I was expecting something like "I spent a month and half a million dollars in claude tokens and ported libreoffice to rust"

Entry level motherboards were $50 (meaning 40 on sale)

God, I'm SICK of this AI slop style. After ingesting terabytes of pirated books you'd expect a little bit more variety in it's writing.

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/

I know the real world experience I've had, thank you very much.

> Windows 7 still had some fundamental kernel quality issues.

No it didn't, it was solid as a rock.

> WDDM 1.1 wasn't mature to the point of providing a stable experience across the board and vendors were still adapting to the WDDM model;

Display drivers adapted by the time Vista SP2 was released, and 7 was a solid release from start without even needing a SP.

> kernel mode printer drivers were still common, both a stability and security knock for those older versions of Windows.

First time I've heard a printer driver crashing the system, are you sure you're not making it up? ( print queue hanging is annoying but it isn't a BSOD)

> So no, Windows 7 did not have "all of the stability" of Windows 10 or 11

Okay I give up, Windows 11 is the bestest release, Satya is the broest tech CEO and you're the number 1 fan boy

There's no point doing so. Folder mounts are possible in diskmgmt.msc, and on Linux partitions end up mounted in /mnt/crap (and removables in /media/crap :D) anyway.

Nice try but you won't deceive any attentive readers. Everything you've told in that paragraph was applicable to Windows 7, it had all the stability and none of the user hostility of later versions.

Great! We've progressed back to Windows XP of 22 years ago.