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I'll never understand how people are seemingly ok with ads from their OS.

by nol13 9y ago

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I'll never understand why so-called "hackers" will defend Microsoft and their products when Microsoft participated in the NSA PRISM program in secret. This was a program most of congress didn't even know about, but execs at MS knew. They were knowingly violating your right to privacy and knew the government was doing it. Microsoft are bad guys. I won't even go into what all they did in the 90's under Bill Gates (https://archive.fo/CJ4PV https://archive.fo/CJ4PV). Not only that, but Windows is a crap OS. Anytime anyone defends Windows it always comes down to program compatibility and not OS quality. Linux for me is more stable, performant, doesn't slow down after a few months of use, has better choice in file system, has actual package management, doesn't force me to reboot for updates, doesn't take 8 hours to install .NET framework after rebooting preventing me from doing work, has great container technology, the list could just go on. Windows isn't a good OS, it just has games and office and a few "professional" programs that most "hackers" don't ever touch. It's filesystem is crap, it's update policy is crap and should have been fixed millennia ago, svchost is always a problem, font rendering is still worse then any other OS, ads in the os, spyware in the OS, closed source so you can't even really hack on it, etc. But it's got games so that makes it the best OS for software development? Any one who thinks this has never given Linux a serious shot. After programing and setting up development environments with proper package management and having a sane command line, using Windows for development, especially in multiple languages is a huge chore that usually involves lots of breakage over time. On Linux things feel much more cohesive. Even Microsoft agrees that Linux is better for developers, seeing as they implemented a Linux sub-system right into their OS. They've admitted defeat. They aren't even going to try to fix windows. Microsoft doesn't even care about Windows. People on HN care more about Windows than MS does.

I'll never understand how people are seemingly ok with ads from their OS.

by nol13 9y ago

I'll never understand how people are seemingly ok with ads from their OS.

I'll never understand why so-called "hackers" will defend Microsoft and their products when Microsoft participated in the NSA PRISM program in secret. This was a program most of congress didn't even know about, but execs at MS knew. They were knowingly violating your right to privacy and knew the government was doing it. Microsoft are bad guys. I won't even go into what all they did in the 90's under Bill Gates (https://archive.fo/CJ4PV https://archive.fo/CJ4PV). Not only that, but Windows is a crap OS. Anytime anyone defends Windows it always comes down to program compatibility and not OS quality. Linux for me is more stable, performant, doesn't slow down after a few months of use, has better choice in file system, has actual package management, doesn't force me to reboot for updates, doesn't take 8 hours to install .NET framework after rebooting preventing me from doing work, has great container technology, the list could just go on. Windows isn't a good OS, it just has games and office and a few "professional" programs that most "hackers" don't ever touch. It's filesystem is crap, it's update policy is crap and should have been fixed millennia ago, svchost is always a problem, font rendering is still worse then any other OS, ads in the os, spyware in the OS, closed source so you can't even really hack on it, etc. But it's got games so that makes it the best OS for software development? Any one who thinks this has never given Linux a serious shot. After programing and setting up development environments with proper package management and having a sane command line, using Windows for development, especially in multiple languages is a huge chore that usually involves lots of breakage over time. On Linux things feel much more cohesive. Even Microsoft agrees that Linux is better for developers, seeing as they implemented a Linux sub-system right into their OS. They've admitted defeat. They aren't even going to try to fix windows. Microsoft doesn't even care about Windows. People on HN care more about Windows than MS does.