I remember Windows 3.11 as pretty decent.

98!

Or download it in a bunch of other ways directly from Wikipedia.

I will switch to Gnome when it can handle multiple workspaces on multiple displays properly. The fact that I can’t have multiple independent workspaces for each display is a complete deal breaker for me.

Paying for an OS that phones home with incredible amounts of telemetry where you have to run adblock to get rid of the built in ads is just silly.

Microsoft was shit in the 90s and never stopped being shit.