“Did you like Windows 95 better or Windows 10?”

What a strange question!

If you mean today, then Win10, hands down.

Win95 was built for a different era, with different — simpler and much, much slower — standards.

For example, PCs in 1995 typically came with 4-8 MB (not GB!) of RAM, a single-core 66MHz (not GHz) CPU, dial-up Internet connections, CD-ROM programming, and graphics with 256 colors.

It would be incredibly frustrating to work with that kind of hardware today.

I don’t have a copy of Win95 handy, but I do have Win98. Here it is, fired up in a virtual machine running on my Win10 laptop.

But on the hardware of its day, Win95 was pretty good.

Flipping it around: Win10 would be horrible in 1995. There was nothing available to run it — not even close! Many of the standards in today’s off-the-shelf PCs — standards Win10 is built around — didn’t even exist in 1995!

So there’s really no good way to compare the two as to “likability.” Each is/was well-suited to its specific era and environment; neither would do well in the other’s.

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