Re:Ask HN: What are problems only Windows, macOS, or Linux has?
by bruce511 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @12:31AM
(#40396453)
The "advertising on windows" thing must be localized. I'm not in the US, I run windows 11, and I've never seen an ad.
Then again I've also turned off telemetry, and I run it fine despite not having a Microsoft account. Both of which are often listed as "requirements" by folks here.
So I'm guessing some windows behaviour is localized.
Re:Ask HN: What are problems only Windows, macOS, or Linux has?
by justinclift on Saturday May 18, 2024 @04:28AM
(#40397343)
For the Windows side of things, AtlasOS (it's an OSS project) works impressively well:
No advertising when using that. :)
---
That being said, I'm a Linux user (KDE generally) and was only mucking around with Windows/AtlasOS in VMs recently to try out virtual gpu stuff in Proxmox.
MacOS: I am the finder and you must do things my way
Linux: spiderman-pointing.gif
I was a Windows fan for years (going back to the 1990s) but switched over MacOS a few years and much prefer it, despite the occasional annoyances. I have also been using Linux since the very first release, but I like a GUI and the desktop experience on Linux has always felt rather fragmented and incoherent.