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16 pointsrbanffy7 comments

Windows 7 was decent. I remember not being able to choose between windows 7 and linux because they were essentially on par in usability. nowadays setting up linux takes less time than it takes for me to set up windows 10 without all ads, candy crush (god knows why) and telemetry settings. Not to mention some settings get defaulted everytime you update windows.

My only gripe with linux is their terrible coherency in userspace. The command line is a mess of utilities and availability worse than your browser feature implementation. Everyday I come across a myriad of inconsistency that I dont want to be bothered to learn. a few examples of needless inconsistency is when you have temp and tmp folders, -h --help -help man and any combination of these. Then there's the online linux sphere, where arbitrary commands fail due to any difference in distribution/package-manager/default-configurations. At least deleting / works flawlessly.

I do understand why userspace in linux is a different beast but as a user-oriented operating system I cannot recommend it. Generally, people dont ever read instruction books ( or terms of service) and at most you can ask to comprehend everything on a single a4 paper. beyond that if its not their area of expertise theres no willingness to learn more than the absolute basics needed to get up and running. Solving most windows related problems already fail the a4 test which is why I get bothered by people because "you know computers"

Passing the a4 test is already next to impossible with how big the industry truly is. but maybe one day when linux drivers are assumed and every option is ubiquitous and translated.

Windows has become a complete piece of shit these days: almost nothing works well, there's ads built-in, security is just a big joke. I've taken to keeping my Windows machine for gaming only, network-isolated from Microsoft and re-imaged every 3-6 months.

They should consider employing someone to test the software before they ship it.

Why? Public outcry on social media does the job just as good.

Or write correct specs. How does one end up with a Windows.old directory?

It’s a thing, when you do a release update on Windows the old version ends up in windows.old to facilitate rollback and some time later it gets cleaned up.

"some time later" I could see a MS dev specifying that in a requirements document somewhere XD

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