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What else would you expect from Microsoft? Last, I don't know, four releases of Windows were comically bad. This is when you no longer swear but just laugh in
by thriftwy 9y ago
What else would you expect from Microsoft?
Last, I don't know, four releases of Windows were comically bad. This is when you no longer swear but just laugh in amazement.
I would argue that from their last 6 releases (starting with Windows ME) they only had one success, that is, Windows XP, and even that one they had to rethink with SP2.
(Just bought my wife a Windows 10 laptop... Sigh...)
- orf 9y agoThe fact you brought your Wife a Windows 10 laptop and not a Ubuntu one kind of goes against the case that Windows is comically bad.
- snakeanus 9y agoI am unsure how this is the case, considering that he can trivially change the OS.
- michaelmrose 9y agoMaybe the wife values staying with what she is used to over quality and he values his relationship over being right? Especially since windows is a lot more of an acceptable choice when you have a free administrator on call to set it up, paper over any annoyances with whatever workarounds are available, and keep it running.
- orf 9y agoMy comment was merely trying to highlight that the operating systems he would perhaps hold in high regard are in fact the definition of comically bad for non-technical users. These users are the majority, and so it's a stretch to call an OS that has captured that market so entirely and completely comically bad. I would argue that it makes it the best.
- thriftwy 9y agoYou're like 10 years old with that. Ubuntu is pretty usable these days and Windows just isn't. Are you going to pretend Windows 8 made any sense? Windows 10 now has everything twice: It has half of apps with full-res and half with old and ugly stretched fonts. It has two control panels! One old and one new. It even has two browsers, both from Microsoft. It's like everything they ever blamed in Linux, but without even having good excuses. Come on.
- dis-sys 9y agotwo modes as well: windows mode which sucks, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux which actually works.
- michaelmrose 9y agoDo you really think popularity = quality? Markets are complicated and people are irrational By your definition Bach is terrible and boy bands are awesome.
- thriftwy 9y agoHa-ha, you're not getting anywhere. The fact that every laptop comes with Windows 10 proves that nobody cares anymore whether the produce is useful or not. "You can buy a laptop. Whatever you get, it's with Windows. It's not very good but that's what you're getting. Are you buying or not?" Come to think of it, Windows laptops are comically bad too by themselves. Wide screens that nobody asked for. Cheap plastic of casings. Unreasonable thickness. General ugliness.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The fact that every laptop comes with Windows 10 proves that nobody cares anymore whether the produce is useful or not. Chromebooks are laptops. They don't come with Windows 10. MacBooks are laptops. They don't come with Windows 10.
- thriftwy 9y agoGuess what? Outside of USA and Europe, chance of having either one in a shop is exceedingly small. I've not seen a single Chromebook in my life and Macs are exclusively for web programmers. So Windows 10 is what you get, one might call it BrezhnevOS or PutinOS.
- chungy 9y agoSystem76 sells Ubuntu laptops. If you bought a Windows one just because you are unaware of alternatives, do more research :)
- pjmlp 9y agoI bought an Asus 1215 B with GNU/Linux pre-installed for my travels, back when were new. If you care about GNU/Linux on laptops research properly who is selling them.
- thriftwy 9y agoI don't, because my idea was to buy a consumer device for a consumer person. Turns out, what gets sold is barely usable, due to OS mainly. I start to dig why chromebooks ever a thing. Because having nothing other than browser is better than having Windows.
- nvr219 9y agowin10 is great.