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> People underestimate the difference investing in good hardware makes. Yes, but ... > Getting mad at a "broken" computer is easier than admitting you messed
by tenebrisalietum 3y ago
> People underestimate the difference investing in good hardware makes.
Yes, but ...
> Getting mad at a "broken" computer is easier than admitting you messed up and made a terrible investment.
Mid take. Windows still sucks on $1200 hardware, just faster. You still get the same crappy UI that shuffles around every couple of updates just because, dangerous legacy stuff like ActiveX, SMB1, and IE lurking just beneath the surface, ads in the Start Menu, random updates, forced reboots, etc.
- skeaker 3y agoThat's beside the point, isn't it? I don't think anybody is arguing that Windows doesn't have issues
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoNo, it's definitely within the point.
- jeroenhd 3y agoI agree that Windows sucks. I also think it sucks less than macOS, but Microsoft is working hard to change that. Linux sucks less in some ways but sucks a lot more in many others. None of the operating systems seem to want to support you as the user anymore, they're all part of a ploy to buy more hardware, rent more software, and move everything to some kind of cloud solution you'll never be able to get rid of. However, ActiveX, SMB1, and IE11 haven't been an issue since Windows 11, and you need to go out of your way to find them in Windows 10. IE has been dead for over a year. Even before that, Microsoft received widespread criticism when they hid IE11 by default, because users didn't want to change away from IE for some godforsaken reason. The Windows kernel is a software engineering marvel and Windows has become incredibly stable on modern hardware. The shell on top of it has become a victim of terrible enshittification that started in Windows 8, or maybe 10.