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Does anyone who works on Windows read HN? I'm just wondering as I nearly only see negative comments about it (particularly about the user-hostile features such as advertising and so on), and I wonder how anyone who works on this thinks that it's a good idea.

It would kinda be OK if it was free... but it's not - it's expensive, IMO. I've had to buy Windows 11 for the last two PCs I built for friends, and Pro was £140. Crazy that you have to pay that and then be subjected to abuse.

I'd leave and use Linux if I could... but Cubase doesn't run on it and that's my bread and butter, so i'm stuck. And no, Wine or any Open Source DAWs are not the solution, sadly.

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2 years ago I refused to upgrade to Windows 11 solely because they removed the "Never combine" taskbar feature. Parts of GUI got slower for some reason, like an extra delay in opening the right click menu. They've added "Never combine" back in because the users protested, but I'm still punishing Microsoft by not upgrading.

It was of course possible to fix with 3rd party software, but I absolutely can't wrap my head around why they were so stubborn about it.

>> Does anyone who works on Windows read HN?

I do.

However, {#include https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950708}

140$ sounds like price for perpetual license that binds to your Microsoft account and can be transfered from pc to pc.

But you can buy legit oem licenses that cost something like 40$. You simply won't be able to move it to new pc, but usually it doesn't matter much.

People avoid them cause "surely if they are thus cheap they must be scam", but it's not. They simply have restriction of permanently binding to single hardware. But again, usually it's worth it anyway

Brandon Leblanc is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/brandonleblanc

I feel he sees the negative comments, but it's not a concern of his.

The people working on Windows are unlikely to be the people making any business decisions.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out a good chunk of the product negativity is from Windows devs themselves!

To me this Windows hate feels like a form of a group think. But I find myself on the sidelines on many other issues, too.

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