> an extremely polished web browser, clipboard history, Windows Sandbox, screen recording, OCR, automatic private info redaction, Markdown support in Notepad an

> an extremely polished web browser, clipboard history, Windows Sandbox, screen recording, OCR, automatic private info redaction, Markdown support in Notepad and many more. None of those exists on most distros. That is simply wrong. Some of them might be a package install away rather than there by default, but they are hardly features that Windows pioneered… > automatic private info redaction With regard to that, I wasn't aware of a direct end user feature for that in Windows. There are tools for it in Office, and from a programmers PoV in .Net, but these are things that will continue even if Windows gets canned because it is a tech debt problem: Office is still a cash cow and .Net is via VS/VSCode and funnelling people into Azure. > - "reset this PC" functionality Maybe not as a one-click, but just re-follow the installation instructions… > - a built-in anti-malware Good point, though it is less needed due to most users installing via OS package repos which offers some friction to malware installation. Individual services that particularly need it have support for it though (mail servers and such). This might become a bigger issue if the use of “curl -> bash” as an installation or quick-run method keeps gaining traction. > - Touch/Face login I'm a refusenik there so I don't care about that one - biometric are bad for authentication/authorisation as they can't be easily revoked! And I'm sure I've seen it done so it is at least available. > - Ability to enable FDE post-installation Valid, ish, but where FDE is required commercially it is going to be done on first install anyway, the same for most home users that care enough. And conversion is possible after-the-fact, just not in as automated a manner as with Windows. > - Hybrid-sleep Though while we are talking about that, proper hibernate has been broken on Windows on many laptops for some time. > - Fast fractional HiDPI scaling I can't comment on that, it isn't something I would need. Though it is worth pointing out that a great many applications on Windows don't handle HiDPI well anyway, especially when you have different scaling factors on different screens. This is the same on any OS I think. > - Running x86 apps on AArch64 performantly Again completely out of my wheelhouse so I can't really comment. Again, this feels like a niche issue for consumer use cases ATM - the situation may change quickly as demand increases. > (like shoving Microsoft accounts, Teams, and anything Electron-based down our throats) And bloody “AI”. They've put it in notepad… Thankyou the Sirius Cybernetics Marketing Division!