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You're missing the point about criticism of Windows 10. Almost nobody could claim that it's a bad OS from a technical standpoint, though there are certainly si
by leadingthenet 10y ago
You're missing the point about criticism of Windows 10.
Almost nobody could claim that it's a bad OS from a technical standpoint, though there are certainly significant improvements to be made. The real issue is lack of any semblance of privacy, user unfriendliness, and frankly the closed-down nature of it is never going to do it any favours.
In my view, apart from gaming, it has nothing going for it.
- fauigerzigerk 10y ago>In my view, apart from gaming, it has nothing going for it. What Windows has going for it is that it supports a lot of different desktop/laptop hardware very well. macOS doesn't support a lot of hardware. Linux supports a lot of hardware but much of it not very well. If I list my desired specs for a laptop or desktop and then go ahead and buy the one that best meets my criteria, chances are pretty high that Windows will run best on it. I have been a Mac user for many years. I'm using a Mac mini right now. But if I had to replace it today I wouldn't know what to replace it with.
- silky 10y ago> What Windows has going for it is that it supports a lot of different desktop/laptop hardware very well. I don't think that's the case. It's not that Windows itself supports more hardware, but the fact that drivers for said hardware are built only for Windows. It could even be seen as a vicious cicle: 1) HW manufacturers create drivers for Windows because It's more popular; 2) Users use Windows because "It Just Works (TM)" and so userbase grows; 3) goto 1 > Linux supports a lot of hardware but much of it not very well. Hence I think Linux supports more HW but driver support isn't as good. I get what you're saying though.
- digi_owl 10y agoA lot of the crap in Linux hardware support comes borked hardware that under Windows is papered over by the OEM drivers. Damn it, Foxconn managed to ship a desktop motherboard that would produce junk ACPI data unless the OS identified itself as Windows on boot.
- wazanator 10y agoThere are other issues as well that to people who know how to use Linux are not issues. Take running a program for example, on Windows telling a user they need to open CMD and run a batch file to get a program to execute is insane. Yet that's fairly common even with modern Linux software. For Linux to compete with Windows realistically for average computer users it needs to have a distro that is like macOS in that it's idiot proof. I should be able to sit someone down in front of a computer running it with no instructions and the OS should do the teaching without telling them to open a terminal and look at man pages.
- remir 10y agoI agree with you, but I don't think GNU/Linux can compete with Windows at that point. The things you wrote about should have been implemented in most distro years ago. If you speak about this in /r/linux, the people there will tell you that "if people are not willing to learn how to use the terminal to install apps, then they're just lazy/too stupid". This is the kind of mentality we're dealing with and that's why there's 288 ditros without any chance of mass adoption.