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For me, app compatibility is a dealbraker. For example, I need to run desktop MS Office, so Windows and Mac are viable options for my main machine, but Linux is

For me, app compatibility is a dealbraker. For example, I need to run desktop MS Office, so Windows and Mac are viable options for my main machine, but Linux is not. LibreOffice/OpenOffice is not sufficiently compatible (receiving an e-mailed complex Word or Excel document, changing a single letter, and sending it back is not guaranteed to not change anything else), so that's it, the 'network effect' locks me in. I could run Windows in a VM on Linux, or Linux on Windows; but that's a bit inconvenient, so OS X gives a good compromise for that.

BLKNSLVR 6y ago
I have an Excel spreadsheet I update on a daily basis and opening it in LibreOffice crashes 100% of the time. Thankfully WPS Office works with it fine, and allowed me to remove Microsoft from my workflow completely. (Windows 10 and it's updates, telemetry, no-notification update reboots, and unexplained slowness for me to finally migrate fully to desktop Linux).
- ric2b 6y ago
  If you don't mind, can you file a bug report? Crashes are usually the easiest bugs to track down and fix.
Falkon1313 6y ago
Similar for me. Although I do use LibreOffice instead of MS, I also have 25+ years of software, some quite niche, all of which still works fine on Windows. I don't want to waste time and effort trying to figure out how to make Linux compatible with each individual program or even determine if it can be. I do like linux for work, and for use as a basic computer for doing basic things like browsing. It has come a very long way over the years, IMHO surpassed Windows 7 and left Mac OS far behind. But Windows 10 is right up there with linux for ease of use, and most importantly has decades of compatibility. Both have their quirks, so that's a tradeoff, and neither set of quirks really outweighs the other for me. But that compatibility with the last quarter-century of my life is a clear point in favor of Windows. For Windows though, I do recommend getting the Pro version and configuring it how you want it. That eliminates almost all the problems of W10 that people complain about, like the random reboots and the tiles on the start menu.

BLKNSLVR 6y ago

I have an Excel spreadsheet I update on a daily basis and opening it in LibreOffice crashes 100% of the time. Thankfully WPS Office works with it fine, and allowed me to remove Microsoft from my workflow completely. (Windows 10 and it's updates, telemetry, no-notification update reboots, and unexplained slowness for me to finally migrate fully to desktop Linux).

ric2b 6y ago
If you don't mind, can you file a bug report? Crashes are usually the easiest bugs to track down and fix.

Falkon1313 6y ago

Similar for me. Although I do use LibreOffice instead of MS, I also have 25+ years of software, some quite niche, all of which still works fine on Windows. I don't want to waste time and effort trying to figure out how to make Linux compatible with each individual program or even determine if it can be. I do like linux for work, and for use as a basic computer for doing basic things like browsing. It has come a very long way over the years, IMHO surpassed Windows 7 and left Mac OS far behind. But Windows 10 is right up there with linux for ease of use, and most importantly has decades of compatibility. Both have their quirks, so that's a tradeoff, and neither set of quirks really outweighs the other for me. But that compatibility with the last quarter-century of my life is a clear point in favor of Windows. For Windows though, I do recommend getting the Pro version and configuring it how you want it. That eliminates almost all the problems of W10 that people complain about, like the random reboots and the tiles on the start menu.