People are seemingly trying to rationalize their hatred of Windows 10
Geez, when you turn a half-way decent OS into a telemetry operating system and take control over other people’s computers, of course we are going to have a problem with it, that’s normal.
It’s better than people rationalizing why people should use an OS that wants to destroy standards, some which they set themselves such as Win32.
Now what isn’t normal is the damage control, I am sure Microsoft doesn’t need YOUR help defending them. They got lawyers and lobbyists for that kind of crap.
Well this thread is going to get locked by tomorrow, lol.
People need to understand that being a Open Source ideologue is way too much work for 99% of the population, and droning on about evil evil bad Microsoft gets super dull after the first 3 or so diatribes.
Some would say also that it is more work to be defending Microsoft left and right and having uptight Stockholm Syndrome to be quite frank. You can complain about people bashing Windows but at least some of us aren’t asleep to the ill’s the operating system is facing, which is a shame, cause it’s otherwise an okay OS that they are ruining themselves.
As for FOSS, the FOSS ideology is winning in the long term. That much is being proven more and more.
Honestly that’s doubtful, I mean if nobody woke up before, your not going to see urgency over this because it’s expected now that Windows 7 is near EOL, so it finally ran it’s course almost.
Maybe I rant too much about Microsoft but that’s mostly to express disappointment in something they had going for them and they throw it in the gutter. Leaves a sour taste. Being on Linux now though I don’t have much reason to worry about Windows anymore…
Bruh. Use Linux. Use Mac. Use Windows. I don’t care.
that’s the point.
That’s always been the point. Every time one of these threads pops up, people rail and pout and cry that AWH MAH GAW WINDOW BADDDDDD
and the rest of us are simply saying cool. You do you. The ranting and raving and bleating about it is really really fucking boring content though, because it’s the same handful of talking points needlessly regurgitated over and over and over and over. Linux isn’t that great, either.
Looks like nobody has been thinking about this but… Do you remember there is another Windows version between Windows 7 and Windows 10? Do you remember our good ol’ COUGHcough… Excuse me! Do you remember Windows 8.1?
It may make sense to not support Windows 7, but what about Windows 8.1? It actually just a 4y old OS. It is not that old. It doesn’t make sense to not support it!
And, by the way, is there so important upgrade in the Office 2019 that you need to upgrade? Is there something Office 2016 (or even 2013!) doesn’t do what Office 2019 does?
I thought about it. Did a quick couple of searches, and it looks like Microsoft killed off Windows H8 pretty quickly, thankfully. I’m sure from their perspective, it was one more way to goad people onto Windows 10. But honestly in a battle between Windows 8 and Windows 10, I’d go 10. There are at least performance improvements, and that UI isn’t complete and utter shit. Just mostly shit.
We’ll have to either come up with ways to fight the telemetry or…Oh wait, I forgot, we can’t say that Windows 10 is full of telemetry because apparently that “hasn’t been proven” yet.
Edit:
To the point of Office 2019, I can’t wait to see it. I can’t wait to see how Office continues to break Microsoft’s UI standards (what few they have left after Win8), and I can’t wait to see the changes in Office 2019 that will force the users to re-learn applications…again.
What’s the problem? I thought for years the consensus has been that you can use Libre Office and other open sourced free software to completely avoid Windows and Office. So which is it; is this an admission that the free and open source alternatives aren’t as good, or is this is non-issue?
Ok, then… Although I didn’t really mean Windows 8, but Windows 8.1. because it’s much better than Windows 8. You still have that frigin Start Screen, but still…
I’m happy I never was a MS Office Power User… Phew.
My work gave me whatever the latest Microsoft Office was for free with my most recent work laptop upgrade. I just gave it back to them and installed LibreOffice instead. I’m unaware of any benefit MS Office has over Libre, and am only aware of drawbacks (interface, compatibility, some feature sets, etc). I suppose MS Office used to have slightly easier page numbering, while LibreOffice favored finer grain control of formatting that, so toss up on which way you want I guess.
So… I’d say just embrace Libre now, even though you really could just keep using 2016 or whatever version you currently have forever. They don’t really make many important improvements from version to version (at least none that I’ve ever seen).
Alternatively, there are other Office suites as well, both paid and free, proprietary and open. I just don’t know many reasons to use anything other than Libre and maybe Google Docs for convenience.
Yeah i love it when my OS installs OneDrive and BubbleWitch by itself over and over no matter how many times i uninstall it. Such a great operating system.
Update your operating system, that was patched months ago.
x2 on thread getting locked. More Windows 10 crying. Deal with it. No one has ever used Windows because they wanted to control their system or debug kernel problems. They use Windows to WORK.
I would suggest to leave the Windows vs open source bashing out of this category. It does no one any good and only drives people away from open source software.
