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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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I actually really like Windows 10, a huge portion of this list could easily apply to any modern operating system that isn't Linux, and even there some of it applies. So OSX, Android, iOS, etc. The section "Now the second kind of issues is intrinsic to Windows 10 only" is full of things that are literally applicable to all the OSes I listed above. I had some laugh out loud moments reading it. Are people just blinded b…

MacOS doesn't have 95% of the listed issues.

And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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post #54

I've come to accept that there is no good OS (maybe iOS, but not really). You're just picking your poison. Want to be spied on and have your system slowly accumulate cruft and grind to a halt over the course of a few years? Use Windows. Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running on a day to day basis? Use Linux. Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android. Want to…

If there were a proper framework for doing web development on iPadOS, I'd switch to using my iPad for a big chunk of my development. It's getting very close but still falls a bit short.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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I haven’t experienced that in a while (IIRC it was at least 1,5 years ago). E.g. W10 1903 has not done that to me. Does anyone here know if it’s possible for »mere mortals« to send in bug reports to the Windows team…? If so, you might want to do that. Or does that require going through some kind of intermediary?

Look for feedback hub in your start menu.

Ok. But that’s not really like logging a support ticket, right?

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims in TFA: 1. It's not hard to disable Cortana and internet-assisted start menu search completion. I assume that's what they mean by "keyboard scanning and voice recording" because I don't think there's anything else like that in the OS. It is possible…

It is possible to disable telemetry. Please go on. Having no officially supported way to completely turn off phoning home if we want to is one of our deal-breakers.

Exactly.

Lots of utilities which disable telemetry automatically are invasive as hell and sometimes break your Windows installation.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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post #54

I've come to accept that there is no good OS (maybe iOS, but not really). You're just picking your poison. Want to be spied on and have your system slowly accumulate cruft and grind to a halt over the course of a few years? Use Windows. Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running on a day to day basis? Use Linux. Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android. Want to…

MacOS looks like the best poison.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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post #75
post #54

I've come to accept that there is no good OS (maybe iOS, but not really). You're just picking your poison. Want to be spied on and have your system slowly accumulate cruft and grind to a halt over the course of a few years? Use Windows. Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running on a day to day basis? Use Linux. Want to be constantly spied on and probably also hacked? Use Android. Want to…

> Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running? Use Linux. This may have been true 10+ years ago; the amount of fiddling required is pretty low these days.

It depends on your hardware.

If you have everything Intel based then yeah, it almost just works, except the i915 driver occasionally has huge regressions, Mesa sometimes has huge regressions, and the kernel itself oftentimes has huge regressions.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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I actually really like Windows 10, a huge portion of this list could easily apply to any modern operating system that isn't Linux, and even there some of it applies. So OSX, Android, iOS, etc. The section "Now the second kind of issues is intrinsic to Windows 10 only" is full of things that are literally applicable to all the OSes I listed above. I had some laugh out loud moments reading it. Are people just blinded b…

Just because other companies are pushing out shoddy updates and other user-hostile measures, that doesn't mean we shouldn't criticise the one we're talking about for doing it.

My phone, which was top of the range when I bought it less than a year ago, has serious bugs in the most basic features, which have replaced other serious bugs in similarly basic features from the last software release. This was all essential stuff -- literally things like making and receiving calls properly -- that worked fine on a little Nokia block costing 3% of the price and available a decade ago.

The fact that both market forces and official regulation have failed so badly that my modern, four-figure-cost phone can't do what a Nokia block costing maybe 3% of the price could do a decade ago is hardly a glowing endorsement of our modern consumer-hostile tech culture.

So it is with Windows 10, and its obsession with spying on everything you do, and with updating itself without your knowledge or consent and forcing reboots at times it considers it necessary. Some of us don't work regular hours and do need to do long-running (multiple days) jobs fairly often, and there is just no way that a serious operating system should be interfering with that.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

#128

I actually really like Windows 10, a huge portion of this list could easily apply to any modern operating system that isn't Linux, and even there some of it applies. So OSX, Android, iOS, etc. The section "Now the second kind of issues is intrinsic to Windows 10 only" is full of things that are literally applicable to all the OSes I listed above. I had some laugh out loud moments reading it. Are people just blinded b…

MacOS doesn't have 95% of the listed issues. And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.

And we don't have any other desktop OSes which are ready for prime time.

People keep saying that, but how often is it really true these days?

As a professional software developer, the tools available on UNIXy platforms are already much better in many cases than the Windows ports.

For a typical home user who is mostly interested in things like email and social networking, and maybe needs to write up some notes or do a quick household budget spreadsheet or basic photo editing, there is capable software available on any serious desktop platform today.

It's true that gaming lags behind, though there has been useful progress there in recent times, but lots of people game on dedicated consoles or on their mobile devices anyway now.

Are you sure you're not just repeating dogma that is well out of date by now?

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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Can you please, because I'm terrified, 2-3 reasons why win7 and no windows 10? I need to make a decision soon (1 week or sooner)

Windows 7 goes end of life in 2 weeks. Unless you're using an old computer your hardware (e.g. CPU) is probably not supported, even if it does run it won't run properly. With EoL approaching Nvidia/AMD will stop publishing driver updates and new GPUs won't be hardware accelerated. The security model in Windows 10 is as big a jump as XP -> 7 was. It often takes manually loading additional drivers to even get the insta…

> Windows 7 goes end of life in 2 weeks.

No it doesn't, for two reasons.

Chromium Edge will support windows 7, ironically the release date it's just one day after Win7 supposedly goes eol. and of course Windows 7 ESU support will end in 2023.

Re: Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Want to be constantly fiddling with your system just to keep it running? Use Linux. This may have been true 10+ years ago; the amount of fiddling required is pretty low these days.

It depends on your hardware. If you have everything Intel based then yeah, it almost just works, except the i915 driver occasionally has huge regressions, Mesa sometimes has huge regressions, and the kernel itself oftentimes has huge regressions.

Run Debian Stable or CentOS and you won't have to worry about "regressions" for at least 2 years. If the hardware works when the system is installed or upgraded, it will work for the lifetime of that release (barring exceptional bugs).

Windows has nothing comparable, besides the LTSB/LTSC releases that people can't even figure out how to get legally.

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