yeah, that statement surprised me too. I guess the most telling statement about it came from my wife. She asked me to do to her laptop whatever I did to my da

yeah, that statement surprised me too. I guess the most telling statement about it came from my wife. She asked me to do to her laptop whatever I did to my daughters to make it run so fast. What I had done was replace Windows with Linux. I suspect I have the rapid change mobile phone GUI's to thank for no one even bothering to mention the difference between Linux and Windows - let alone needing to ask how to use it. How can they be "very far from being good" when they are so close? I guess I'm biased, as for me Linux + Cinnamon about as good as it gets. But it is a close thing. They are all good - Android, iOS, OSX, and yes Windows. I'd put Windows at the bottom of the pile, mostly because it's slow and because Microsoft's continual nags to hook you into their ecosystem (one drive, get Microsoft account, email, yada, yada). Oh, and the other annoying thing about Windows is the 1/2 baked transition between the control panel and the newfangled way of configuring things. There is enough clicking as it is without having to check a bunch places for a setting.