Is Windows Bad?

[@davidchang2015]

seems a lot of the younger crowd weren't around when Microsoft was the big bully. good to keep this part of history alive.

[@TurntableTV]

Remember the "Halloween documents"? Boy, oh boy! Now MS is embracing Linux.

[@gwgux]

@@TurntableTV IMO only sort of embracing Linux. They support WSL and make a big deal about running it in the Azure cloud and on Hyper V, but what all that has in common is Microsoft code still controls the hardware which keeps Microsoft in the drivers seat for all those solutions. They "embraced" Linux by getting it to run on their systems. They "extended" Linux with kernel contributions so that it'll run better on Microsoft's platforms. Now the only thing they haven't been able to do is extinguish it.

[@frequentlycynical642]

@@TurntableTV It is? How so?

[@johnarnold893]

David Chang ......... If there was no MS computers would have been over the top expensive. MS allowed for a multitude of computer makers so that IBM and Apple didn't dominate the market with expensive stuff.

[@gwgux]

@@johnarnold893 TBH, I'm not so sure about that. Sure Apple was out there, but there was Tandy, Amiga, Commodore, and other brands out there too. The less expensive hardware was there and was still going to be coming out, just with no unifying software to run on computers made by different companies. If Microsoft didn't do what they did, somebody else would have had that idea and ran with it. For all we know, Intel, who was already selling to multiple companies may had come up with an idea for an OS that'll run on their product line of x86 CPUs no matter who built a computer with it to boost their sales. The computer revolution still would have happened, but it would've looked a lot different. We'd probably all be hating on a different company due to how companies work, but Microsoft took (stole) the crown so here we are.

[@andrey.003]

windows itself is not bad. the microsoft policy is bad.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

true but sadly they made some bad chooses like baked in ads on a paid os or not the best at checking if a update will break something or forced updates also they still have anti trust cases against them even in 2022 so i have some trust issues with them

[@vincewilson1]

Windows is lousy but not bad as you can do most of what you want as long as you don't need a powerhouse of an OS because then Microsoft Windows is not your friend.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

@@vincewilson1 yep you are money for them that is all but not being your friend goes for all a big tech

[@MrAsmontero]

Kind of... windows 11 is also a memory greedy monster...

[@user-yt4rs7ig1i]

@@linuxstreamer8910 people actually paying for windows? waht?

[@ankur-dhama]

The goal for Microsoft and Apple is now to increase their "services" business, which means that they will use their OSes as the platform to push their services business (including ads) and all the decisions about these OSes will be around that goal.

[@LillyAnarkitty]

Over/under on how long until we see ads on the desktop

[@77seban]

You forget also Google 😁

[@ankur-dhama]

@@77seban Google case is opposite, they are a services business and now they have OSes like Android and ChromeOS to push their services.

[@cheebadigga4092]

True but Apple always has been about their services and they were always public about it.

[@schemage2210]

It's so sad that you're right, and personally I think this is the wrong decision for their platform. Even if windows only has 70% that is an insane amount of computers that depend on the Windows OS. Fact is the more Windows has invested and developed its "services" the worse it's actual OS is and that is bad for everyone.

[@jimfoye1055]

I'm glad you use the terms "nefarious" and "ruthless", as these are entirely appropriate!

[@vladimir_k_bestplayerna1217]

Having been a Windows user my whole life, I actually switched to Arch this month, and even though it's a lot of work to fully set up, it's worth it go get out of Microsoft's ecosystem and telemetry. It always really annoyed how immediately after starting up and logging in, Task Manager would show some processes already using bandwidth, sending and receiving data, even though I haven't even done anything yet.

[@christopherjackson2157]

Wow congrats that's a big shift. I can only imagine how much work and effort that would change would take. Gj

[@manolol1119]

I also switched to Linux (Zorin OS (Ubuntu based)) at the beginning of summer holidays, but I still have Windows as dual boot, because I can't get some programs (mostly games) like Sims 4 and MS Flight Simulator to run. For now, I really enjoy using Linux. I also knew some basics, because I've experimented on VMs and a Raspberry Pi before. Only had few problems. Once, I somehow bricked my package repositories file by trying Nala (another package manager). It somehow added many repository links that didn't work and in the end, I couldn't install or update any software (besides Flatpaks and snaps). I think there would have been a way to restore the default repos, but I didn't understand how, so I reinstalled the OS. Since then, I always make Timeshift Snapshots. Hopefully, that works if I destroy something again xD After about a month, Windows feels kinda slow fore me. I think it was worth to try Linux :)

[@thekillersclan420]

@@manolol1119 yeah the problem on ZorinOS with nala is that they have their own repos… I know, that nala is better (I personally also don’t like apt), but better stick with apt on Zorin/Mint/many other Ubuntu based distros… also… don’t use Ubuntu… snaps all over the place…

[@nomadvagabond1263]

@@manolol1119 you can always wine it up:3

[@Anonymous4045]

Nice job! When you run Windows, your pc isn't yours, it's Microsoft's

[@SaHaRaSquad]

I originally used Windows because it "just worked", you installed it and every piece of hardware had its drivers installed. Then Windows 10 came out, and it got so many broken updates that it was less stable than my worst experiences with Linux. So then I fully switched to Linux, and in 3 years with Arch I had exactly one update issue that didn't fix itself with a reboot but cost me 10 minutes of googling, despite my update schedule varying between multiple updates a day and one update per month. Oh, how the turntables.

[@MILGEO]

"I originally used Windows because it "just worked", you installed it and every piece of hardware had its drivers installed. Then Windows 10 came out" You hit the nail on the head! With so many people and YT creators not only complaining about that, they're coming up with ways to make Windows seem more like Windows 7! I don't know why Microsoft doesn't take the hint and give people what they want (back). I wouldn't object to paying the prices they used to charge for a builders version of the OS if it made me feel like I had some degree of privacy with a machine that focused more on stability than watching my every move!

[@till5142o]

I find that crazy. Back in the day I would get broken windows installs from non-commercial customers very often, nowadays maybe 2 per month. I am not that old so I dont know anything older than win7.

[@catriona_drummond]

None of you ever installed Windows XP, for sure.

[@SaHaRaSquad]

@@catriona_drummond in the XP days pretty much every OS was garbage, who cares. Today we only have Windows 8/10/11 and those are not exactly Microsoft's best.

[@MILGEO]

@@catriona_drummond I loved XP and used it to the last day of end of life! I wanted Win 7 to get the bugs worked out before using it. Compared to 95 or 98, XP was like a dream come true!

[@huljaxful]

I've been using linux distros for couple of years, firefox as a browser and search engines that are not google. I believe in foss and support as much as i can. Pluto sounds really problematic for sure. Boycott MS and other monopoly bullies as much as you can.

[@gecko2000405]

The ruthlessness of Apple, Nvidia, and Intel have to be discussed if you're going to say 'Windows' is bad.

[@PRiMETECHAU]

Except people are not FORCED into using NVIDIA or Intel stuff, but when it comes to OS choice for PC. Your pretty much FORCED into using Windows, Linux is a good choice but lets be real, it has some major shortcomings and requires allot of tweaking and setup to get over some of those. I'm not sure if Apple is forcing their users into using/staying on the platform, the software is available on Windows after-all.

[@Dhruv-qw7jf]

@@PRiMETECHAU so if you're blaming Microsoft for creating the biggest bubble in which people get stuck while using computers, you also gotta blame Apple for doing the same (if not worse) with iOS and iPhones. In fact, today the Apple ecosystem bubble is a lot bigger than the number of users on Windows.

[@PRiMETECHAU]

@@Dhruv-qw7jf Except all apple software is pretty much available on windows also. Not too much that has been gated to ONLY apple OS....

[@Dhruv-qw7jf]

@@PRiMETECHAU MS Office is available on iOS and Android. You know what isn't available though? iMessage. Final Cut Pro. The proprietary lightning port and cable. The removal of headphone jack and the charger and cable in the box, the list goes on. I'm someone who finds brand loyalty to be a bit cringe, but really, how can anyone say Microsoft is anti-competitive while Apple is not?

[@PRiMETECHAU]

@@Dhruv-qw7jf Certainly; I wasn't saying Apple isn't anti-competitive. I was just saying in different areas. I don't like how Apple blocks Vulkan API for example and pushes their own Metal crap.

[@RegErvin]

Thanks for the trip back down memory lane... I remember the early days of M$; one of my favorite DOS programs was killed by their ruthlessness: DesqView. It was a program that allowed you to cut &paste and 'window' dos programs without the needed overhead of more hardware back then. Coming from the world of AIX Unix, I couldn't believe the lax security model of DOS/Windows and was an early adopter of Linux (Slackware 3.2) and that has been my 'daily driver' since. I always find your videos insightful.

[@johnbazaar8440]

For all the reasons you just stated, I have not been a Microsoft fan for 40 years. I use it mostly because I’m stuck with it. Long live Linux. Thank you, Mr Torvalds. Thanks, JohnB

[@madthumbs1564]

Linux Torvalds is NOT a FOSS advocate. I primarily use Linux, but am not entirely pro-foss either. We'd be decades behind if not for proprietary software / MS.

[@shallex5744]

Thank you Mr Stallman

[@shadowopsairman1583]

W98SE, W7 were the best OS MS had, since W8 we became the guinea pigs

[@ryzenforce]

@Clay Gomera Torvalds isn't business. He is an operating system lover.

[@ryzenforce]

@@shallex5744 Yup, with no Stallman, there wouldn't be any Linux.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

There's just a bit of a conflict of interest because its in Microsoft's best interest (or their shareholders) to take some liberties with how it treats its users, liberties that are not in the users best interest, but as long as they keep things low-key enough, they can just bank on people not doing anything about it. To me, its not even worth the headache having to think about, maybe I could trust a stranger in my home, but if I can't be bothered to watch them, why let them in? Linux works fine for me (actually, I love it, but that's not important) and because its FOSS, it can be audited and can come under more scrutiny, so I feel less exploited/exploitable, it sidesteps the whole "the people who make my OS are fundamentally incentivized to screw me" issue.

[@thekillersclan420]

Very well said!

[@RogerBarraud]

Good analogy.

[@breadmoth6443]

hang on , i thought Gary Kildall was killed by getting hit on the head in a bar; the guy who drank himself to death was Phil Katz; the creator of PKZip

[@bentory2002]

yes that is correct

[@mrkitty777]

Bill is very smart, don't let his haircut fool you! George B gave Bill a license to kill. And immunity. Since the judge Thomas Penfield Jackon ruled Gates a murderer comparable with Napoleon Bill just had to buy and replace Clinton.

[@gojeda]

A good video as usual by Chris. What is also striking to me is that if you substitute Microsoft with Apple in alot of his sentences, it would equally apply as well.

[@RuiBarEdits]

Regarding market dominance, Google is doing the same practices, if not even worst.

[@iceManSwag]

I have been using Windows since 1995 although I learned since Windows 98 to use a firewall to control all in & out data going over internet. I decide what I allow to go in & out. Telemetry delete. Add many Microsoft addresses to be blocked by firewall. Microsoft can bypass your HOSTS file. So I'm safe enough. Block all MS Office apps no internet access. Delete MS store & all their bloat apps.

[@orthodoxNPC]

killdall didn't kill himself he died from the complications of a bar fight, wtf man

[@alanelston2330]

I tend to have two main thoughts on things computer technology. _1 keeping older stable software going seems a bit easier than keeping a nice useful trusty old vehicle on the road. I have some incredibly useful stuff working on stable versions of MS office for windows from around 10-15 years ago. I want to keep them going as long as I can. _2 in parallel, I try to keep up with the advantage of newest technology. For that, I mostly look elsewhere, almost never in the direction Microsoft Windows.

[@oidpolar6302]

It's not bad at all, just defective by design

[@Lesterandsons]

Not a little excessive 🙄

[@AMPProf]

Then again when your old sometimes you gotta poop every few hours soo yah

[@RogerBarraud]

So defective is good?

[@ArniesTech]

Windows is an operating system. It's like asking is a Toyota Corolla bad? It is one of many tools to get certain tasks done. It's not better nor worse than anything else. Its all about what needs to be done, when, by whom, under which circumstances etc. A thousand questions to determine good or bad. It's a tool.

[@donaldmickunas8552]

So, you have never had a bad car, television, appliance? By your standard, there is no such thing as a bad product for all of them are tools for one or more purposes.

[@PvtAnonymous]

there is still such a thing as objectively negative stuff. And Windows 10 (and 11 even more so) is objectively bad. It eats up heaps of resources, introduces security holes left and right, takes away user privacy and most importantly users' control over their system. Oh, and it's code design is complete sh*t. So many systems break because of the registry, never seen anything like that on *nix systems.

[@samsh0-q3a]

You're the type to drive Nissan Altima and think nothing of it when the mechanics laugh at you when you pull out of the shop.

[@Andriej69]

Sure, sure, MS shill

[@basilcat3111]

@@Andriej69 He uses linux as well. Whole windows is a tool, it has become increasingly unstable and bad.

[@tylerdean980]

You mentioned the Netscape fiasco, but don't forget that in the DOS days they also prevented Windows from installing on DR-DOS, the superior version of DOS at the time, eventually killing DR-DOS because people thought it was inferior because Windows refused to install on it.

[@GadgeteerZA]

DR-DOS was my DOS back then - remember it having earlier support for extended RAM than MS DOS did. It was definitely superior to MS's product, but we did not realise some of the slimy dealing taking place behind the scenes then...

[@FHBStudio]

I recently permanently switched to Linux. Linux Mint, since it's super simple/easy and ready to go. I had Debian core but I had to install graphics drivers through commandline (while the errors kept bumping it, absolute nightmare). I got Debian core to work but I didn't think it'd be worthwhile over a version that's easier to use. PS Linux Mint has a windows 10 theme.

[@madthumbs1564]

'since it's super simple/easy and ready to go.' - It was frustrating AF for me just getting it to display on the correct monitor, and switch the clock to 12 hour. I could have looked stuff up and resolved issues in a CLI faster.

[@doofnshmirtz5110]

i was like you not too long ago and trust me it gets easier. dont let elitists saying that easy ditros are bad get you down, you're on the right track

[@FHBStudio]

@@madthumbs1564 Yeah, I should put an * to clarify: "Depending on your hardware." For me it was the easiest out of all the distro's I've ever touched. I dislike that it's based on Ubuntu but eh, I'll take it for now.

[@EgnachHelton]

I heard an alternative to dual booting is to install your OSes on a hypervisor like Xen or KVM, which allows you to run both systems at the same time... Pretty please, could you make a video on that subject in future?

[@christopherjackson2157]

I've been experimenting with that on xen for a few months. It can be a bit finicky to configure but I feel its a better solution once it's all set up

[@bthegawd8113]

There are hundreds of videos on that topic alone

[@santiagoglezsrez]

That’s how I run Windows, I run multiple virtual machines on KVM. For Windows 10 and Windows 11 I use single GPU passthrough and performance is nearly as good as having dual boot, but it allows me to boot Arch without having to set up secure boot, and then running my Windows 11 VM with virtualized TPM2.0 and Secure Boot. Most of my games run perfect on these Windows VMs and the only thing that doesn’t work for obvious reasons is Hyper-V, but not like I need it. Fortunately for me there is barely any windows exclusive software I need to run so i barely boot my VM once every month or so.

[@S7EVE_P]

I mainly use Linux, but still use Windows but probably be the last version I need to use as a lot of the software I used to use to programme telecoms systems is now browser/SSH based.

[@chairman67]

Hey Chris, is this relatively new Pluton secured-core something that Linux desktop users need to be worried about further on down the road ?

[@nuvsyes7690]

Yeah, it should be something we should be worried about. Ryzen pro chips cannot run Linux due to Microsoft pluton, basically the firmware wont run any other bootloader than windows. You can disable it in the UEFI, but its Microsoft, a monopolistic profit driven machine, better to not trust it at all.

[@fabricio4794]

@@nuvsyes7690 Boycott the Pluton fill the Factories and companies Mail with Big No No

[@doge7831]

Pluton doesn’t enhance security, everything it does is prevent anything that’s not Windows to boot.

[@ztitchez]

I'm using an Asus ROG g70 i7 4th generation and been thinking about returning to windows but thanks to you I'll keep on Linux Mint since it's the one that has worked a little better for me at the moment

[@blairmurri8741]

I disagree vehemently on security: having been the monopoly os, it's been beat on more than the others. As they rise, they are now registering larger shares of exploits, especially remote, compared to their relative usage. As to privacy, because of telemetry, I do agree with you.

[@Dreigo42]

This was my thought exactly. I'm sure both MacOS, ChromeOS, and any Linux system would be nearly as bad if it had such a target on it from various state actors.

[@basilcat3111]

That's true.

[@miguelborges7913]

Linux is more used than windows, just not on the desktop.

[@HBrooks]

only thing that keeps me using windblows is that adobe apps won't run in linux (for now anyway). sure there's wine or whatever, but try running the newest photoshop under wine and let me know how that goes for you.

[@gwgux]

Is Windows bad? Depending on who they are, I've started telling people that if you have to ask, you need to learn more about how computers work and really dig into what is happening behind the scenes with no end user knowledge of it happening. I've gotten so tired of explaining it over and over again for the last 20 years that I'm taking the "tough love" approach now. However, in their defense, separating FUD from fact online isn't always easy. Also, this was easier to do when computers were not as powerful as they are now and system resources were more scarce so any automated tasks would be very noticeable. Nowadays, even though most modern computers don't have any noticeable slowdown for the average user, most people don't know how much performance they're really leaving on the table with a stock Windows install with all the default settings yet alone how much of their lives is now in the hands of Microsoft as data they are actively selling for profit. The more Microsoft hides away from end users in "advanced" settings or having them manually do things in group policy, the registry, and others, the less people are likely to find out what is actually happening. It's no coincidence that the more they dumb down the user interface with phases like 'better user experience', or 'we make it easier to configure your security settings', or 'we put rounded corners on the Windows' that there are more things that the OS is doing behind the scenes. They are literally using psychological manipulation to hide the truth of what is happening from end users. Microsoft makes their billions by people not being responsible and being complacent. The people(the average people, not the the ones that understood what was really happening) have collectively told Microsoft that they don't want to manage their own computers and digital lives because they're "too busy", or "just don't want to learn that IT crap, there are nerds getting paid for it", or "they'll just replace the darn thing instead of fixing it or getting it fixed", etc. Microsoft, always looking for more money (little things like ethics and legality be damned), responding to the market and encouraged this bad way of thinking and based on their sales (and shady business practices), they brought the state of Windows to where it is today and what a dismal state it is.

[@miguelborges7913]

wow

[@TazzSmk]

simple answer: default Windows settings are BAD simple solution: Microsoft, ffs, make some sort of Installation Assistant as we see it for ex. in Parallels when installing fresh Windows VM on Mac, where people could decide between productivity/sw-development/sw-testing/multimedia-design/gaming and Windows would automatically adjust all its settings accordingly - and also make it possible to adjust such setting cluster anytime later Windows is not a bad system, but it's too much of a compromise to fit everyone's needs it results in mediocre experience no matter what you use it for

[@SMJSmoK]

The thing I really hate how on a new Windows install, the first user is automatically an admin. This is such a dangerous thing in addition to how users behave.

[@ztitchez]

don't forget updates you need to get one by one when using a fresh install from an old iso

[@orkhepaj]

@@SMJSmoK why? and how else could you make another acc if the first is not an admin?:O

[@orkhepaj]

@@ztitchez why would i use old iso?

[@ztitchez]

@@orkhepaj it was the iso that i got when i got this laptop and i didn't like that much to use VM's or use dual booting

[@CF44422]

HE DID NOT KILL HIMSELF On July 8, 1994, at the age of 52,[9] Kildall sustained a head injury at the Franklin Street Bar & Grill, a biker bar in Monterey, California.[33] The exact circumstances of the injury are unclear. Various sources have claimed he fell from a chair, fell down steps, or was assaulted because he had entered the establishment wearing Harley-Davidson leathers.[16] Harold Evans, in They Made America, states that Kildall "stumbled and hit his head" inside the premises, and "was found on the floor.".[7] The initial news reports and police investigation looked at it as a possible homicide. "The coroner's report said the fatal injury may have taken place "as a result of foul play" and the incident was being turned over to the Monterey Police Department. "We're going to investigate it as a possible homicide," said police Sgt. Frank Sollecito. "I'm not going to flat-out say it's a homicide."[34] Following the injury, Kildall was discharged from the hospital twice. He was pronounced dead at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, on July 11, 1994. An autopsy, conducted on July 12, did not conclusively determine the cause of death.[32][4] Evans states that Kildall's head injury triggered a cerebral hemorrhage, causing a blood clot to form inside the skull.[7] A CP/M Usenet FAQ states that Kildall was concussed due to his injury, and died of a heart attack; the connection between the two is unclear

[@colinpotatofamine6183]

Started my Linux Journey around when Vista came out and it just blew. Still stuck using it on work machines, but no personal device runs it any more.

[@urzaaaaa]

How do you do it that your image is so crisp sharp? I had to check that it is really "only" 1080p :)

[@khoirulanam9141]

yes windows is still very bad some bugs even had to cause a reinstall. I'm getting fed up.

[@GalenCrayn]

Would be interesting to hear what you say about Revision OS or ReviOS -a optimized and sleaker version of windows

[@gmt-yt]

I think the Windows kernel is a pretty impressive piece of engineering, but user-space is a sprawling, intractable ball of spaghetti. There are so many frameworks and sub-systems that it surely takes huge manpower just to keep track of it all, much less manage it and keep it all working. As for MS, omg, they used to be, quite literally, evil. When Google said "Don't be evil" it was definitely Microsoft they were talking about, they didn't have to name names for that to be obvious. It was the lies and the dirty tricks they were referring to. I think, frankly, that evil DNA has survived, although it's sort-of been wrapped in plastic and stuffed into a garbage can and hidden in a back room, somewhere. But I think it is still hurting us, mostly indirectly, these days, by just slowing down human technological progress and preventing Microsoft and others from realizing their potential. Personally, to this day, I can't help but hate them a little bit, because of who they used to be. But, even if they are just meh, that's a lot better than it used to be. They were, frankly, a bunch of scumbags and crooks. Not, of course, to a man, but as an organization. They made Oracle look like the Girl Scouts of America, if that makes any sense.

[@djsablab]

Windows itself was never bad for me. They have no any buggy window managers but they have a very extremely annoying EULA' s which makes to be in freedom almost IMPOSSIBLE :( However, Windows is NOT bad but Bill Gates himself is absolutely bad because of the horrifying EULA! I guess you don' t know why EULA is such of important thing for me: Because according a line of EULA: You can NOT modify any part of OS!

[@kage_no_tsuki8078]

Windows security will always be a problem unless the code is rewritten completely from scratch

[@Schattennebel]

Maybe with Windows 12? But I guess not.

[@Schattennebel]

@@litLizard_ I know. It would take much effort to make Microsoft move forward to re-invent Windows from scratch. Much effort and much more money because many programs would have to be rewritten for that new Windows aswell.

[@tylerdean980]

I wish they'd stop half assing their backwards compatibility. A lot of old games and software doesn't run on 10 or 11, yet it's supposed to be one of the big selling points. But these days you have an easier time getting old games working with Wine than you do with Windows' compatibility mode. And if they're not going to make sure that it even works, why leave it baked in just waiting to be exploited? I wonder how many Windows viruses get into the system from compatibility mode

[@kenhildebrandjr8225]

Chris I would really appreciate a bit of a deeper dive into this subject. Also I personally would hope that you would do a video describing the programs that someone that uses Linux but is not a programmer could use to make a transition from Windows (being the platform that has been ingrained in us since "the beginning of time") as simple as possible. Even if you have to do an educational series or tutorial I think that many who watch your videos like myself would find it useful. Thank you for your videos, you are one of the people (reasons) that I have been using Linux as my "daily driver" for a little over 2 years now. I still stumble through like a newb but I can do very basic things, a programmer or super-user I am not.

[@ryzenforce]

Well, like any changes one wants to do in life, start by listing what program you are using on Windows. Then check if they are available on Linux or if there are equivalent. If some are missing, ask yourself if you could live without it ot not. Once you have answered all these questions, you will be able to make an enlighted decision. Good luck!

[@pierrebroccoli.9396]

R.I.P. BeOS - you showed us what computing in a media rich environment could have been like on a Pentium Windows / Microsoft - holding back computing since Windows 95

[@catchnkill]

Actually BeOS is not that dead. A open source rewritten BeOS called Haiku is in beta 3. 32 bit version is backward compatible and run old BeOS softwares.

[@RogerBarraud]

Check out Haiku...

[@RogerBarraud]

Since Win 3.11 at the latest.

[@Dreigo42]

Microsoft has done a lot of things right too. In the enterprise space, Active Directory is king and EVERYTHING worth a damn ties into it or Azure Active Directory. Even Apple supports managed Apple IDs based on Azure AD credentials. Unless that gets viable competition, Windows will continue to be the dominant desktop OS. Period. Besides, most of the security breaches come from mis-configuration, not software holes. And let's touch on telemetry. Telemetry != Bad Some level of telemetry is good and necessary to find problems and fix them. As an enterprise admin, I can capture a lot of that data using desktop analytics and see what apps are being used the most, which ones are crashing, what systems have performance issues, etc. This is a godsend for proactive action. If you rely on users to report issues, nothing gets fixed. Not saying that Microsoft is a golden angel, but I'd trust them orders of magnitude more than I would Google and anything Apple is useless after 5 years. But I wouldn't call the evil either. It's business and in the early 90s, it was a cutthroat one at that. If you weren't willing to get your fists out, you died. Plain and simple. Microsoft just happened to have a mean right hook.

[@ohwow2074]

Ok ok stop right there. It's enough. And YES telemetry is not inherently bad. But the amount of telemetry that Microsoft forces on their users is RIDICULOUS. It's UNACCEPTABLE. So no, MS and Windows suck quite a lot. Their only product that is valuable is active directory.

[@FHBStudio]

It's more like, "how bad is windows?" My stuff is no longer on google/microsoft and that's very nice to know. All I've got left is my youtube account, but I mostly watch animators on here.

[@BobTravellin]

But you didn't really answer the question! Most of the video - and I do enjoy your stuff - was a bit of a rant about Microsoft, its business practices and monopoly building. Yes, it was pertinent and interesting, but had little to do with WINDOWS, the software. So let me have a go. I'm not a techie, I'm just a user of laptops and computers since they came out. I have no idea what goes on under the hood, no idea how to write code or identify and fix bugs and all that stuff. All I want from my OS is a clean, easy to use experience that I can kick off within a few minutes of switching on my new laptop for the first time. I want a browser that lets me do stuff on the internet, and remembers my logins and passwords, either with or without a password manager. I want productivity tools that let me write letters, documents, my blog or whatever, and do the odd presentatilon or spreadsheet (now I'm retired they are less important). They don't need to be MS products, but I want my MS OS to accept and run outside programs without issues. I want to be able to send and receive e-mails from more than one account, none of which are Outlook accounts (gmail and yahoo). I want to be able to store photos and music ripped from CDs or dowmloaded, and listen to Spotify and KZbin Music, or radio stations from countries other than where I live. I want regular upgrades and patches that I can download and deploy easily without having any techie knowledge. And Windows does all that, perfectly. I have a Lenovo laptop that is nearly ten years old, and came with Windows 7. I upgraded to W10 when it came out and I still use it: I can't go to W11 because it seems my machine is not technically advanced enought, but that's fine. I use the Edge browser (the upgraded Chromium one) and it's everything I want and need - and over the years I've tried Chrome (which was my work default before retirement), Firefox three or four times, Opera, vivaldi and most recently Brave and IMO none of them can hold a candle to Edge so I'm staying put. The Windows Mail app handles my Gmail and Yahoo accounts without issue from a single screen, so why bother another mail client? I've been using LibreOffice pretty much since I bought the laptop, mainly because it's free (unlike Microsoft 365) and again it's perfect for me, especially now there are tools embedded that make it look even more like Word etc. I get my updates and install them regularly, and I have never experienced any problems with any updates. And I suspect that the majority of ordinary, non-techie Joe Public computer users are exactly the same as me! Whatever you say about Microsoft the company (and I recognise their ills, but they are what they are.....I can't do anythjing about that anymore than anyone else can), the Windows product - certainly my W10 itereation - does everything Joe Public needs. Painlessly. To that extent: YES, it's good. Not bad.

[@Revenant483]

Yep as an old dude I grew up during this process. There used to be a movie about how 'Slick Willie' Gates stole DOS to sell it as MSDOS. I hate Mickey$oft with a burning passion, that being said I need it to smoothly run some programs that just don't run nice on my Fedora KDE box.

[@basilcat3111]

Which programs?

[@LinkDragon512]

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes

[@b857]

Good video. Windows 11 is the buggiest Win right now, 10 is much more stable, at least it was for me. (Fresh install both, different hardware though. 10 was on a pretty old machine, 11 is running on a new one) Cool SW wallpaper in the background, where did you get it?

[@arvind.b]

As far as security is concerned, every OS is unsecured. It is because there is an incentive to target windows - a large user base so you see a lot of viruses, malware, etc. Still, ~10% of computers run win7 and that is huge. Branding it as an unsecured OS seems foolish IMO. How come iOS is more secure compared to android when both are *nix?

[@MrWarneet]

I spend my time moving people away from Windoze.

[@anishsunkara]

All good points, but which corporate company do you think is better in any aspect that you have pointed out in the video. Every company is only looking for its own good. To say windows is bad for the policies of the company is a little farfetched. With that logic we can't use any product or service from any for profit company

[@jmrverrier]

A 9 minute and 4 second video to say, "Yes".

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

Should probably be noted that around the same time Apple's own elitism forced people to the PC market since the lack of openess and expense meant most people could only afford a PC.

[@linuxstreamer8910]

the reason i hate windows is because forced updates yes you can delay them but at some point they are gonna happen & i never have my pc on when i go to sleep

[@Bawkr]

They may have demons but they definitely had a corporate effort to put together one of the greatest gaming platforms although, that was because of it's widespread availability otherwise something else would have been the platform. It's sad to say as nostalgic as Windows can be it is evil. It's similar to Mc Donald's history although Mc Donald's isn't anywhere near as good as Windows is imo.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

No, but I refuse to use 11. If I want a mobile UI, then I'll use Android.

[@patrxgt9691]

Or ChromeOS

[@PhilipMarcYT]

@@patrxgt9691 I tried ChromeOS on a Chromebook and nearly all bank apps were incompatible with it. 😕

[@PvtAnonymous]

@@patrxgt9691 it that satire?

[@PhilipMarcYT]

@@PvtAnonymous actually, if Android (Play Store) apps were natively compatible with ChromeOS (Chromebook) I wouldn't have sent it back for a refund. It was a pretty decent notebook (by Acer). Google needs to fix this "disconnection" between handhelds and their laptop OS.

[@PvtAnonymous]

@@PhilipMarcYT I tried ChromeOS once and found it horrible. No possible system modifications and really limited. It's like a phone with a keyboard, but worse. I'd actually pick something like a Tab S8 with Dex any time over whatever ChromeOS is supposed to be.

[@AaronM-zh4ug]

Yeah, recently I set up windows for someone and was shocked about the changes I did saw. Around 60% of the ram on a 8 GB system was used at startup. I mean, what? Sure I get unused ram is wasted ram, but surely the OS using more than half the ram of a NEW system at startup is worse. The CPU had some usage, but not that much worse than what I remember. It's not like windows is known for excellent ram management, so unless that person regularly restarts their system, it will likely slow down at some point. I half believe windows does such regular updates with mandatory restarts simply to combat this problem.

[@christopherjackson2157]

Windows isn't bad per se. But it could easily be a lot better. It's really designed to run enterprise office workstations not personal computers. At least that's the impression it gives me after decades of using both it and various Linux distros. And MS has kind of admitted this itself (or at least ex MS execs have): "the purpose of windows was always and will always be to sell more copies of MS office"

[@peterschmidt9942]

For my main laptop at home, I switch between windows and fedora. My going away laptop has windows on it, but I never use it. I've run a couple versions of Linux, but Manjaro is the one that seems to work best on it ATM. It's been working great for months now (but I've also had issues with it in the past on other laptops). As I've gotten more comfortable with Linux, I can see myself updating older project computers I use (like arcades and gaming machines) to running some form of Linux in the future. Once I swap over email from Windows to Linux, I pretty much wont be reliant on Windows at all. I've set my Linux up how I like it and when I go back into Windows to do something, I find I'm thinking Linux'y and just typing searches by clicking the desktop and wondering why it's not working LOL.

[@grumpymcgrump5822]

I was an IBM mainframe COBOL applications programmer. By artificially restricting the development of PC software, Microsoft allowed me to continue my career for at least an extra 10 years. (I'm retired now.)

[@orenjineko646]

Maybe the most legit reasons to use windows are Adobe Photoshop, illustrator, premier. Or a heavy gamer.

[@Kneedragon1962]

Those are roughly my concerns, yeah. Plus a few others. I will say about Microsoft, they are not the most offensive company. Novel Netware made Microsoft look like good guys. I understand Novel now put out their own Linux distro (!) which I don't want to even see ~ I was introduced to Linux and UNIX in 1995, and it's just a massively better mouse-trap. Up until maybe '07 or 08, you could and would struggle a little bit to use it as your daily driver, because there were just so many things that didn't work. But by '09 or '10, it was polished enough to take over from Windows as your (my) primary daily driver, and once I made the move, I pretty much never looked back. I spent about roughly a year ~ year and a half on Ubuntu, and I got the shits with them over Unity, and had a look at Distrowatch, and the #1 distro at the time and had been for years, was Mint, and Mint had a new release out a week earlier, and what made it interesting was they had a thing called Mate ~ which was a fork / continuation / Lazarus re-birth of gnome2 ~ which was my major complaint with Ubuntu of the time. They had gnome3 ~ with their own widgets on it, and it was called Unity, and you simply had no choice. If you're on Ubuntu then you'll use Unity. That's what drove me to Mint and I'm still here and I love it. That's the kind of choice you don't get to make in Windows. If windows decide they're going to (let's say) get rid of the task bar and replace it with a self-hiding docky-thing on the left-side of your screen, then you got no say in the matter. The design of Windows, is what Micro$oft says it is. When Ubuntu try to pull stunts like that, you put on some fresh lippy and you go flirt with Mint. Or Fedora, or Manjaro, or Pop-OS! or something. Vote with your feet, and flash Microsoft the bird every now and then because they deserve it.

[@thekillersclan420]

I am using Linux (almost) exclusively for about 7 months now. But I am using Linux for about a year now. I started out on ZorinOS on my Laptop and then, in January/February also installed it on my PC that at that time had an Nvidia GPU. At some point I got fed up with all the issues I had with Steam and decided to switch to Arch. First install was a pain, because I didn’t rtfm… so I used ArchTitus and then, because I screwed up bad, I decided to reinstall with Archinstall… that went better… In the meantime I had switched my Laptop over to Fedora, but I hated it. (The reason: dnf… can’t stand it). I ended up also installing Arch on my Laptop with also Gnome as DE. But that time I also reinstalled Arch on my PC and did my first custom install… but I bloated it like hell with 3 DEs and reinstalled it multiple times while I was figuring out what I liked most. By the time I built my new PC (which has a 6600XT, which I chose because I don’t like Nvidia and I already was not sure if 6600XT or 3060Ti), I switched to KDE Plasma. I actually cannot believe I was able to use Windows. With all those insane privacy practices. And all the bloat. And all the crashes. I never looked back. The only time I used Windows is when I had to compile a Python project for Windows (but that was inside a VM) and to intentionally destroy it because it is a lot of fun. I also used MacOS, but only for Music and for Coding for iOS. I don’t like the Window management so I wouldn’t daily drive it…

[@willnicholson18]

That's weird. I can't even remember the last time Windows crashed on me. Sure it wasn't your hardware?

[@basilcat3111]

@D Reaper Yep, one person i knew recently wanted to use her computer for arduino ide. The windows updates took 30 minutes!

[@StopTheNewWorldOrder322]

I was actually trying to remember Kildall the other day. My dad was a software engineer and always hated Kill Gates, he told me the story when I was a teen with great contempt for the inferior MS-DOS product that was stolen from Kildall. Your video couldn't have come at a better time. Thanks Chris!

[@ernstoud]

You are misinformed. MS-DOS 1.0 was bought from Tim Paterson. Gary Kildall created CP/M which Microsoft wanted to license but the deal fell through. MS-DOS was not stolen from him. You could argue in hindsight that it was sort of “stolen” from Tim Paterson since he only got USD 75000 for it. So your dad told you an untrue story!

[@StopTheNewWorldOrder322]

@@ernstoud No, Tim copied CP/M and called it UDOS, which Microsoft renamed MS-DOS before making a deal with IBM. The ColdFusion video and Wikipedia plainly state these facts in congruence with my father's story he told me many years before he died. So you are misinformed. Gary was even going to sue over this blatant theft of his software.

[@madthumbs1564]

Differing perspectives. If MS didn't function as the corporation they are (beholding to share holders); we may have to pay for a web browser. Software would be decades behind where it is (as we can see in many FOSS projects) because they better incentivise developers. They gave us an OS that we could run on our own hardware. Personal Computers might still be in the hands of hobbyists and the wealthy if not for Microsoft. While I'm primarily a Linux user; I greatly appreciate what Microsoft has done and understand the 'evils' as a part of doing business. Paid devs on proprietary software could likewise point out the evils of FOSS and how it's undermining them and software advancement.

[@PvtAnonymous]

"as we can see in many FOSS projects". Well, that is almost entirely the fault of monopolies like Apple and Microsoft. If you're incentivized to use macOS (developers for iOS and macOS are stuck there, cuz XCode) or Windows (devs are stuck there because of .NET), there won't be many developers left to even consider Linux and develop for it. What's left, is enthusiasts with a little bit of coding knowledge who write all these smaller projects. And those who do know more start working on the important parts like the kernel or drivers and don't develop small software anymore. There is of course also the lack of money. When you operate on a donation-based model and your user base is like 3% of the whole market, you can imagine that barely any cash will flow in. It's the same cycle that killed Windows Mobile and the PS Vita. If no one uses your system, no developers will come in. If no developers come in, there won't be enough software to make your system usable.

[@madthumbs1564]

@@PvtAnonymous Most FOSS software isn't limited to Linux. -In contrast; it typically runs on more OS's.

[@nvignesh]

For me its worth it staying with Windows because it just works for me, i been on linux distro hopping mode some years back. On linux even though initial setup was working fine after installing apps something used to break even in mint. I ve had to spend more time debugging stuff than actual programming.

[@Anonymous4045]

Might be worth it to try getting mint/the software you want up and running again. Try firing up a vm with virtualbox on windows and test out the stuff, and if everything works now, you can try switching/dual booting

[@orkhepaj]

exactly , linux just needs to much time while on win usually everything just works

[@orkhepaj]

@@Anonymous4045 no it doesnt worth

[@Anonymous4045]

@@orkhepaj Wdym? Also linux "just works" fine, but certain proprietary software lacks support for linux. That isn't the fault of the linux kernel or the OS, but of the developers of that software

[@santiagoglezsrez]

I wonder how many years ago you tried Linux out because I was of a similar thinking for a while, but the abuse of telemetry in windows 10 made me try linux yet once more and wow if it has improved. Stuff like flatpak and appimages makes it super easy to get new software installed even on LTS distros which aim for stability rather than latest software but even on rolling release distros I haven’t had nearly as many issues as I used to 5 years ago when I moved from Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuSE back to Windows. And gaming has changed to the point some games even run better on Linux.

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Telemetry in W7 only occurred after W10 launched

[@PerpetualPreponderer]

I'd really love to use macs, I've tried the new M series systems & they really feel great. BUT THE WINDOW MANAGEMENT is absolutely atrocious. I just cannot take it. It drives me nuts!

[@cronchcrunch]

Use a program like Magnet or Rectangle if you want good Window management on a mac. Rectangle is open source, in case that matters to you.

[@RoastBeefSandwich]

@@cronchcrunch Thank you have not heard of Rectangle until now.

[@hmmm5300]

I was on the verge of buying an M1 MacBook but I decided to try MacOS in a VM and that was my biggest complaint. Window management is plain bad with no excuses. And no, it's Apple being Apple rather than MS patenting it. Third party apps to fix it exist but Linux and Windows are just better.

[@PerpetualPreponderer]

@@hmmm5300 my sibling has a M1 macbook air that i've tried, used it extensively, after switching back to a windows system, i find even the RAM management to be much better on windows. I really don't know why. Perhaps because its not being shared with everything...no idea. But its definitely better on windows, somehow. Weird, considering all the crap that windows is running in the background all the time.

[@RogerBarraud]

@@JelIe I'm sure Apple would love to get into another look-and-feel suit...

[@MILGEO]

So I take it that I won't be able to use my Outlook 2016 desktop version (off line account) later this year! That really sucks as I've been using Outlook for decades and not just for email but as a database with many sub folders for contacting family, friends, business contacts, supply houses, Building departments and many more. Some contacts I don't even have email addresses for! I really don't want a 365 account.

[@denodan]

It's perfectly natural if something g dominates, like windows, will get hacked more, etc. But without windows your limited in software, programs, etc, so basically cannot do without windows

[@itzamedave6242]

I still have a windows 7 ultimate 64 fully updated to EOL with work around still getting updates as of yesterday lol far from dead

[@Gamaliel.]

Hi Chris. Do you have some PowerShell comand to restore Cortana and desable OneDrive? In the new release of your windows optimizer I did not find the option to disable One Driver nor return Cortana. Neither I could make work the July 2021 Update (PowerShell reports an error).

[@AnglesSol]

I think Windows is a great tool, but it’s Microsoft who keeps messing things up like performance and privacy just to gather data from the users and make a profit which is nasty.

[@RaidenKaiser]

Our government is so corrupt now Ms can do whatever the hell they want and get away with it. Apparently it wasn't always like this the ftc and fcc used to do their god damned jobs and protect the people from monopolies like Microsoft windows but sadly that's not the case anymore.

[@justanotherpxrson]

I wish I could just jump to linux man. I want to so bad eventually.

[@tylerdean980]

It only gets better as time goes on. If your reservations are proprietary software that doesn't work on Linux, then by holding back you are preventing that software from coming to Linux, it's a real catch 22

[@justanotherpxrson]

@@tylerdean980 good point... I will have to use a decent vm at the very least. I don't want to give up on music production for good. Plus said piece of software may or may not be pirated ;). But that aside, there are a few proprietary games (that just won't work with proton, anticheats and stuff) that I want to have around. So a minimal dual boot would be an option.

[@tylerdean980]

@@justanotherpxrson I dual boot just because I'm the family's "IT Guy", and you cant reset iphones with iTunes on Linux.

[@justanotherpxrson]

@@tylerdean980 I could easily dual boot, but i just gravitate towards windows when I do that and I hate it.

[@danmar007]

It's not as bad as the former chairman's other "products".

[@Amaqse]

Most buggy system. . . because of updates. . . . yeah right. I am sick and tired of your rose colored glasses. All it took to kill SUSE a month ago was to have "download updates during install" and voila- ramfs exploded, kernel panicked to smithereens. I am sick and tired of people that encounter literal hundreds of issues and bugs in linux that make the system almost unusuable for normal folk, but they like the os so they never count the problems at all. Its 0 for linux, millions of problems for windows. Yeah right. I can install official kde fedora or less official pantheon one and show you usage breakig stuff in 10 minutes straight. Windows being proprietary means every single line of code have at least 4 sets of eyes checking it for errors and malicious content. Eyes that are getting paid for it. Doesn't guarantee that new lines of code wont break some existing functionality or app by accident, they still do every now and then. On the other hand linux code has an average review of what ? 10 %? with sound systems having 70 reviews per 13000 commits? Just because a billion of eys can see the code does not mean they give a damn or that they know what they see. Low usage rates of linux and nerd infighting is Linux blessing and its curse. Its a low priority target. Its a system used by experienced administrators and rich companies, both, generaly hard to harass or steal money from so NOT A GOOD TARGET. The more grandmas switch to linux the more of a target its unreviewed code will be for hackers looking for easy prey. Its only a matter of time.

[@Tzalim]

Is windows bad?! *YES*. Nuff said.

[@vasilispapas482]

I believe that operating systems are extremely complex tools, highly specialized for specific uses. All this complexity in combination with specialization makes those who do not have the necessary knowledge for their correct adjustment and use to blame the tools and those who manufactured them. Let's not forget that both Windows and Linux are based on twenty-year-old kernels with very small changes-improvements. The main advantage of Windows, as far as I know, is the parameterization capabilities they provide, both at the command line level and in a graphical environment, with a multitude of built-in tools such as X-Copy, Robocopy (with the ability to define the number of threads, copy locked folders and files, automatic synchronization of files, creation of exact copies, adding-correcting-removing appdata without rewriting the entire file, transferring files between slow networks, ensuring successful completion of the transfer even after a network outage), Diskpart, PowerShell, Registry Editor, Firewall, Base Filtering Engine, Group Policy, Win to go, REFS pools etc. In addition, various other tools such as Sysinternals suite, MTD etc are provided for free as well as a full range of drivers for almost every peripheral that can be connected to the computer. If now the user-consumer, for financial reasons, instead of an ENTERPRISE or SERVER-EDITION of Windows, uses a HOME or PRO, it is logical to face a lot of problems in the applications he wants to run. Finally, I believe that no operating system provides guaranteed security when connected to a public network. The problem is not Microsoft. The problem is the paper-collars of the marketing department who, it seems, are completely out of touch with technology and computer science, resulting in making completely wrong decisions, with adverse consequences for both customers and and for Microsoft itself (installed Windows 11 less than 8% of computers worldwide) I Wish Microsoft wake up soon!

[@vasilispapas482]

@D Reaper YES! And then i will need a week to conect one printer... but i have more than ten and a few plotters and i`m 60 years old ...So i have no time to spend for fiding drivers for Linux. Thank you very much but i will no take!!

[@beardalaxy]

Literally the only thing keeping me on windows now is their colorblind mode, which is the only accurate colorblind mode in any OS I've come across.

[@AMPProf]

Hmmm ..

[@blackmennewstyle]

"Windows updates" are honestly very bad, not only they often end with troubles but they are forced upon the user :(

[@madthumbs1564]

When updates weren't forced; it was a problem. Even some Linux distributions are taking action against people that don't update because they'll turn around and blame the OS for their problems like they did with Windows.

[@basilcat3111]

Especially when you ave a erious project to do and the windows updates take an eternity!

[@kachilda]

Windows market share has and will continue to drop because people don't want to buy a new pc in order to upgrade to the next Windows version but Windows will pivot and regain much of what they lost.

[@Mocoso7]

Windows is popular because it is popular.

[@nomadvagabond1263]

I hate how they force you with what they want thats the main reason for me to switch to linux. It started on windows 8 where they started forcing update. Like you can boot up ur pc and suddenly it want a update like wtf bro. Plus the slowliness it get. If you boot up a windows 7 its blasingly fast compred to newer versions. And i never knew how slow the windows OSs were until i switched to linux. I still cant understand why dont everyone do it.

[@ozzieggg]

10 had been "not horrible" if I take hours to nuke all the spying and bloat. I refuse to install 11 on bare metal unless some legendary game is made to run exclusively on it.

[@patrxgt9691]

"unless some legendary game is made to run exclusively on it" Just install Linux and Wine. Wine is way better into compatibility with specific version of Windows, than Windows itself.

[@ozzieggg]

@@patrxgt9691 wine has never really given me universal support for the games I actually cared about, even though I tried with multiple versions, prefixes etc

[@ozzieggg]

@@patrxgt9691 add to that the broken-by-design, invasive anti-cheat software that only works on windows

[@orkhepaj]

@@patrxgt9691 no it is not , stop with these blatant lies

[@patrxgt9691]

@@orkhepaj But it is truth. Games made for Windows XP will work better in Wine, than on Windows 10 or 11.

[@atlantroppus]

Yes.

[@TESI303]

Windows 7 and onward has a built-in Keylogger??! Did I hear that right? Is that legal?

[@brianschuetz2614]

I've been using LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office. Every time I try to open a spreadsheet in Windows, it takes forever to load the data. When I open a spreadsheet in LibreOffice on my Linux laptop, it opens instantly showing all the data, no waiting. It's exactly the same kind of data in both cases. Microsoft would have you believe the problem is with the software. I've been playing around with Linux for several years, but my main computer has been Windows based. I'm planning to move my main computer to Linux. I'm not sure which distro I want to use yet. I'm thinking Linux Mint Debian Edition. My laptop has Pop!OS, so that's another one I'm considering. There is no reason anymore for me to stay with MS Windows. The games I want to play can be played on Linux with the right software like Wine and such. I also have the option to run Windows in a VM. I already have a Windows 10 .iso.

[@vincewilson1]

I am currently using Kubuntu 22.04.1 to view this in Firefox version 103.0.2.

[@tylerdean980]

I like LMDE, just know that if you have any hardware that requires proprietary drivers, the "Driver Manager" app is not avalable for Debian Edition, it's Ubuntu only.

[@kenosabi]

Only if you value your privacy and don't like an OS that comes with a keylogger turned on ..by default.

[@andrewnorris5415]

Question about updates. Nala keeps telling me it is holding packages back. I read one solution is to "sudo nala install" each of them and it fixes it. Are there any security (or other) risks I am taking in doing this? Why does nala not offer to do this for me? Forgive me if this is a noob q, I am still fairly new to Linux.

[@donaldmickunas8552]

Apt does this too. In it’s case, they are held because installing the package would require updating other packages which might break the system if I recall correctly.

[@andrewnorris5415]

@@donaldmickunas8552 Thanks, Donald. Nala is a front end for apt so that should apply. Also I read that "sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade" can fix it and may be better than installing them one by one as I said above, as it does not mark them.

[@LovelyAlanna]

it's not really that bad, it's just way too intrussive

[@aldntn]

Well, I started with DOS and really didn't like Windows the first time I saw it. Today though, Windows is it (although I roll with Lubuntu).

[@ernstoud]

Answering the question whether some product is “bad” by only mentioning negative aspects is not answering the question! It is for sure that a standard client OS that “just works” has brought its users a lot of benefits.

[@MFTAQ]

I have a 10 year old desktop that is my only windows device because I have 1 piece of lousy software that I need Windows for every piece of software except my 1 (and windows of course) is open source.

[@davidkachel]

I hate Windows because it is bad for my health! Every time I use it, my spleen suffers. It is so completely counterintuitive and pointlessly complicated, I always end up furious after only a few minutes. Mac OS is my preferred OS since the late 1980s, but Apple has become even more greedy than ever and has now decided to totally lock users out of any and all hardware upgrades, easily doubling or even tripling the actual cost of their computers, so I am dumping them for Linux... less intuitive than Mac but vastly more intuitive than Windows, Linux' biggest roadblock to a far greater desktop share consists of two things: 1. EVERYTHING must be doable via GUI, like on the Mac, with the command line available, but NEVER necessary. 2, A national law must be passed to make it a felony punishable by ten years in prison to begin ANY Linux how-to video or article, with the phrase, "First, open a terminal."

[@basilcat3111]

Luckily kde and gnome are making strides in user-friendliness.

[@williambaldwin9346]

Chris could you do a video showing how to make your own email server/ address plz?

[@donaldmickunas8552]

I guess the answer depends on one’s perspective, values, and overall mental and emotional makeup. These vary from individual to individual. I dumped Windows when Windows 10 came out. I was able to do that. Many can’t due to work or software they depend on. Others fear change and will stay in a bad situation even though the wise move is to leave. I think Windows is bad from my perspective. Opinions vary here too. Too bad Chris chickened out and didn’t give us his answer to the question. Yes or No. I say yes.

[@CalaTec]

I think Windows is on it's worst state ever and getting worst, the opposite can be said about Linux. The thing is, most of my friends/ family don't know/care about all the stuff going on and many use Windows for 4 or 5 specific things and they don't touch their PCs to do anything aside from that, so talking about a whole different operative system to them even if it wouldn't be that hard for them to do those specific things already stresses them.

[@donaldmickunas8552]

@@CalaTec Leaving the known for the unknown is terrifying for many people. They simply cannot do it.

[@thomasschlieter5281]

No, the compatibility with linux is higher. It is only better for new hardware. Using old hardware with win10 or win11 is not possible.

[@phoenixrising4995]

My firewire sound card isn't supported by Windows or Mac, but Linux has an alsa kernel driver for it. LOL! Even my old Epson printer still works with Linux better than Mac or Windows

[@Bob-tx7hv]

Embrace, extend, extinguish. Is that what WSL2 is for?

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great workkkk 🥳 Thank you 💜

[@joshchamplin5652]

I want to learn more about this "Dirty DOS". Nothing comes up when I search.

[@jimrhea5484]

Look up "86-DOS'.

[@crowvampire]

Only I use Windows for gaming, Mac or Linux for develop or office stuffs

[@crowvampire]

@D Reaper I'm Linux fan too, what distribution Linux do you use for gaming?

[@crowvampire]

@D ReaperGreat! I would like play FIFA 22

[@The_Cyber_Nomad]

Gates is definitely evil, but I do like Windows 10.

[@alaanasser3243]

He is a psychopath who wants to give us vaccines and save us to compensate for all the lives he ruthlessly ruined

[@mrright1068]

MS Licensing is very bad! AD is good, SQL is good, tooling is good for managing servers, networking is good, IIS is good, things just work. The bad, licensing, telelmetry, lack of focus or direction, one microsoft is bad. abandoning of tech just as it starts getting adoption, instability in windows gui presention, lack of user control in the gui. The list goes on, and on, and on.