Thread 106358285

What's your opinion about the Windows operating system?

I don't really use Windows as an main operating system.

>>106358285 (OP)
It's a love-hate situation for me.
It's bloated and annoying, but it gets the work done without extra steps like Linux.
>inb4 Change to an easier distro
Say what you want but all Linux distros require extra configurations anyhow and I just want to make things done without tinkering.

very good operating system - works and has a lot of software

>>106358285 (OP)
Low bugs, good functionality, good backwards compatibility, extremely wide-spread user-base brings great software variety and help with problems.
(When using the unbloated varieties & avoiding bad updates)

>>106358380
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>>106358416
Very good work Pajeet and Rajesh and Pajeet, your $10 Google play card will be sent to you on Monday :)

>>106358285 (OP)
Annoying ads.
Love the compatability with third party software
annoying updates and bloatware
easy to use

7/10

>>106358285 (OP)
It's insufferable. I can't believe how things just continually get worse and worse.

After decades of linux/windows I've seen the light and now use macOS. Windows is constantly fighting the user to do what it wants, which is be spyware. And I don't have time to tinker with and write custom drivers for linux when macOS just fucking works.

>>106358285 (OP)
7/10, highly configurable with group policy, easy to manage at home and on a corporate network, massive software compatibility, massive hardware compatibility, easy to use, huge amount of resources for troubleshooting and tinkering, telemetry and ads although annoying can be disabled easily.

>>106358476
nice pumpkin breasts

>>106358513
Her eyes are up here, chud. Please be respectful.

>>106358285 (OP)
It used to be great, the objectively superior choice for desktop computers, but it's been undermined by user-hostile anti-features like telemetry / spyware, ads, bloatware, shit like forcing people into updates with forced restarts, AI garbage and so on. It's pretty fucking shit nowadays, I think the only reason it's still in wide-ranging use is its compatibility with both software and hardware, which is just a legacy from the time when it was actually good.

You can see this if you look at its desktop OS market share, it has been on a steady decline for over a decade at this point. Nobody WANTS to use Windows because it's good anymore, you just have people still using it either out of inertia or because the things they want to use are compatible with Windows. As people realize they can accomplish their tasks elsewhere, they're moving away from Windows (mainly to Mac).

>>106358631
exactly.
> I think the only reason it's still in wide-ranging use is its compatibility with both software and hardware
this and also enterprise/corp use

>>106358285 (OP)
The more you learn how it "works" the more you wonder why it's so bad. It's really not that good but all your nonfree goyslop still "works" so you're forced to use it like a good goy. That's it. That's Windows in a nutshell.

>>106358683
>his and also enterprise/corp use
Yeah, though it's entrenched there for similar reasons it's entrenched elsewhere as well, its compatibility with software packages they've been using for a long time.

>>106358285 (OP)
That it stopped being an operating system with windows 7 discontinuation, now windows is a platform for saas and ads.

>>106358285 (OP)
I have windows on my main system, I've had it since 2021, but I have everything backed up for when windows 10 shits itself inevitably

I use Debian, but I have a Win7 PC I keep for older software before the SaaS bullshit. I've eliminated Microsoft 100% out of my life except for the relic software that still works just as good now as they did then, and I'll dump that as alternatives come out.

Windows told me to get a new processor before october, so I got a new operating system instead.

>>106358285 (OP)
>Anonymous
My brother in Christ, Anonymous are dead and most people here are just /pol/ tourists and unemployed gooners.
>What's your opinion about the Windows operating system?
Just werks
>I don't really use Windows as an main operating system.
Consider IoT LTSC release if you find regular Windows too annoying. Refer to >>>/g/fwt/ for more info.

Windows is nice because there's lots of software that you just install once (any version) and it works forever and you never have to update unless you want to.

But it's shit because MS keeps shoving more and more annoyances into it. On 11 now all the corners are round and the scroll bars animate and there's an AI asshole thing and notifications up the whazoo and a new right click menu that's shit but you can turn off most of it (except for round corners).

>>106358285 (OP)
The whole point of an operating system is running your programs. That part Windows does rather painlessly, if you aren't a power user.
It's everything else that is the problem.

>>106358550
Sorry about that

>>106358285 (OP)
Useful only if you actually really need proper word processing (Microsoft Office) or media editing (Adobe products, etc) or to play shitty ass triple A games that have anticheat. I don't need any of these.
One of the most freeing things I've ever done was ditch windows entirely for Linux.

>>106361367
>proper word processing
>mentions word, not latex