I've used Windows and Windows Server before. I helped guys from MS debug an issue in the bowels of Windows at one point in my career.
But I can't really use Windows because of the type of work I do. It's a pain dealing with multiprocessing in Windows and Linux envirnoments to name a key sticking point.
While yourself and a few others have pointed out that this is mostly just Linux bashing, Framework isn't entirely without fault here. Some things I didn't mention on the article because it was already pretty long and boring, and also some issues I've had since.
In total, the issues I've had that I feel framework shares the bulk of responsibility for:
- parasitic battery drain of around 40% overnight (win/linux + exacerbated by your choice of expansion ports)
- the auto brightness
- still yet to be able to connect anything via bluetooh
- the speakers are terrible, think early nokia phone terrible
- the fn key placement
- when I put the laptop down on a surface with the screen open the screen will flex open to the point its facing the ceiling
- usbc expansion ports don't go all the way in. They're also very tight but I think that would loosen up over time
- the touchpad, while I haven't used it on windows, I would be suprised if it was better.
Overall, I like:
- keyboard
- 3:2 ratio
- 300 vs 800$ for 64gb ram
- being able to upgrade to a bigger hdd later on
So yeaaa it's not just Linux bashing and I did try to stick to the beaten path and installed the two different flavours they said would work.