First post, by keenmaster486
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...Or at least be relegated to the sidelines.
Already, using Microsoft software is unnecessary. I have been using Linux-based operating systems and open-source software on my main computer for years now, and my life has been made infinitely better. On the rare occasion that a program requires Windows and does not work in Wine, I fire up a virtual machine and am quickly reminded of why I made the switch.
When my friends need to borrow my computer, they have never had any problems using it... most likely due to elementaryOS's similarity to the OS X interface and the fact that many things are done in a browser nowadays.
And on that note, I should mention that in Boulder, CO, where I live, I'd be surprised if the statistic wasn't very close to 50/50 for Apple/Microsoft loyalty.
I'm not the biggest fan of OS X myself, but it's better than Windows. The introduction of Windows 10 pushed me even further away - for a while, I used Windows 7 and thought it was adequate if not excellent - but the very idea of an OS as a service, receiving updates ad infinitum instead of new versions, is just repulsive to me. It feels like building a giant playing card tower, just waiting to collapse.
Once in a while, I have to use my sister's computer. It's a shiny, brand-spanking-new top-of-the-line HP laptop - running Windows 10. Slightly better specs than my 2-year-old Dell machine. And yet somehow it struggles to load even the mouse cursor before restarting to install more updates, and when it finally does start up, everything takes about ten times as long as it does on my Linux machine to load. In all complete seriousness, I am not exaggerating.
Does anyone have any thoughts, or do we have any Microsoft fanboys in here willing to refute my opinion?
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