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The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny, and happens every 5 years or so. Changing from one OS to another is orders of magnitude more co
by bruce511 3y ago
The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny, and happens every 5 years or so.
Changing from one OS to another is orders of magnitude more complex. As you point out above jumping between them is painful.
Your job may require you to do that, but you're a tiny sliver of the work-force, never mind everyone else. My book-keeper has never encountered the Windows Registry.
You're thinking of the OS as an actual bit of software you interact with. For 99.99% of users it's invisible. They just want printing to happen when they press the print button.
- arc-in-space 3y ago> The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny Huh?! That's bullshit. I had recently tried to fix something on family's PC that upgraded itself to Win11 and had absolutely no clue how to navigate all the new settings panels even though I use 10 near daily.
- TillE 3y agoYou use the search box, just like you find settings in macOS / iOS / etc. No sane person is expected to memorize configuration GUIs these days.
- smaudet 3y agoYes, but this is in counterpoint to the claim (paraphrasing) that "the operating doesn't change much only every 5 years". If you go a couple months often that's enough for some things to be drastically different in Windows land. In a year its a whole new OS.
- smaudet 3y ago"The change from say one version of Windows to the next is tiny, and happens every 5 years or so." This is simply not true - the OS can and does change with monthly patches. Windows and Linux are both worse than Android or iOS/OSX in this regards I find, but that's to due with vendor preference not an underlying guarantee.