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What are you doing with your machine that makes Windows 10 unusable? I've been on Windows 10 for years. I ran O&O ShutUp 10 a long time ago and haven't had any of the problems people are complaining about. I've had people complain about how they "shouldn't need to run Shutup 10" yeah ok valid point, but it's a weak one because I can make that point about anything on any other OS. It takes what - 10 seconds to run the application?

I'm an advanced power user. There are no pop-ups, no nagging to use Edge, no search feature hostility, no crashes, nothing. Not one day has gone by where I think "wow this OS sucks, why haven't they addressed this issue". I play PC games on it, browse, code, image editing, etc. all without a single hiccup. It's been completely stable and user-friendly. I'm genuinely curious what is it specifically that bothers people about this OS because it sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining and not anything authentic at this point.

I'm a software developer at a FAANG and I use a Windows machine. I listen to my Mac user colleagues complain every week: "my application crashed", "I need to reboot", "I'm forced to update see you in an hour", "I have to shut down so I can reset permissions for this app", etc. They roll their eyes when they notice I'm running Windows, but then endlessly complain about their mac systems. The cognitive dissonance is staggering.

This is my experience with Win 10 as well. In fact I dare say, Win 10 in the past 5 years is one of the best desktop OS's of all time. No crashes, perfect customizability to turn off things, fast and responsive.

However that said, I'm extremely worried about Win 11, and when I saw all the things they changed in the taskbar (no text labels, no option to never combine icons), the right click menu and so on, I was very disappointed. I did get the send to menu back with a thing and I know you can use winaerotweaker to get all the old stuff back, but a part of me wants to be on the native OS stuff whenever possible and not change core OS with third party apps. But I'm also worried about what they might further do in the future and in 5-10 years, incompatibility in programs/etc with Win 10 might make using it very bothersome so you have to update at some point.

You are exaggerating in an attempt to prove your point. Permissions _may_ require restarting the app once. Not weekly. MacOS major updates happen yearly, and minor every few months. Patches often don’t require restart. So that isn’t happening weekly either. Finally, “my application crashed” has absolutely nothing to do with MacOS and everything to do with the application. Nothing ever crashes for me except for Photoshop.

If you’re working for a FAANG you’re probably using a company device, which uses Windows Enterprise. Generally less ad-like, managed by GPO’s, etc. whereas home edition is going to have all these annoyances.

That said they can be tamed or disabled. My wife has a Windows 10 computer (home edition) and it doesn’t prompt her for anything - searches for files are all local, etc. Most of these annoyances are fixed by reading the options when you install the OS. The few that remain are a quick google search away.

I feel like people are over dramatizing this.

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