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I’m on Windows 10 Professional and I’m very happy with the control it (now) gives me over deferring updates— I hate that the feature isn’t available in Home.
by oliveshell 8y ago
I’m on Windows 10 Professional and I’m very happy with the control it (now) gives me over deferring updates— I hate that the feature isn’t available in Home.
- inamberclad 8y agoI'm on Ubuntu and I'm slightly shocked that people will put up with a tiered operating system business model that causes so much grief for its users.
- stagger87 8y agoYou're shocked people will put up with inconveniences on an operating system in which they develop and sell software for a living?
- antsar 8y agoIts not just developers. $job's entire IT department is full of willful Windows 10 users. When questioned, they defend all these "features" as if you'd insulted their baby. I'd call it Stockholm Syndrome, except nobody is forcing them to use it.
- jononor 8y agoHabit is a strong force.
- addicted 8y agoWhat are the alternatives? Mac OS means buying unaffordable or underpowered hardware. And being ok with living within the constraints allowed by Apple (on the hardware side). Linux is not a consumer option. Ubuntu, for all its flaws, was the first distro that could actually be considered consumer grade, and that’s why pretty much any mainstream PC maker offering a Linux option offered Ubuntu. But as you can tell by just glancing at the comments on the release for Ubuntu 18.10, even they have seemingly abandoned the desktop market in favor of servers and IOT, etc. And that’s before you get to Linux’s Applications problem. Windows is a fairly solid OS with a few remaining warts which MS stubbornly refuses to address. One of the issues was the years they spent trying to convert it into a Mobile first OS. That was such a waste of resources.
- throwaway4719 8y agoIT departments are often (not always) unfortunately full of intellectually weak people who have based their entire careers around knowing their way around Windows and not much else. Unfortunately it is taboo to acknowledge that people, and especially groups of people have varying degrees of intelligence. Just watch this comment being downvoted into oblivion, for instance.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoWindows runs the software and hardware people use. Until that changes Windows will be around. The real competition to watch is ChromeOS.
- apexalpha 8y ago>The real competition to watch is ChromeOS. In what way? Literally every OS has a browser and all ChromeOS is is an embedded instance of Chrome.
- DragoCubed 8y agoIt can run Android and Linux apps. It's a shame we can't customise it as much as Android, despite it seemingly replacing Android on tablets.