Windows Vista's startup sound suddenly reappears in Windows 11's beta build, and no, it's not a joke
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Or PTSD.
I skipped XP entirely on account of its cartoonish interface, jumping direct to Vista when programs started dropping Win2K support.
You skipped, arguably, the best version of windows. I stayed on 98se as long as I could, until the custom black themes came out. They made it much less cartoony.
Here's one I used (screenshot from the interwebs):