Reply to post: Re: What's all fuss is about ?

Windows 10 will now automatically download and install on PCs

Chika

Re: What's all fuss is about ?

@Dain

Most Windows users don't really have a choice when you consider that the majority is made up of home users who tick all the boxes without realising what they are ticking and corporate users who are often stuck with whatever the admins say they are going to have and no talking back.

I can agree that Windows 10's layout is an improvement on Windows 8 but that both are heavily flawed by the insistence of Microsoft of having an app-shop type interface. The only improvement there is that W10 does provide it in a more manageable way and provides, whether by design or by accident, a way to switch the damn thing off permanently.

Otherwise Windows 10 is really nothing more than Windows 8 Desktop with a slightly redesigned start panel, a load of online cobbling and various "features" which again are probably more suited to smartphones and tablets than PCs.

The biggest question isn't so much whether Windows 10 is better or worse than Windows 8 but whether it is better or worse than Windows 7 which was the pinnacle of the development of the system since the mid-90s. That and the data slurping.

Mint is a replacement for Windows? Well, I have been vocal enough over the years in trying to keep from siding with one distro over another and in some ways you are correct.

The question, however, isn't so much if Mint (or any other Linux distro) is a replacement for Windows but that it is something that users can use to get what they want to do done without the inconveniences and importunities of a Merkan company that seems hellbent on pissing its consumers off.

Does that answer your question?

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