Please, take a look outside of the SV/US bubble. Windows currently has a nearly 90% market share [1], is available to a very wide spectrum of devices. This is not because of "miserable people who can't afford anything better", but due to conscious efforts by Microsoft to make their product accesible. And due to marketing as well
Doesn't make anything that I have said less valid.
I just want to see Windows crowd admit that they left their audience down, and etch that on the back of their eyelids. Because right now they're in quantum entalgnement state, where they simultaneously admit it, but then again "but maybe it wasn't so bad after all, we got to keep most of market share".
You let my mom down, for god's sake.
Just stop. Admit and never forget. It was exactly as bad as you fear to remember and then some.
So do you consider "miserable people who can't afford anything better" all those gamers with Ultra PCs?
I still have Windows installed but it is entirely to boot into Steam/Orgin/BattleNet. I'd rather not mess around with Wine since I already paid for a Windows key. But the Windows user experience has drastically gone down over the years. If you aren't a gamer, you should 100% be using a Mac or a ready out of the box Linux distro like Ubuntu or Mint. I absolutely hate what Windows has become and it is a miserable experience now.
As I sit here running Windows on a Macbook...
All of the big operating systems are very good these days and have been for quite a while.
- You probably run it on Macbook because native Windows laptops are sub-par and bad value for the buck. Reinforces my point.
- You probably run it because you have to. Reinforces my point partially.
Yes, maybe Win10 is not so awful anymore. Who cares, the damage is done. The trick is not hitting the target once in a blue moon. The trick is hitting it every time, and it's obvious MS can't do that. Between Windows ME, Vista and Win8, can you remember even one comparable failure from Apple?
Win8 was so bad, it made Linux desktop look usable by comparison. Even as it was itself neglected as OSS enthusiasts moved to Mac OS en masse.
Apple's products are big ugly failures very often:
- Siri is a disappointment from usability point of view and ridiculed on the internet when compared to other digital assistants
- Apple Newton
- Apple servers, where it turned out that in the server market a shiny case doesn't matter as much as power, efficiency, and cost (bang for your buck)
- G4 Cube
- Any of their several mouses
- Any of their several keyboard
- The U2 itunes incident
- The "You're holding it wrong" fiasco
- The recent hilarious iphone X calculator bugs
- iPhone bending
No, I use Windows because I like things just working. OSX/Linux doesn't just work.
>one comparable failure from Apple
Just the whole damn OS. If I want unix based I'll use Linux.