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>using windows feels like fighting a living thing that constantly want to make me experience bloat. Never has my professional life been distilled to such an ac

• agumonkey 5y ago
  It's sad Microsoft is lazy on this, it could be a marketing lever to make people have really simple and stable experience on their OS. And there's enough infrastructure to programmatically ensure "immutability" to some degree. Alas they have other unicorns to chase these days.
  • vladvasiliu 4y ago
    But why would they bother? Everyone and their grandma is using Windows anyway, and most people don't even know (or care) there are alternatives.
    • agumonkey 4y ago
      Slight counter point, I have 80yo neighbor. Her laptop is sluggish due to some strange problem in the windows install (I investigated hard but it's "window boot event log" level of problem). I mentioned her I can put another windows like thing, safer, faster, freeer, and probably easier. She agreed, when I ran Mint on a live usb key she said yeah but where are my icons and my things and lost interest in a second. Humans are complicated.
      • vladvasiliu 4y ago
        Sure, I know there are such counterpoints. I, myself, only use Windows for games and Photoshop (both of which I'm looking to find alternatives for on Linux, which is my daily driver). My mom, who's quite computer illiterate, also used to use an Ubuntu laptop. But the broader point was that MS's market share is so huge, and most people and companies seem to care so little about these annoyances, that it wouldn't change much for their bottom line.