I actually skipped Windows 8. I had a laptop with Windows 7, but after hearing the reviews for Windows 8 I just waited for Windows 10 to come out before getting a new one.
Now I've got Windows 11, which is basically Windows trying to look like MacOS.
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)