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by menshiki 925 days ago
What sane person would willingly use Microsoft's software?
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With a little savviness most of it has workarounds, and at least for custom pc builds it's still the easiest OS to deal with. I do wish there were more OS options with support for latest hardware without needing to manually deal with drivers.
Windows is the most frustrating software to deal with in regard to anything. Want a dumb browser for Fac ebook, Youtube, and Google? Get a Chromebook. There is not Windows excels at that a user would want.
Many people, including tech professionals.

I’ve been an engineer for over a decade, have setup various flavors of Linux throughout my various machines, use Linux at work and for various tasks. But I still happily installed win11 on my latest PC build and am enjoying it as an OS.

Why? Simple answer. Windows is comfortable and, most importantly, everything just works. I don’t have to go hunting for drivers or worry about my hardware. It being supported on my current flavor of Linux. When I sit down to use my personal machine, I want it to just work, not to have to tinker with it to get the latest video game to play.

Windows is the Toyota Corolla of OSes. It just plain works, with everything.

Billions of people.
do they willingly use it?

having IT provide Windows, Edge and Outlook installed on some awful underspecced HP box doesn't count

Most regular folk use the tools that come with the computer. That means running Microsoft.
The question is whether they would choose something else if given the choice.
Most probably won't. I think you're greatly overestimating the technical chops of the average PC user.
Probably not as better the devil you know. The alternative is scary to most.
Exactly. Most office workers don't really have a choice. Someone in the corporate hierarchy decided to get the Office 365 subscription because that way everything would come bundled up together.