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Anecdotally, I've used every Windows release since 3.1 and Windows 10 is pretty much on par with Windows 7/8. I don't have updates that fail, I don't have stor

Anecdotally, I've used every Windows release since 3.1 and Windows 10 is pretty much on par with Windows 7/8. I don't have updates that fail, I don't have store apps crash (not that I use them) and generally think the polish is on par with most Windows releases over the years - which is to say, it's .. meh. I didn't even have a problem with Windows 8, because like most professionals, I don't live in the start menu, don't use touch apps and generally use Windows to just get shit done which means most of my time is spent within the application (which is what an OS should do right?) I do think that if I switched to Linux for "a few weeks" I'd have the exact same reaction as a Linux user switching to Windows. In fact, this is how I've used Linux for the last 15 years and pretty much every experience since 2000 has been just that "it's nice but lacking polish". Everyone has their own favorite flavor of OS, Windows 10 is no better or worse than previous releases.

mands 11y ago
That's absolutely true. I've gone back and forth between Linux and Windows over the past 10 years or so - using Linux at work and Windows for casual/office/music production. I used Windows 8.1 for my last job and it was a nice experience overall. Although the latest Fedora 23 is perhaps the most polished version yet ;)
- ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
  Though its funny-at least in the Bay Area (I know I know, we're in our own little world here, etc) Windows has a very minimal mindshare amongst devs (except for having to use it for work).
baldfat 11y ago
I think it has 100% to do with what is your purpose. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my OpenSUSE desktops. I have a tiled window manager with means zero menus. Everything is shortcut keys (The way I use Windows 8). Windows PowerShell and CMD are catching up SLOWLY but I love my rxvt-unicode terminal. I love using Ranger (Comand line file manager) and VIM works perfectly. People need to stop seeing Fedora as anything but a test bed for Red Hat and use another distro. Fedora is always unpolished and has a ton of hiccups. (My own biased opinion) Windows at work stinks (I use 2 desktop computers that are Linux) one laptop Windows 7 and one desktop Windows 8. I have issues with updates on both windows machines and they are a PAIN to fix. It gets permissions wrong all the time and I can actually be locked out of removing icons from my desktops let alone the horrible exchange server. So I got permission to use Linux since I get things done much fast on it. Also the email gets blocked due to spam from all the stupid stuff my co-workers do. My personal computer at home has not been able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and my 8.0 won't install more updates. (Wife HATES Tiled Window Managers and hates when she has to switch between Windows 7 or Windows 8 or KDE). My memory gets used up all the time and I can't htop in command line and kill apps. I have to three finger salute and wait for the graphical interface to kick in. Hangs and is sluggish at random times. Still prefer Windows to OS X just for sane OS grammar sake.
- vetinari 11y ago
  Actually, out of the box, the last few Fedora releases (22, 23) are way more polished than RHEL 7. It does not change the fact that they are testbeds, but the Gnome 3 did really wonders.
  - baldfat 11y ago
    Might just give a VM a test. I still can't find a better balanced distro for Linux in terms of stability and packages. Zypper package manager is best in class and the build.opensuse.org is lightyears ahead of ppa.

mands 11y ago

That's absolutely true. I've gone back and forth between Linux and Windows over the past 10 years or so - using Linux at work and Windows for casual/office/music production. I used Windows 8.1 for my last job and it was a nice experience overall. Although the latest Fedora 23 is perhaps the most polished version yet ;)

ZanyProgrammer 11y ago
Though its funny-at least in the Bay Area (I know I know, we're in our own little world here, etc) Windows has a very minimal mindshare amongst devs (except for having to use it for work).

baldfat 11y ago

I think it has 100% to do with what is your purpose. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my OpenSUSE desktops. I have a tiled window manager with means zero menus. Everything is shortcut keys (The way I use Windows 8). Windows PowerShell and CMD are catching up SLOWLY but I love my rxvt-unicode terminal. I love using Ranger (Comand line file manager) and VIM works perfectly. People need to stop seeing Fedora as anything but a test bed for Red Hat and use another distro. Fedora is always unpolished and has a ton of hiccups. (My own biased opinion) Windows at work stinks (I use 2 desktop computers that are Linux) one laptop Windows 7 and one desktop Windows 8. I have issues with updates on both windows machines and they are a PAIN to fix. It gets permissions wrong all the time and I can actually be locked out of removing icons from my desktops let alone the horrible exchange server. So I got permission to use Linux since I get things done much fast on it. Also the email gets blocked due to spam from all the stupid stuff my co-workers do. My personal computer at home has not been able to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and my 8.0 won't install more updates. (Wife HATES Tiled Window Managers and hates when she has to switch between Windows 7 or Windows 8 or KDE). My memory gets used up all the time and I can't htop in command line and kill apps. I have to three finger salute and wait for the graphical interface to kick in. Hangs and is sluggish at random times. Still prefer Windows to OS X just for sane OS grammar sake.

vetinari 11y ago
Actually, out of the box, the last few Fedora releases (22, 23) are way more polished than RHEL 7. It does not change the fact that they are testbeds, but the Gnome 3 did really wonders.
- baldfat 11y ago
  Might just give a VM a test. I still can't find a better balanced distro for Linux in terms of stability and packages. Zypper package manager is best in class and the build.opensuse.org is lightyears ahead of ppa.