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"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fan

"loved by millions"? In all my years in the IT sector, I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who actually loved Windows. I've certainly seen my share of Apple fans (some people call them "cultists"), and of course plenty of Linux/FOSS devotees, but I've certainly never seen this kind of devotion in Windows users.

vsnf 3y ago
I’m not as devoted to Windows as Apple people are to Apple, but I will happily go on record and say that at least from the perspective of a user, I’m a fan of windows.
- eviks 3y ago
  But you don't love it unlike some more devoted people?
  - EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
    You need intense love to use a mac without (real) games, or Linux without (meaningful) GUI. Windows has both, so it doesn't require devotion to use.
    - arp242 3y ago
      Not everyone plays games, and Linux has no GUI? lol? "I don't like it" is not the same as "it doesn't exist".
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Not the OP, however in my case while not enough to have an Apple tattoo [0], enough to have long stopped being an UNIX zealot since Windows 7 came around, fed up with "Year of Desktop Linux". My first UNIX was Xenix in 1993, by the way. [0] - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1341309 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1341309
irksomehails 3y ago
You might not see devoted Windows users like mac or Linux but if the Windows users were to try the other two, the majority of them are not going to like the experience and the limitations they come with.
59nadir 3y ago
Honestly, if you surprised me with a computer running Windows XP I think the most immediate feeling I would feel for that computer is love. Windows 95/98 would also bring up some feelings but not as much as XP. But yeah, "business as usual" Windows without nostalgia attached is hard to love, in my opinion. For the most part it just works decently but has a "It doesn't seem like I'm in control of my computer, really" feel to it.
pjmlp 3y ago
I guess you don't hang around demoscene and game developer folks.
rifkiamil 3y ago
For some one running many line of bussines applications in a enerpise I loved NT 4 to NT 6.1! So I guess you now meet sombody @shiroyama!
snazz01 3y ago
I don't love Windows, I just don't despise it like Linux.

vsnf 3y ago

I’m not as devoted to Windows as Apple people are to Apple, but I will happily go on record and say that at least from the perspective of a user, I’m a fan of windows.

eviks 3y ago
But you don't love it unlike some more devoted people?
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 3y ago
  You need intense love to use a mac without (real) games, or Linux without (meaningful) GUI. Windows has both, so it doesn't require devotion to use.
  - arp242 3y ago
    Not everyone plays games, and Linux has no GUI? lol? "I don't like it" is not the same as "it doesn't exist".
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Not the OP, however in my case while not enough to have an Apple tattoo [0], enough to have long stopped being an UNIX zealot since Windows 7 came around, fed up with "Year of Desktop Linux". My first UNIX was Xenix in 1993, by the way. [0] - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1341309 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1341309

irksomehails 3y ago

You might not see devoted Windows users like mac or Linux but if the Windows users were to try the other two, the majority of them are not going to like the experience and the limitations they come with.

59nadir 3y ago

Honestly, if you surprised me with a computer running Windows XP I think the most immediate feeling I would feel for that computer is love. Windows 95/98 would also bring up some feelings but not as much as XP. But yeah, "business as usual" Windows without nostalgia attached is hard to love, in my opinion. For the most part it just works decently but has a "It doesn't seem like I'm in control of my computer, really" feel to it.

pjmlp 3y ago

I guess you don't hang around demoscene and game developer folks.

rifkiamil 3y ago

For some one running many line of bussines applications in a enerpise I loved NT 4 to NT 6.1! So I guess you now meet sombody @shiroyama!

snazz01 3y ago

I don't love Windows, I just don't despise it like Linux.