I work with the government of my country. We went from AIX back in 1996/1997 to Windows 2000 to SLED Linux 10 to Windows 7 to, now, Windows 10.
When I informed why they went Microsoft again, the reply I got was that they had asked Microsoft for the best way to "uniformize" the computer systems. I still don't know if that was a joke or if they meant it (I suspect the latter).
In 8 years of SLED Linux 10, we never had any problems (no wait, sometimes we could not open a PDF file - SLED Linux was never ever updated), but it worked just fine.
Then they got Windows 7, and now Windows 10.
I am the local "sysadmin" at work (the "LPU"), and in those 8 years of SLED Linux I have never had to call the IT Helpdesk as often as with Windows 7 and Windows 10.
In the latest Windows 10 build (1703, I believe) the start menu is no longer user configurable (an Active Directory issue?). When I complained, I got a reply that they are working with Microsoft on it. (Right.). My other colleagues don't care, but as a "power user" I am PISSED as hell. The Windows 10 start menu not only is horrible (which f***ing !*%§# of a developer at Microsoft came up with that start menu??), and now I am stuck with a start menu that I cannot change to my liking. (Why do I need shortcuts to the MS Office programs both in the "All apps" side AND in that stupid-squares side on the right? And I "hate" that MS Office ribbon. Luckily there are portable programs, which one is officially not supposed to use as it's not allowed to install software, but they can just go to hell with their Microsoft programs.)
I also got some FUD about Windows being cheaper and easier to use and to maintain than Linux. Right
I "hate" Microsoft Windows. It is the most unreliable thing that I have ever worked with in my entire life. It is crap.
When I AGAIN had problems with Windows, back at the end of 2004, I was so angry that I went and bought a Mac. After two weeks of Mac OSX with my iMac G5 (first Panther, later Tiger), I was wondering how the hell I had been able to tolerate Microsoft Windows for so long.
In my opinion, OS X is Apple's greatest invention.
And Linus Torvalds deserves a statue of at least 5 meters on every continent for having given us Linux.
I don't understand that there are people that honestly believe that Windows is good. I am "testing" Windows 10 on one of my main computers for a month or two now (still not registered), and that too gives me hassles. It feels as if the problems with Windows just keep coming back in every Windows version. In the 11 years of using Linux, I have never had as many problems as with Windows.
Everybody here knows how easy and fast updating Linux goes. Click-click (or tap-tap) and WOOSH. Well, in Windows it took and takes AGES, and you have to reboot every time (nearly). (And then I will not mention this "memory leak" bug that Windows Update had in Vista and in Windows 7. I have never encountered a problem in Linux update, ever.)
I am still using Windows Vista (which is nearly not as bad as everyone says - perhaps I have faulty installation disks [/sarcasm]), mainly because of "CorelDRAW Graphics Suite" (eat that, GIMP). On one of my main computers, Vista (64-bit) and Windows 10 run in dual boot. While with Linux I just installed GRUB and it works, it took me about a WEEK to get the Windows 10 bootloader to work properly.
As for Microsoft and their software: Microsoft is so bad that even their (Windows 10) bootloader is worse than the Linux bootloader. In GRUB you just choose what OS, and it starts. With the Windows 10 bootloader, when I choose to start Vista, the computer REBOOTS and will THEN boot Vista.
Why is it that a bunch of programmers can make a Linux distro that is so amazing, while a huge and rich corporation like Microsoft can come with something like Microsoft Windows? Do their programmers not have the same issues and problems that Windows users have? I mean, WTF?
And I have to stop typing, cos I get all upset. Microsoft Windows is crap (that is: compared to Linux and to macOS X). Crap, crap, crap. Aaaargh. My apologies for ranting. I need to go meditate now.
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The Windows haiku
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"Yesterday it worked.
Today it does not work.
Windows is like that."