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I've been using linux since 95, both doing kernel dev and using as desktop. At some point around windows 8 i decided to give windows a try, and purely use windo

I've been using linux since 95, both doing kernel dev and using as desktop. At some point around windows 8 i decided to give windows a try, and purely use windows 10 now and love it for many of the same reasons you mentioned. To me OS wars are over, if someone prefers linux desktop more power to them, but for me anymore I feel like I want technology out of the way as much as possible, and I feel like windows 10 desktop does that for me.

fartcannon 6y ago
Technology out of the way, advertisements in the menus, right?
- pault 6y ago
  I’m so tired of reading this same comment over and over every time someone on HN dares to say they prefer Windows. As if it obviates all of their other points. Also, you turn it off once after install and that’s it.
  - executesorder66 6y ago
    The fact that there are ads on by default, in an OS that you PAID for, is really so laughable. There is so much cognitive dissonance in the typical windows users minds. You'd think the average person would not PAY to have LESS control over their own machines. But I guess that microsoft PR has got you all by the balls.
    - ketzu 6y ago
      This might have reasons: * As far as I remember, start menu ads were premiered by ubuntu [1] * They might not have "bought" windows 10 at all or at least don't feel like they did: a free upgrade from 7/8, a campus license from their university, "included" in the computer they bought Many of the advantages and disadvantages of various OS come down to personal taste and willingness to deal with them. There's no need to belittle either side. [Dual payment systems are not new either: Ads and payments at the same time allow you to keep the cost lower (or increase your profit if you want to formulate it more cyncically).] [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/126995/how-to-disable-the-amazon-search-ads-in-ubuntus-unity-dash/ https://www.howtogeek.com/126995/how-to-disable-the-amazon-s...
      - executesorder66 6y ago
        > As far as I remember, start menu ads were premiered by ubuntu And that's just as abhorrent as when Windows does it. Luckily there are lots of other distros. > a free upgrade from 7/8 Microsoft forced that on a lot of people too, so it's not the users fault for "not paying" > a campus license from their university, "included" in the computer they bought Someone still payed for that, whether it is the OEM or the university. It still doesn't excuse the practice. > Many of the advantages and disadvantages of various OS come down to personal taste and willingness to deal with them. There's no need to belittle either side. I agree for the most part. If you have to use windows or MacOS because it is the only OS that some specific software is compiled for, and you need the software, then I don't blame you for using the OS. But really it's the software developer's fault for not releasing on all common platforms that brought the limitation in the first place. But I'm sorry I am going to belittle people who defend dual payment systems as you call them. That is just pure greed.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Like this https://linux.die.net/man/5/motd https://linux.die.net/man/5/motd https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune

fartcannon 6y ago

Technology out of the way, advertisements in the menus, right?

pault 6y ago
I’m so tired of reading this same comment over and over every time someone on HN dares to say they prefer Windows. As if it obviates all of their other points. Also, you turn it off once after install and that’s it.
- executesorder66 6y ago
  The fact that there are ads on by default, in an OS that you PAID for, is really so laughable. There is so much cognitive dissonance in the typical windows users minds. You'd think the average person would not PAY to have LESS control over their own machines. But I guess that microsoft PR has got you all by the balls.
  - ketzu 6y ago
    This might have reasons: * As far as I remember, start menu ads were premiered by ubuntu [1] * They might not have "bought" windows 10 at all or at least don't feel like they did: a free upgrade from 7/8, a campus license from their university, "included" in the computer they bought Many of the advantages and disadvantages of various OS come down to personal taste and willingness to deal with them. There's no need to belittle either side. [Dual payment systems are not new either: Ads and payments at the same time allow you to keep the cost lower (or increase your profit if you want to formulate it more cyncically).] [1] https://www.howtogeek.com/126995/how-to-disable-the-amazon-search-ads-in-ubuntus-unity-dash/ https://www.howtogeek.com/126995/how-to-disable-the-amazon-s...
    - executesorder66 6y ago
      > As far as I remember, start menu ads were premiered by ubuntu And that's just as abhorrent as when Windows does it. Luckily there are lots of other distros. > a free upgrade from 7/8 Microsoft forced that on a lot of people too, so it's not the users fault for "not paying" > a campus license from their university, "included" in the computer they bought Someone still payed for that, whether it is the OEM or the university. It still doesn't excuse the practice. > Many of the advantages and disadvantages of various OS come down to personal taste and willingness to deal with them. There's no need to belittle either side. I agree for the most part. If you have to use windows or MacOS because it is the only OS that some specific software is compiled for, and you need the software, then I don't blame you for using the OS. But really it's the software developer's fault for not releasing on all common platforms that brought the limitation in the first place. But I'm sorry I am going to belittle people who defend dual payment systems as you call them. That is just pure greed.
pjmlp 6y ago
Like this https://linux.die.net/man/5/motd https://linux.die.net/man/5/motd https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune https://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune