content: There was a time that we were happy that there was a new version.  Yeah, back in Windows ME days -- ME killed it for everyone. Beyond that? No. No, NO. Remember how shitty XP was? I do. I remember calling it Fisherprice XP. I remember wanting 2k so badly but the graphics drivers SUCKED. When they didn't, I didn't want to leave 2k. XP wasn't even "good" until SP2 and wasn't the holy water we saw it as until SP3. SP3 didn't bring anything, really, but SP 2 was fucking HATED because it enabled a firewall. This made huge waves back then. By the time Sp 3 came out the waters had died down and it saved us a billion individual patches. Windows Vista? Nope. Windows 7? Vist+Service Packs. Windows 8,8.1? Nope. Windows 10? Still nope. I'm only one it because I know good and well I'll be asked a billion question by dumbasses who clicked upgrade. I remember having to explain why Windows consumed so much memory to idiots who didn't. They never quite understood what pre-fetching was all about. Seriously though, the last happy jump was from Win95 -> 98 (excluding 98SE). That's it. The rest had issues. The problem is /v/technology has rose colored glasses on everything. Linux was shit then too. Jesus fucking getting X going wasn't fun, hoping it supported your graphics card wasn't fun, oh you wanted wireless? Only if you have one of these chipsets.... oh and good luck finding a card with those chipsets.. the manuf may change chipsets without telling you so you need this version. When Steam first came out I hated it. I mean it was fucking S-H-I-T. Now? If it wasn't on Steam then I hesitate. Your black screen outages, without more description, sound like a crashed video driver and recovery (usually takes less than a second). There was a point in time your entire computer stopped working and you needed to reboot. This is not the case anymore for quite some time. I remember IRQ's and the nightmares... jesus fuck I'm glad we have that all sorted out now. "Let's see, I won't be playing audio so I'll just turn that off so I can use my joystick". Joysticks... I remember those being a thing and a family member trying to argue that you can game just as good with a joystick as you can with a mouse. Computer history, in nearly every way I can think about, has been fucking shit for a long time. It's only recently have things smoothed out quite a lot. But no, the time you were happy was when you ran something that wasn't new. It was tested over SP's and patches.