You joke, but upgrading from Windows For Workgroups to Windows 95 felt like entering the future. Its hardware discovery was years ahead of Linux. It was an amazing innovation, which IMO peaked with Windows 2000, and then commercial/political goals started dominating over technical goals.
I barely used windows for workgroups. but I did use windows from XP or 95 onwards. actually I used both. and yeah I remember a bit about the hardware discovery. it was called plug and play, iirc.
I remember reading how badly windows Vista turned out.
and then there was 8, which I didn't check out much, but remember reading it was somewhat of a flop, because they tried to make everything mobile oriented, even on desktops.
haven't used windows much since, except for 7, which was okay for me.
