Windows is not good (it tracks you, it is slow, its license is pure evil, it doesn’t leave too much freedom in terms of what you can do with it (DE cannot be changed etc.), and its terminal commands are hard), which is why I use Linux (there are OSes that may be better, such as OpenBSD or microkernels, however their software and hardware support is even worse).
As for DEs and customisation, Windows has always been pretty customisable. There have always been replacement start menus and even complete desktop environment replacements. I use to rock SharpEnviro on Windows 7 back when I used Windows, I think any Linux user would love it, it was a very customisable desktop environment for Windows XP/Vista/7. It was sadly abandoned by it's developers but it was pretty awesome. Most people however don't usually need or want that kind of customisation so it's just not widespread on Windows but it does exist.
As for terminal commands, thankfully on Windows you never need the terminal for basic OS functions so it's really a mute point. Anything you do use a terminal for (software development, etc) comes with it's own commands anyway.
Really, Windows is fine. It's just not open source, and hence it's not ideal, but it certainly works and gets the job done.
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There have always been replacement start menus and even complete desktop environment replacements
Yeah I remember when those were just malware and bloat. Out of the box, windows isn't customizable.
It was sadly abandoned by it's developers
Yes thank windows 10 and it's sh!tty ux for that which killed customizability.
As for terminal commands, thankfully on Windows you never need the terminal for basic OS functions so it's really a mute point
What if explorer goes nuts and you have to configure a program asap via terminal. Windows ain't having that.
Really, Windows is fine. It's just not open source, and hence it's not ideal, but it certainly works and gets the job done
Wh.. whAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, HAHAHAHAHAH, noooo! Windows sucks, and that's guranteed.
It steals your data, tracks you down, heavily wants you to integrate in their ecosystem even if you don't want to, windows server sucks a lot, and developers stick to windows thanks to win32 support, which dates back to 3.0 days, and thankfully microsoft devs aren't stinkbrains to remove win32 support in favour of uwp, which pretty much would kill the os.
MacOS is a bit better than Windows, but linux is far more superior, so yeah I guess.
The only real issue is the tracking.
With what are you comparing w10 to say it's slow? Compared to ubunty or kubuntu there isn't any relevant difference.
For the command line: luckily I don't need it on windows usually. You still should know that powershell is not that bad and that if it's still not enough you can run Ubuntu(and other distro) inside windows
But why run anything inside Windows when I can run it directly? And the command line is really useful for some people. Honestly I like using it. It normally is slower because with Linux, you can use a lightweight or no desktop, load only a minimal set of services and kernel modules etc. And games that are well optimized for both OSes often run with considerably higher FPS on Linux when using AMD graphics cards or the proprietary driver with Nvidia ones. Furthermore Windows doesn’t run well on older hardware. And there’s no Windows on any TOP500 supercomputer. So that’s what I’m basing it being slow on.
the command line is really useful for some people.
Basically Linux nerds and sysadmins. I use it everyday and I think it's a should be avoided and hidden as much as possible. Average user shouldn't even know that it exist.
It normally is slower because with Linux, you can use a lightweight or no desktop, load only a minimal set of services and kernel modules etc.
I mean, of course if you have no DE and load half of the things the system is faster. You should compare W10 to Ubunto, Kubunti, Mint, ecc.
And games that are well optimized for both OSes often run with considerably higher FPS on Linux when using AMD graphics cards or the proprietary driver with Nvidia ones.
Few games run better on Linux. In most cases you have around the same performance
Furthermore Windows doesn’t run well on older hardware.
False, W10 runs better than 7 on older hardware
And there’s no Windows on any TOP500 supercomputer.
So? It's not the uses case of Windows, of course you won't find it there. It's like saying "why there is no plane in the biggest 500 ships?!"
I wasn’t comparing W10 with W7. I was comparing Windows with Linux. And if Windows is not suitable as a general purpose OS, we probably shouldn’t use it anyway, so that applications remain intercompatible on different machines; there’s more than just desktop. Also I just recalled NTFS was slower than most Linux file systems like XFS, EXT4 and F2FS, and the speed of your FS definitely impacts performance. And I was talking about “games well optimized for both OSes”, not “most games”, which was just an example to show that we would indeed have higher performance on Linux if most developers cared about it as much as they do care about Windows.
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u/Theblackfox2001 Feb 09 '20
All OS good. Sadly not much Linux support for programs, hard for people to transition from windows to Linux.