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> frankly all the major ones are fine these days. No Windows version since XP has been fine. They varied from utterly unusable crap to barely tolerable. I hone

> frankly all the major ones are fine these days. No Windows version since XP has been fine. They varied from utterly unusable crap to barely tolerable. I honestly never understood why people use Windows, is there an argument other than "I'm used to it"? I still have a small Win partition installed for rare Win-only things and every single time I interact with Win 10 I remember how utterly broken it is. Like the moment you boot, you're bombarded with crap that has flashy colors, animation some even sound too. It feels like that one Futurama episode about AOL.

criddell 5y ago
> is there an argument other than "I'm used to it"? Yes. The argument is "I want to run X and it only runs (or runs best) on Windows|Linux|macOS. People don't fire up their computer because they want to use Linux or Windows, they fire it up because they want to play Assassin's Creed or XCode.
- vort3 5y ago
  Can confirm, one of my friends really wanted to use Linux (because she doesn't trust microsoft and tired of windows being bloated, she has a rather slow laptop), but her colleagues constantly send her some .docx/.xlsx files that simply won't work with openoffice or other alternatives. She tried very hard with Wine, PlayOnLinux, tried all sorts of alternative offices, VMs, but gave up and had to install Windows anyway because majority of people simply refuse to use open data formats and use proprietary closed formats. I'm also running Windows because I have to do some CorelDraw drawings and don't want to bother with wine etc. Otherwise I would be running Linux for sure.
selfhoster11 5y ago
I consider Windows 7 about the only acceptable version of Windows after XP. Everything else between XP and 10 (inclusive) has been a failure to some degree (with Windows 8.1 perhaps being a minor failure compared to what 10 became later on).

criddell 5y ago

> is there an argument other than "I'm used to it"? Yes. The argument is "I want to run X and it only runs (or runs best) on Windows|Linux|macOS. People don't fire up their computer because they want to use Linux or Windows, they fire it up because they want to play Assassin's Creed or XCode.

vort3 5y ago
Can confirm, one of my friends really wanted to use Linux (because she doesn't trust microsoft and tired of windows being bloated, she has a rather slow laptop), but her colleagues constantly send her some .docx/.xlsx files that simply won't work with openoffice or other alternatives. She tried very hard with Wine, PlayOnLinux, tried all sorts of alternative offices, VMs, but gave up and had to install Windows anyway because majority of people simply refuse to use open data formats and use proprietary closed formats. I'm also running Windows because I have to do some CorelDraw drawings and don't want to bother with wine etc. Otherwise I would be running Linux for sure.

selfhoster11 5y ago

I consider Windows 7 about the only acceptable version of Windows after XP. Everything else between XP and 10 (inclusive) has been a failure to some degree (with Windows 8.1 perhaps being a minor failure compared to what 10 became later on).