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Microsoft has zero respect for its users. Windows is now a layered cake of CPU-hogging crap.

• nathanaldensr 7y ago
  This is just incorrect. Windows as an OS is amazingly stable considering how many devices it supports and how backward-compatible it is. Windows as an ecosystem less-so, but I mainly fault crappy drivers written by budget commodity hardware manufacturers like Realtek and Conexant. Windows is not a "CPU hog" either; install Windows fresh with only the manufacturers' drivers installed and you'll be running at 0% of CPU unless a background task like Windows Update is running.
  • 0815test 7y ago
    Linux as an OS is a lot more backwards-compatible than Windows (including having better backwards-compatibility support for Windows software, via Wine, than Windows itself!), and runs usably on a wider range of (x86-like) hardware. It tends to fail altogether only on low-quality hardware that, even on Windows, is only ever supported via the crappy OEM drivers you mention. ...Also, nice trick statement at the end - Windows Update is always running!
    • SmellyGeekBoy 7y ago
      I'm a fellow Linux user and... Well, please don't do this.
  • vanilla_nut 7y ago
    > unless a background task like Windows Update is running. That is his point. Even on the VM I run on my macbook for work, there is always a background task running. Windows Defender, Windows Update, a bunch of incoherently named things... the list goes on.