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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by Kagerjay on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:29PM (#16387320)
There's a huge range of applications that are only macOS or windows only that are a miles better in everyway.

For instance, apple's sketch. You won't find anything like it even on Windows.

For instance, windows PC. You have a ton of native autohotkey applications for writing macros, powerful 3rd party file explorers like directoryOpus, etc. You can't play video games on it, naturally gamedevelopment is a hassle as well. You can't run CAD programs, etc

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by badsectoracula on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:43PM (#16387959)
> You have a ton of native autohotkey applications for writing macros

Note that you can do that with X11 too using tools like xbindkeys, xdotool, xnee, xrebind, wmctrl, etc.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by emodendroket on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:49PM (#16388012)
Well, sure, and DirectX applications could all be written as OpenGL applications instead. But who's going to do that work?
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