3 ms·

What was your reason before ads were added to Windows?

rkagerer 8y ago
Forced updates that risk randomly breaking my machine the night before a big deadline
eitland 8y ago
Mine: - Clumsy installation process (unless you where in a position where you didn't have to rely on OEM crap, i.e. unless you where an IT pro or enthusiast) - Performance. My builds would easily take 50% more time on the same hardware with Windows. Git was slower. Node was slower. - Ecosystem. Until WSL getting access to standard tooling was kind of clumsy (respect for Cygwin, but still). Even after WSL it is still clumsy (who can tell my how to activate WSL without consulting duckduckgo? I've done it twice and I still cannot say for sure). - Package management: Used to be non-existent (except again cygwin). Now it is just clumsy (a mix of Windows Store, WSL apt-get and Chocolatey should get you most of the stuff you need.) - Licensing. I'm no die hard free software person, but many of the standard programs on Windows are directly user hostile (Acrobat Reader comes to mind). - Until recently Windows also lacked basic desktop manager features like multiple desktops. - Not directly Microsofts fault, but if people like me are using Windows it is often because someone I work for demand it. Usually that also means having to deal with an IT department running Active Directory and all the "interesting" consequences that has, even for someone who is part of said IT department like I've been. (Getting locked out from your files because an admin flipped a switch? Check! Someone swapped regional settings across a group of machines that I was responsible for and locked them, causing all POS systems to fail with no way to fix them? Check! Having to wait for all kinds of scripts that run on logon? Check! Accept having basic parts of your user experience set by it department? Check! Again this is not MS fault directly but back when I first experienced working with Windows in companies for some reason Active Directory seemed to attract people who wants to to those kinds of things and/or it has a power to make them want it. </rant>

Forced updates that risk randomly breaking my machine the night before a big deadline

Mine: - Clumsy installation process (unless you where in a position where you didn't have to rely on OEM crap, i.e. unless you where an IT pro or enthusiast) - Performance. My builds would easily take 50% more time on the same hardware with Windows. Git was slower. Node was slower. - Ecosystem. Until WSL getting access to standard tooling was kind of clumsy (respect for Cygwin, but still). Even after WSL it is still clumsy (who can tell my how to activate WSL without consulting duckduckgo? I've done it twice and I still cannot say for sure). - Package management: Used to be non-existent (except again cygwin). Now it is just clumsy (a mix of Windows Store, WSL apt-get and Chocolatey should get you most of the stuff you need.) - Licensing. I'm no die hard free software person, but many of the standard programs on Windows are directly user hostile (Acrobat Reader comes to mind). - Until recently Windows also lacked basic desktop manager features like multiple desktops. - Not directly Microsofts fault, but if people like me are using Windows it is often because someone I work for demand it. Usually that also means having to deal with an IT department running Active Directory and all the "interesting" consequences that has, even for someone who is part of said IT department like I've been. (Getting locked out from your files because an admin flipped a switch? Check! Someone swapped regional settings across a group of machines that I was responsible for and locked them, causing all POS systems to fail with no way to fix them? Check! Having to wait for all kinds of scripts that run on logon? Check! Accept having basic parts of your user experience set by it department? Check! Again this is not MS fault directly but back when I first experienced working with Windows in companies for some reason Active Directory seemed to attract people who wants to to those kinds of things and/or it has a power to make them want it. </rant>