windows 3 and 3.1 are vastly different from windows 1 and 2. The fact they all run on top of MS-DOS as do windows 95, 98 and ME is irrelevant. The way Windows 3 operates is far different than 1 or 2, and deserves to be rated on it's own merits. I just feel you were being a bit lazy in grouping 3 in with 1 and 2.
Windows Vista should be A Tier 10 and 11 both F- - Tier for only ONE reason, Updates (and additionally in 11 the wiping of users hard drives causing them to lose all their data)
XP was my first OS, loved it. Next was Windows 7, great also. Now on 10 which I'm happy with , but it's my last windows OS. Not going to 11's Spyware. Switching to Linux in 2025.
windows vista could be A tier, i used it on my lifetime when my main pcs arent that strong i have a 2005 laptop with intel centrino. i used vista too much and it was pretty usable just like windows 7, but vista i installed wasnt rtm. rtm version was worse than msdos but in sp2, it was just like windows 7. and that laptop with vista was just running super fast and wasnt having slow perfonmance. vista with sp2 is usable.
windows 2000 was business and yet you didnt include the other business versions. thats not fair to compare them considering they were written in ENTIRELY different codebases with almost no similarities.
İ am a Linux user and i loved Win7 and Win10 but Win11 was basically Win8. My old Laptop (Casper Nirvana Notebook 1.0) cannot handle very hard tasks on Win10 and i could not upgrade to Win11, but even if i could i wouldn't beacuse of the telemtry and stuff My laptop run 5/10X better with Linux and playing games like Hades is very smooth (Always 60Fps)
I don't think that Windows 11 deserves a B tier. You boot up your PC and you're going to find the pre-installed apps that you will never use, they just take some space in the storage. The worst part is the memory minimum requirement, what do you mean by 4 Gb ?! It's illogical in terms of that O.S, Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7, all of them have only one gigabytes of the RAM minimum requirement.
I still have my dell With XP still and my First OS was 98 but for most of life I used nothing but XP and 7! I only used vista A few times and vista wasn’t all that good tbh but my favourite Microsoft operating system has to be XP! Now I have a XP, 7 and 11 PC but my favourite is my dell from 2006 running XP
Which Windows version was your most favorite and least favorite?
Who cares? You ought to be more worried about getting sued for not providing the services you claim to provide. Surf Shark DOES NOT PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY, NOR DOES IT HIDE YOUR LOCATION! 😡
Win2000 pro was my fav
Xp😢❤ and 7
11 & 10 good, the others are not bad but I would say Windows 3 is bad as Windows 95 and others are much easier to use.
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I regretted updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10
what really ?
I still had windows 7 a month ago and I recently upgraded t owindows 10 pro and its working just like windows 7 foe me
I was fine with windiws 7 too but i had to upgrade since some games I play stoped runing on win 7
@@FunnyPeopleClips2002 i regretted upgrading because all my games in windows 7 runs perfectly and smoothly 60fps. But when i upgraded to Windows 10, it decreased to 30-10fps. It's because of Intel GMA integrated GPU, i should've never upgraded it and stick to Windows 7
@@tofuchaeng06 there is a way to downgrade if you actually got the win 10 installer on 7 then in windows settings there is a way to downgrade the only thing is no security updates unless you use something like malwarebytes or mcafee
windows 7 is for real men
Windows 7 is the GOAT, you didn't have to deal with privacy concerns because even as a Windows 10 users now, I had to go on youtube and turn off, block all privacy nonsense that were in the OS that they do not tell you about in which info is being sent to them. Windows 11 will be the real deal breaker, as they have announced a program called Recall that will be in Windows 11 soon, which will record ALL activities on your PC, which means conversations, app uses, browsers, what you upload, download, install, folders, data, etc, etc, and their reasoning? "So that you can retrieve previous data if you so wish..."
Yes...that's why they're doing this. Man, I wished most things still ran on Win7, because I would love to go back to that, I miss that OS soo much, the BEST of all time.
the os i started was Windows 7 when i was a kid in elementary school and it's so nostalgic the startup sound the boot animation the aero everything is so nostalgic
Same
Same here and I LOVE how the windows looks in 7!!!!!!
I have started with XP and that was way better than 2000 or 98 , I like the colours so much + that start button gave me nostalgia everytime I think about it , currently I am using windows 7 and it's also running well.
Yooo same my first windows experience was with XP too. I still have fond memories of it. Back when windows was... _simpler_
What about Windows 2, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1? 3.1 was a landmark version and introduced so many new features!
After Windows 7 , everything is a depressing minimalistic atrocity that takes away character of any kind. Sorry but making me feel like I am working in a Corporate Cubicle 9 to 5 is just hellish, I want to create, design and innovate. Frutiger aero FTW!
My oldest experience was Win XP so I obviously have no clue about the older versions. but I think WIN XP and WIN 7 are the among the top best operating systems and the ones that really made Windows what it is today
To be honest, Win 2000 was for server use mainly :)
Not server, but professional. You used Windows NT for servers back then.
The fact that Windows 7 at 7:35 had the latest Word haunts me.
Eww same
Power point: 2007
Word: 2007
And then the word from 2024 randomly comes in
For the windows 11 right click context menu, you can get the old one back with a command line if you look it up. Still a terrible change for sure.
regedit
Explorer Patcher
15:12 couldn't agree more... windows 11 is disrespectful for number 11... also... the removal of (this PC) is really annoying (type into search on 10 [this pc] it will show all folders.. basically,.. it's not available on 11)
For me, Folder Icon basically like This PC.
@@FinnManusia i always hated that... try (this pc) on 10 then compare it to that folder on 11
@@Scudmaster11 I only have Windows 10 sadly. Can't afford Windows 11.
Can't you enable or disable the This PC or Recycle Bin icons from the Control Panel in both Windows 11 and 10?
Edit: Yep, you can do that!
I grew up with Windows XP, and I loved it.
In fact, on my current gaming laptop, I have my taskbar, start menu, and the windows reskinned to look like Windows XP, cause the look is truly stylish.
Edit months later: I got a new PC, and I was able to do this again, and I got better at it overtime.
How did you do that? I’d love to do it also!
@@thomasseymour5025 I did this with RetroBar, Open Shell, WindowBlinds, changing and resizing the icons, among other things.
i have a windows xp pc i found in someone's dump with no wireless wifi chip, i dont know what i can do with it😭 i cleaned it up and it works well. i think it was used as an office pc cuz it had sooooo many restrictions
@@thomasseymour5025 I used three programs, two are for free, but one of them is a paid program. RetroBar for the taskbar, Open Shell for the start menu, and WindowBlinds for the window borders respectively. I even changed some settings in my PC, and my sounds to match up.
if we notice the pattern of bad then good
95 was the bad, 98 was the good
ME was the bad, XP was the good
Vista was the bad, 7 was the good
8 was the bad, 10 was the good
with that in mind, does that mean 11 is the bad, and 12 will be the good?
why 95 was the bad?
@@nmuxelcrack9597 its not that it was bad, its just compared to its predecessor, it wasnt that good
@@seplol okay i guess
Windows 7 was peak windows. Ever since they started cramming telemetry and shit in, it went straight down the shitter. Luckily there are tools to disable this which make windows 10 arguable better, but unmodified 7 is peak.
I'd place 98 on par with 2000 because the latter was better when it came to stability, but it lost on games which were mainly DOS-based (that's why many games worked better on 9x), as well as certain programs. Also 2000 was bundled with DirectX 7.
I prefer the colourful and more alive UI of windows 11 an file explorer tabs, but thats where windows 11's pros end. 7 was and will always be the best OS ever made
Stability of DOS based Windows OSes hugely depended how well made drivers hardware had. Some folks had good luck and some had bad (and a lot of BSODs)
XP way my favorite. Windows 11 will not run on any of my 9 computers. I did the registry hack on one pc to install it and I have to agree with everything you said about it.
There was pre-downloaded horse vids and I watched them all day at my windows 7 (Laptop still working)
I wacthed it after 9 years.... loved it
honestly 7 was the last good version of windows, everything after that was just bloated garbage filled with ads and telemetry, and just much harder to use with settings scattered all over the place. unironically, if you take a windows 7 iso and patch it to have things like modern drivers, despite some compatibility issues, it's a much better experience than 10 and 11.
7 was one of my favorites for sure
I agree, even though I have to work around compatibility issues, I love WIN 7 and refuse to change it.
Windows 7 better
You have a point. Simple, to the point. The look and feel of vista with the perfect functionality of xp. I mean COME ON how can 7 not be considered objectively the best
@@kaideneatstheearth7104therez no bloatware or AI stuff in 7.
Windows 7 doesnt force you to update, use edge, or use copilot or whatever. It was a time period when companies didnt go “more money, less effort” on things like windows 8, 11 or 10. Its just a beautiful operating system.
@@afcommunity11 you have a great point
Windows 10 is better than Windows 7
Nobody hates windows 7, everyone's favourite
We need the windows aero back
Preach!
Sadly doubt itll happen since companies like microsoft lean more towards putting in less effort into operating systems for more money, even the style dumbed down from a red, green blue yellow curved window on a blue circle to a blue square. Maybe thats just me, i cant get used to the style change of everything now, or who knows i can be right
Windows vista ain’t too bad, the only reason people say it’s bad is because of how high the system requirements at the time, compared to what could be used easily and affordably, windows vista and 7 are virtually the same thing, windows 7 is literally just an update to it. I don’t care about nostalgia, I’m looking at statistics, I’ve tried both (in a virtual machine since I’m not risking screwing up my into pc but I also couldn’t get the WiFi working on the VM for both), and they both are basically the same thing, windows 7 just had more compatibility, so I’d 7 goes high, vista also goes high, just not as high.
There was a windows ME 😢, yeah I started with XP too I loved it then. Vista had changes I like but had some glitches I was not a big fan tho but I respect the opinion of those who loved it.
Windows 7 belongs in S league, 8 & 8.1 wasn’t all that as you stated it was complicated but a new look, 10 carried a look that I loved and the security issues i didn’t have I understood my way around I didn’t see why they did 11 but may cause I’ve lost interest in going deep in the system to find out the changes.
I used to play on my dad’s old laptop a long time ago that had xp games, and xp. Good OS
My personal experience
Windows 2 - The GUI was ground breaking at the time and a lot of fun. I had hours upon hours of fun on this.
Windows 3.1 - I absolutely loved this. I thought it was the greatest OS ever! So clear, colourful, professional looking. Loved TrueType on MS Word 2.
Windows 95 - Another groundbreaking OS. Loved the start button, Windows Explorer and being able to drag and drop. It did crash a lot though and I missed 3.1 like crazy.
Windows 98 - I never really used this, but tried it and it was just like Windows 95 - except the title bar had a gradient and the clouds wallpaper swooshed.
Windows ME - my first upgrade from Windows 95 - and it was visually stunning. I loved the menu animations and new icons. It still crashed a lot though just like 95, but I was used to this.
Windows XP - what a breath of fresh air this was. It literally never crashed and was visually beautiful. I must have used this OS for 10 years and it remains my favourite even today.
Windows Vista - the visual refresh was beautiful. This OS felt very advanced, but the security dialogues were annoying. I was so disappointed that the slide menu animation disappeared.
Windows 7 - visually beautiful, just like Vista, but without the annoying security dialogues. I loved this OS and used it for a long time, but missed XP. I hated the new start menu.
Windows 8 - I bought a 27" touchscreen monitor for this and it looked and felt amazing. I found that I never used the touchscreen though and eventually, the new style became irritating.
Windows 8.1 - literally, Windows 8 but with a start menu and floating Windows over Metro. I welcomed a return to the older style. At this point, I missed 7 though and XP even more.
Windows 10 - The new start menu was incredible ! I got comfortable with this OS quickly, even though I was aware of how evil it was - stealing all your data. The new icons looked bad.
Windows 11 - worst version of Windows I've ever used. It feels clunky and dumbed down, the start menu is terrible and the evilness present in Windows 10 has been amplified.
An ultimate tier list should probably start with taking time to try out every version.
totally agreeing with that list, obviously im too young to know versions like 95 microsoft windows, but those which i know, yeah youre right
I am stuck with my windows 8 (money problems)updated to a 10 but thought windows 7 and XP were better time for a change 3:40
I loved XP, 7 and sadly two years before it's death 8.1.
I've a lot nostalgia with XP since I grew with it while in school we used 7 best times ever.
And then there's a little nostalgia for Windows 10 since I got it in 2016, never really loved it like XP and 7 but now whenever I see the old Default wallpaper for 10 it gives me nostalgia.
Used to be special for a short time to me.
Great vid man.
XP was a security nightmare
Exactly
not really? if you had any amount of common sense, there would never be any issues with viruses or security concerns.
@@matthewbarabas3052 devs should always develop assuming the user is stupid, so it was a giant security nightmare
@@burningpho3nix if a user is stupid, then security doesnt matter. it cant stop the user from doing stupid things. i was one of those stupid users, and, notably, the only viruses or any security issues i ever encountered was directly due to me being stupid.
its why i consider the issue so overblown, and so unimportant. i couldnt care less about security.
@@matthewbarabas3052 needing to explicitly escalate privileges by either sudo or a password prompt can hold people back, at least a bit.
Older windows, 7 and back, feel like machines for productivity, businesses, tools for the busy professional while newer Windows feel like toys for social media, gaming, buying, scrolling, etc.
I am a kid and I will be nostalgic for Windows 10, but never for Windows 11.
guys, I started with windows XP, I don't have much memories of it (i was yoo young) but I remember playing a alladin game on it cuz that was the primary task I used that pc for :_). in all tbh I regret loosing that PC :(
Nothing beats the startup sounds of Xp and 7😎
Windows 12 will look better with the wallpapers if no tpm 2.0 and ads it would be 10000x better if the storage limit is 2 TeraBytes i would try to find a win 12 in my country and buy it
My favorites are XP, 7 and 10 😊
Nice!
Windows XP was definitely one if you the best versions of windows, However Pre SP2 it did have some major security issues but it was stable,innovative,and reliable and very nostialgic for most and laid alot of the foundation of what versions of windows have today.
bro put windows 10 on b tier :(
I know win11 is just trash and he still put in on the same tier as win10
windows 10 is an instant S tier imo
We had I either Vista or 7 when I was younger. We still have a pc with Windows 7. The bootup sound is iconic and its a good OS
I used to play games on windows 7, I played minecraft, gta san andreas and roblox on it, I used it from 2007 untill 202, when I switched to windows 10 laptop, I now use Windows 11 and my old windows 7 is still on shelf, it's still working with a little bit of lag, but it's good when I was young
According to your refund policy, if there are special reasons or the connection or service cannot be provided, the fee can be refunded proportionally.
I bought the product for two months, but I couldn't use it for more than a month.
You didn't explain the risk in the advertisement and you haven't been able to repair my connection for more than a month
I can't keep waiting! Waste my time and efficiency! I'm asking for a refund now!
Otherwise, I will disclose your bad behavior on all websites.
File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau or your local consumer reporting agency. Paying for a service that does not work is considered fraud.
Gotta Disagree with Windows ME rating, I use Windows ME on a Dell Dimension 4100 and it ran ME somewhat flawlessly, it was like vista where it depended on your system specs, like even 128mb of ram could barely run it but the dell we had came with 256mb and ran Windows ME decently especially with it's nVidia graphics card which gave awesome graphics
Fair point, you can take my Windows ME rating with a grain of salt since like I've said in the video - I didn't use it back then, just based my rating off reading other people's experience with it
@@SurfsharkAcademy yeah i completely understand, plus i know a lot of friends who did hate it and straight up downgraded to windows 98
Windows 7 is literally the GOAT of operating systems (And Windows XP)
11's clean start menu is superior to any other Windows version really.
It's the best since windows 7
I liked the 10 start menu, but 11 just made it better, yeah the recommended section is weird but it can be put to low by enabling more pins setting
Imp, windows 7's is but if it had dark mode and transparency. I use StartAllBack on Windows 11 for that effect
14:42 I forgot this was a VPN channel💀
I can’t believe that’s the first versions of MAC (2000s) was in competition with the most unbeatable windows ever
You asked for it, you got it. The gold version of XP (so not XP SP1 and up), was insecure if you connected it to the Net.
A lot of the information is inaccurate but I still enjoyed the video nonetheless. Windows XP was hands down a legend. Same with 7 and 98.
Thanks for watching! I'd like to improve my videos, could you tell me where I made mistakes in the video in regards to information?
@SurfsharkAcademy windows 98 isnt NT based
Windows 2000 was completely different than windows 98. It was the first widely used windows that was based the NT architecture.Before that, windows was just a shell that ran on top of DOS.
Personally I don’t get the hate for windows 8. Yeah the start menu sucks because it’s not designed for desktop use but all you have to do is install classic shell and it fixes that issue. It literally takes less than 5 minutes and once you did that it was a faster and improved version of Windows 7. The explorer shell itself isn’t any different from 7s either and the added support for newer hardware and an overall faster lighter OS was a welcome improvement over 7 and with added features like an improved task manager file transfer dialog box and fast boot made it a nice update in my opinion. If it wasn’t for the start menu nobody would’ve had issues with 8. I think windows 10 was way WAY worse than 8 because the start menu was still trash it was far far slower because it was a highly unoptimized resource hog and not to mention the issues with telemetry and the lack of control with updates random restarts and Microsoft store apps automatically downloading even after being deleted plus them installing it on windows 7/8 pcs without permission during release. In my opinion windows 10 was a disaster and I’m glad we’ve moved on to 11 despite the unnecessarily high system requirements. But thats easy to get past.
10/11 are the best I’ve used. Vista and xp sent me to Mac OS in 2011/12. Just now coming back
XP and 7 is the best, but i disagree that vista is the worst it was stable like xp when i used it and also its ahead of its time with the aero interface and overall it was good for me. Vista deserves to be in the S tier in my opinion
I would give Windows 10 an S tier and also agree that our privacy have to be preserved. But after tweaking and disabling some stuff after installation it feels like confident S-tier OS. I just love this start menu with categories and small bricks. It's perfect.
And for 11 is strong F tier for me because of shitty design of start menu, uncustomizable taskbar, integrated AI assistant, restrictions for UI customization and absolutely terrible context menu (which is a disaster that can be compared to windows 8 start menu). This is an F tier with no doubts.
I started in IBM PCs with MS-DOS, and CPM. The windows that I started with was 3.1, and upgraded everytime I got a new PC. Can total agree that the S & A Tiers are correct used all of these, but I would put 10 into A too. The blue screen of death was common on 95 and 98, until 2000 which in the two years I used it never crashed. XP, 7, and 10 have had very few crashes. Well I like many version, and I still have two PCs one with 98 and the other with XP - for some of those games that MS made obsolete. :(
I still kept my Lenovo laptop from 2009 with Windows 7 on it, in 2024 although had recently upgraded to Macbook Pro on 2022.
I’m using iPad Pro 1st gen more and more after my company required it so I can had better work experience accessing my company file and work related stuff.
Keeping this old laptop, although upgraded to the max of the mainboard ability with second handed CPU and RAM, upgraded it with new SSD and new battery.
I can always rolled back to this trusty laptop, especially now while writing this in the middle of backing up my smartphone microSD that already shown its age, my samsung smartphone cant read it, my Macbook Pro cant accept the microSD, but my old Lenovo can read it and I can access all my photo, video and files since 2009.
Backing it up manually by copying and paste every folder than one process of archiving 126GB using WinRAR, just because. 😊
Windows XP gave me the most blue screens in my life, it was a blue screen festival. Terrible experience. My personal favourites are Win98, Win2000, Win7 and Win10. I skipped Vista back then and waited for the next version which was 7. Windows 8.1 was ok but with a useless interface. I think that my worst experience was with XP and now with 11. They are trash, hands down the worst. For now i'm good with Fedora, Manjaro and Windows 10.
The best is Tiny 7 a hacked-up win7 only 1.5G in size runs perfectly.
I used XP as my first OS. And I also used Vista and don't think that Vista is that bad.
As iconic as XP is I’ve heard it was very unsafe when it came to viruses
Windows XP. Here in Chile, XP was synonymous with computers. For years and years, you could find XP in internet cafes.
Gotta say windows xp is my favorite, it could run so many games that the newer windows have problem running
Tbh Microsoft hasn’t made a windows OS as amazing as Windows Vista in years like I mean, Windows, 10 and Windows 11, and Windows 7, and Windows XP are good, but not as good as Windows Vista
honestly, i think Windows 10 and 11 in my opinion (if you exclude 7) were some what close to Vista in a way but i can see how they weren't as good compared to vista so... i can respect that
8:41 I am 10 years old boy and I have a nostalgia in windows 7 and Vista in 2024 😂
I still miss the Windows Aero interface in modern versions of Windows.
The Harmony wallpaper was amazing too. Where did these things go lol
god i miss windows 7 i can only download so many things to recreate how awesome it looked
3:39 Win98 was not NT based and was entirely based on DOS.
I really liked windows 8.1 (and my windows phones ) and it’s still my favourite os
watching this vid on xp laptop with mint and win 10 dualbooted
8:16 that sounds so wrong but I have nostalgia for windows vista and 7 so...
Windows Vista was great. The issue came from people trying to run it on old and outdated hardware. There were also a lot of manufacturers that refused to update their drivers for printers, scanners, etc. because they thought they could get people to buy new hardware. If your computer was decent, it ran great. Windows 7 was actually a downgrade with all the bad changes to the UI they made.
Used all of them 3.1 98SE. XP 2000 are the goats.
2024 I: Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate forever ...
I haven't used 11 yet, because my computer doesn't have the TPM chip so it's not supported even though everything else on the system is good enough. I understand you can get around that requirement but it requires hacks and I heard they keep trying to stop people from doing it with each new version. You also don't get automatic updates and being up to date with security patches is the only reason I have to be interested in 11. I also don't want to risk Tiny11 on my current system. I just bought a Mini PC online that comes with 11, so I guess I'll see for myself, but I'll probably have to immediately download stuff to fix the start menu/taskbar/shortcut menus/etc. If I actually find it decent I might do a full drive image and see if I can get Tiny11 running on my current system.
10 from what I've heard started out good, and was even marketed for its low system requirements and supposedly being good on older hardware, but every (forced)update since then has broken stuff and/or added bloat to the system. 11 Apparently is somewhat the same, as one of the first things a lot of people do is run debloater programs on a fresh install.
I actually had ME on my first brand new computer(before that I used garage sale/flea market/thrift store finds). I thought it was mostly fine, but maybe I just didn't have much of a frame of reference. Thinking back I did have quite a few BSODs, and after a few years finding any hardware with compatible drivers was a bit of a nightmare. But I do remember it as the first windows OS that I used that had the hibernate feature, not sure if 2000 had it as I never used 2000. I was actually a little annoyed at the loss of the DOS basis as I had quite a few DOS abandonware games, and I think this was before DOSbox.
XP and 7 were both great, not much to say. If I could use them forever I might consider it considering my alternatives are 10/11(won't even mention 8).
I've also been trying out Linux, but after 2 decades on windows becoming quite advanced and learning how to customize things extensively and how to troubleshoot and be my own tech support, linux is more than a bit of an adjustment. I can muddle through some things, but other things I've tried to fix things has only made them worse a few times. Some things though work very well once you know how. I have mixed feelings on basically the solution to most problems seeming to involve opening a terminal and often requiring sudo. I've gotten /tons/ of permission errors, which required me to close down a gui program and relaunch it with sudo.
Please fix the connectivity issues with v5.01. Pages like Amazon, RUclips hesitate to open.. WHY? As soon as I disconnect from the VPN, the pages open normally. All PC's using the VPN behave the same. I should have known better.. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. Spend a little more and get something more reliable!
don't waste your time. Just go elsewhere. I come here from time to time to see if they have fixed their issues, but I see they haven't.
If it's not something it's something else with Surfshark 🤦♂
@@Mr-wt3ufI am repeatedly having problems with SurfShark! Before doing anything online, I always go to Google and ask what my IP address is, to see if SurfShark is actually working and it's never hiding my IP address. I've tried every option that Surfshark's customer service has suggested, such as; changing the default protocol, changing the location, turned off battery-saving mode, made sure I didn't have any anti-virus software running. I also don't have any other VPNs or firewalls, so none of those could be causing the problems. But yet, Surfshark is NOT hiding my IP address or hiding my real location. THIS IS RIDICULOUS!! 😡😡😡
Vista was aesthetically pleasing but functionally a dumpsterfire. UAC needed to at least consider shutting up on occasion, and the little desktop gadgets contained a security exploit iirc. But my family had a top-of-the-line PC back in the day (my mom used to edit videos and make Flash content back then, and she's still a gamer even today) and that meant Vista had a clear runway to take flight from. Also, yes, UAC, I want this program to make changes to my computer. Stop asking.
That’s why windows 7 was the refurbished Vista and hands down, better.
Why put Windows 8 on F? Maybe you should've put on C. I was bad but it with third-party programs, it solves the issue.
because windows 8 was just not good on any computers which is why 8.1 is just a better upgrade imo since it was more computer friendly
why does EVERYONE hate the UWP rightclick context menu in win 11???
It's not the UWP but rather missing options (no task manager, no drag and drop and no moving Taskbar)
@@ObjectPresents maybe
not me
Windows XP meant to me was Xpect Problems.
Unable to connect, ask for a refund to find a bunch of reasons, have deleted the account, is a scam product
Make sure you file a complaint with the better Business bureau to warn other consumers.. 😡
Where whould you put 4 5 and 6
I am using Lenovo G560 and I love windows 7 the most
when 2003-2008
I am using windows 98se
windows me
windows NT
windows server 2000 pro
windows serverr 2003
windows xp
fastest boot os in year 2003-2008 is windows 2000 pro ... very fast boot
because lots of bloatware such as accesories games and .net vb tools are not install in first boot..
but at that time windows xp is very best. all games . and all new hardware supported by xp and most manufacturer gives drivers to xp ( hardware = printer , cameras .. etc .. handheld cameras not like todays which present on top of screen of mobile or monitors )
I used windows 7 for a decade and then got the free upgrade to windows 10. (Built PC)
I thought 10 was bad until I got a laptop with Windows 11 because NOTHING in my build was supported by "trusted platform module" motherboard or any of my legacy components and since I was going to be forced to upgrade the motherboard in addition to the CPU and GPU, I decided on the laptop. I'm still a little bitter about it but, I think I'm getting a Mac in the near future because of all these menu ads and updates 😂
Windows 7 🗿 🍹
love windows 7
cant drink alcohol while being under 18, replace the wine emoji with grape juice emoji
@@XboxAngryBirdsMinecraft what about now?
@@XboxAngryBirdsMinecraft i'm muslim i don't drink alcohol i just put the emoji for show 😂😂😂
@@sa2007-m7h welp that fits i guess
You completely forgot Windows 3 / 3.1
I bundled them together with 1.0 since they were arguably very similar in many aspects, but my rating wouldn't matter much since I didn't use it :(
@@SurfsharkAcademy I disagree. Windows 3 and 3.1 are vastly different from windows 1 and 2. The fact they all run on top of MS-DOS as do windows 95, 98 and ME is irrelevant. The way Windows 3 operates is far different than 1 or 2, and deserves to be rated on it's own merits. I just feel you were being a bit lazy in grouping 3 in with 1 and 2.
Live chat not working surfshark need help
What they need is to be sued because surfshark is nothing but a hoax
Windows Vista should be A Tier
10 and 11 both F- - Tier for only ONE reason, Updates (and additionally in 11 the wiping of users hard drives causing them to lose all their data)
XP was my first OS, loved it. Next was Windows 7, great also. Now on
10 which I'm happy with , but it's my last windows OS. Not going to 11's
Spyware. Switching to Linux in 2025.
10 A, 11 F, nothing on S, that's reserved for Linux
I can totally relate my family had a gateway with windows 98.
windows vista could be A tier, i used it on my lifetime when my main pcs arent that strong i have a 2005 laptop with intel centrino. i used vista too much and it was pretty usable just like windows 7, but vista i installed wasnt rtm. rtm version was worse than msdos but in sp2, it was just like windows 7. and that laptop with vista was just running super fast and wasnt having slow perfonmance. vista with sp2 is usable.
windows 2000 was business and yet you didnt include the other business versions. thats not fair to compare them considering they were written in ENTIRELY different codebases with almost no similarities.
İ am a Linux user and i loved Win7 and Win10 but Win11 was basically Win8. My old Laptop (Casper Nirvana Notebook 1.0) cannot handle very hard tasks on Win10 and i could not upgrade to Win11, but even if i could i wouldn't beacuse of the telemtry and stuff
My laptop run 5/10X better with Linux and playing games like Hades is very smooth (Always 60Fps)
Bruh why Win 10 same rank as Win 8? At lease give him A grade.
I don't think that Windows 11 deserves a B tier.
You boot up your PC and you're going to find the pre-installed apps that you will never use, they just take some space in the storage.
The worst part is the memory minimum requirement, what do you mean by 4 Gb ?! It's illogical in terms of that O.S, Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7, all of them have only one gigabytes of the RAM minimum requirement.
I still have my dell With XP still and my First OS was 98 but for most of life I used nothing but XP and 7! I only used vista A few times and vista wasn’t all that good tbh but my favourite Microsoft operating system has to be XP! Now I have a XP, 7 and 11 PC but my favourite is my dell from 2006 running XP
My top 3 are 7, XP and 2000
On Windows 10 I never had the blue screen of death
YASSSSSSSSS Its Me Windows 98 Bet I am Good 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Nah windows 12 is better