• QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This is exactly the “popular => bad” mentality that needs to die. Good products are good—and perhaps more importantly, bad products are bad—irrespective of their popularity. Linux is a masterpiece as a result of millions of hours of thoughtful and rigorous engineering, not the absence of its wide adoption on desktop. Windows is a dumpster fire as a result of millions of hours of reckless code vomit, not its ubiquity on desktop. See also: the Android operating system you know and (if I had to guess) love.

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      11 months ago

      I use windows and it runs prefectly fine for me so I never said it would get bad… just become more like windows.

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        11 months ago

        Like Windows, how? An operating system has dozens of properties that could be “like Windows”, please specify.

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        11 months ago

        Windows used to be alright/tolerable like 3 operating systems ago, each new version takes features away and brings new bugs that are more and more annoying in their attempt to get a slice of Apple’s closed garden pie. Their auto sign in feature has caused me SO MANY headaches when trying to sign in with a different user