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Software is software, even Linux updates break things. Nothing is perfect. Let's be honest though, as an avid windows user i'm thrilled with all these quarterly

Software is software, even Linux updates break things. Nothing is perfect. Let's be honest though, as an avid windows user i'm thrilled with all these quarterly updates, fixes, new features and functionality add. It sucked when service packs were years apart and nothing changed and you needed new OS's to use new functionality. Now with a free update we have the linux subsystem, have docker support, Hyper-V updates, improved notification center, dark mode, improved store with books, edge PDF/epub reading is absolutely amazing (and it works with remote syn /page read updates on ios & android!), PowerShell improvements, timeline support across devices and if you use android you get SMS integration, image backup/sync and shortly remote android display on your desktop and many fixes/improvements/refinements It's never been a better experience to be a windows user.. Everyone updates their iPhone and Android - and deals with the inevitable quirks of that upgrade and they move on. But with windows... I believe most of the people experiencing missing docs enabled storage sense integration where if you're low on disk space it moves your docs to onedrive - it prompts you to enable this... others are people with non standard configs that probably break in every update anyway and you're told not to do.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
> Software is software, even Linux updates break things. Nothing is perfect. I don't believe I said otherwise. > Let's be honest though, as an avid windows user i'm thrilled with all these quarterly updates, fixes, new features and functionality add. It sucked when service packs were years apart and nothing changed and you needed new OS's to use new functionality. Great for you I guess. Like many people who have to do a job with computers though, I prefer to have things stable and known and consistent for long periods of time. Windows used to be really good at this, and now it is really, really, crap at it. > Now with a free update we have the linux subsystem, have docker support, Hyper-V updates, improved notification center, dark mode, improved store with books, edge PDF/epub reading is absolutely amazing (and it works with remote syn /page read updates on ios & android!), PowerShell improvements, timeline support across devices and if you use android you get SMS integration, image backup/sync and shortly remote android display on your desktop and many fixes/improvements/refinements Only about two of these things aren't just new versions of applications that could have been completely separate from the OS. Dark Mode is an especially telling thing to be excited about, you used to just be able to change your theme to any colors you wanted and it'd work for everything that used Win32 widgets, but then everyone started building their native GUIs on web-like garbage heaps, including Microsoft, so now everything is inconsistent and awful and it takes an OS update to change some colors. This is not progress. > It's never been a better experience to be a windows user.. I could not possibly disagree more. And I feel like your disagreement comes from inexperience with past versions of Windows.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago

> Software is software, even Linux updates break things. Nothing is perfect. I don't believe I said otherwise. > Let's be honest though, as an avid windows user i'm thrilled with all these quarterly updates, fixes, new features and functionality add. It sucked when service packs were years apart and nothing changed and you needed new OS's to use new functionality. Great for you I guess. Like many people who have to do a job with computers though, I prefer to have things stable and known and consistent for long periods of time. Windows used to be really good at this, and now it is really, really, crap at it. > Now with a free update we have the linux subsystem, have docker support, Hyper-V updates, improved notification center, dark mode, improved store with books, edge PDF/epub reading is absolutely amazing (and it works with remote syn /page read updates on ios & android!), PowerShell improvements, timeline support across devices and if you use android you get SMS integration, image backup/sync and shortly remote android display on your desktop and many fixes/improvements/refinements Only about two of these things aren't just new versions of applications that could have been completely separate from the OS. Dark Mode is an especially telling thing to be excited about, you used to just be able to change your theme to any colors you wanted and it'd work for everything that used Win32 widgets, but then everyone started building their native GUIs on web-like garbage heaps, including Microsoft, so now everything is inconsistent and awful and it takes an OS update to change some colors. This is not progress. > It's never been a better experience to be a windows user.. I could not possibly disagree more. And I feel like your disagreement comes from inexperience with past versions of Windows.