I agree. When someone buy a new windows computer it comes with a lot of unecessary software. Most of this software run in background consuming machine resources. The system is ugly. Many things pop up to screen, except what you really need. System update process is extremely low, time consuming and requires reboot almost all time. It's a big mistake to think that Linux is for advanced users only.
Back in 2020, when the pandemic closed my country, I switched my secondary laptop to Ubuntu 20.04. Then pop!_os (System76 laptops still not available in Pakistan). And since then, I have loved it (How fast my ten-year-old laptop is doing) :) + I am currently your WordPress Premium Theme Development student and plan to follow all your videos related to WordPress Development. Man, you have one of the finest video playlists associated with WordPress development. Love from Pakistan.
Which database client do you use? thats the one reason i am not making complete switch. I have tried table plus on Ubuntu but it does not have complete features.
Once I started Linux, I gradually noticed, how terrible Windows actually is... So yes, I totally agree... Windows is just a fancy shiny nuisance, and Linux is just a working beast.
Mac user, but I would pick Linux over Windows if I had to. Windows UI is just terrible (well documented through the ages), but the people that use Windows all the time have no way of knowing that.
My last Windows was MS Windows XP. Once most of my games ran fine in wine, I moved to Linux 100% and never looked back. Now I buy games that run natively in Linux and the install process is eons ahead compared to Windows (no fiddling with DLL conflict hells, no fiddling with registry conflicts, etc. etc.)
I upgraded from Windows 7 to windows 10 to support my new Nikon camera software and after a few months it started slowing down (I have 64gb of ram) and now it started bugging like crazy : it boots slowly up and then doesn’t allow me to access my programs anymore, all I can do is try to save my files on a hard drive and suddenly it turns into a black screen with only showing up the restart button and internet connected button dow the menu. It’s terribly frustrating, I lost so much time making my own PCS from the age of 20 to 44. It first was fun and now I keep having bugs on windows, I will switch to MAC now
Yes I agree, windows didn't change too much in the last few years. Windows always delivers more of the same and still this problem of running background programming leak memory and the continuous update that pops up at least once a day
Those background processes always frustrated me. No matter what am doing, I always have the task manager running just to kill those random services that spawn out of nowhere
ok, I agree that Windows isn't the best OS ever, but I find the points criticised a bit weak here. saying the colours are too much and the buttons and toolbars are too big without giving any concrete criticism makes me wonder what exactly you mean. The colour for the icons in your explorer sidebar for example let you quickly discern what folder it is and therefore get faster to your desired destination. Same for the new settings. Next you say that it doesn't change. I think Windows 11 changed a lot of things compared to XP or even Windows 7, but there are also learnt patterns that are arguably bad UI (e.g. hamburger button on Android) but that users have gotten so familiar with you can't just throw them out from one OS iteration to the next. Not to mention that when using other operating systems like MacOS the explorer (or finder I guess) doesn't function that different at least from my experience. At least back then when I got my MacBook I felt right at home. You say Windows constantly sends you annoying notifications, but personally I cannot relate and I haven't really done anything about it. Yes it does give you a few after updates or on a fresh install as part of its user on-boarding but I wouldn't call that necessarily bad. What is bad is that they try to advertise their own apps, though that isn't a Windows exclusive. Hell I would say Apple can be even more restrictive in that regard. That is a dark pattern for all companies that are trying to sell you something. Even Mozilla are trying to sell me Mozilla VPN with every firefox update (even though I ALREADY HAVE IT). The only exception may be Linux here. Even then, I have Firefox as my standard browser and I maybe get an edge advert every half a year ... which, while still 2 times per year too much, isn't as bad as you make it sound imo. Saying it would be slower is also very subjective. Back on intel days windows was often quite a lot faster than e.g. MacOS in some scenarios. Heck the iMac even thermal throttles and it is a desktop PC lol. The new ARM chips are a different story but that is just beast hardware. In general I mostly just notice the difference between what framerate the screen has when I switch between MacOS and Windows. I feel like Windows has some low hanging fruit you could have criticised instead, like: - inconsistent UI (settings app vs. control panel vs. windows 10 design in the mail app) - no tabs in file explorer even though it has been requested for ages - apps don't open on the screen where you clicked the icon (though MacOS does that as well ... don't know about Linux) - Clicking something that opens in browser while using virtual desktops switches you to the virtual desktop where you already have a browser open, making them essentially useless (though MacOS at least does that as well) - The taskbar being super buggy when set to auto-hide - etc. All in all I think Windows is far from perfect but as always: the grass isn't much greener on the other side (at least from my experience having used MacOS extensively and a bit of Linux here and there). The biggest issue of Windows currently is that the UI is in a constant "half modernised" state, lacking consistency more so than MacOS at least, Linux probably depends on what distro and / or GUI you use. But Windows has it's advantages as well: - Amazing backwards compatibility. Some ages old programs just run on the newest version of Windows - Good Window management out of the box (at least compared to MacOS lol) - A plethora of applications available - etc.
Personally, I think Micro$oft is pushing its users away to other operating systems, for some reason. Maybe they want to control GNU/Linux from the background as a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation; become another IBM?
The biggest mistake people make is they want Linux to be like Windows, and when it isn't like Windows they say it's hard to use. Mainstream Linux distributions are not hard to use at all, but they are not like Windows, BY DESIGN they are not like Windows and this is a very GOOD THING. By their logic they want to leave Windows because it is terrible but then want what they move to be like the thing they are leaving. It makes no sense and it never will.
I think you got many things right, but some characterizations are misleading in that I think the competition isn't any better. So sure Windows isn't exactly minimal. But the minimal interface is the Taskbar and you can hide it if you want. On Mac OS you have a permanent menu bar and dock. Gnome is a little better with only a top bar. Though that one is mostly useless. Yes, Windows itself isn't super snappy. Updates take forever. Windows own apps are often quite laggy. But then again. My most common app the Browser isn't faster anywhere else and neither are the myriad of browser based apps I use, e.g. Discord, VSCode and Spotify. I run Windows on a midrange 6 year old desktop processor and a 5 year old laptop whose CPU has a TDP of 15W and it runs fine. The annoyances of Microsoft nagging you to try, buy and use stuff is real. But as someone living with todays advertisement driven internet economy, this feels harmless. I also want to point out that the upside to Windows' cluttered and disjointed UI is, that there is a UI for most things you want to do. On Linux you have to drop down to the command line very quickly and on Mac OS things are often just not possible. The counter to that is Microsoft's UI isn't just badly designed, it's broken. There isn't a single animation in Windows that isn't super glitchy.
The #1 reason it's terrible (for me) is the user-unfriendly design of it. If you're looking for something, it's not where you expect it to be, and you have to click an unnecessary number of times to get there.
I'm a Windows user (Win 8.1). I live in Sweden and almost every job is in .NET and the Azure world. Everyone works in Windows job wise. Next problem is that I use my computer for music and I have compared a lot. Last year I compared and a Mac computer that don't even gives me the same (power and program choice) as in a Windows computer and the Mac is extremely much more expensive. I can't afford that. And Linux for serious music use is not to think about. I did have a job as an embedded programmer. C++ and Linux Mint was the setup. I liked that. However everything you say about Windows and it's development is true. That's the sad part of it. They have the knowledge to create the best OP and they mess it up som much. For about 10 years ago there was a guy who did a pirate version of Windows 7 that was really good. He removed all the crap (not just the normal tweaking) and it was like swimming with the current and not against it (the normal Win use).
I agree on a few points, mostly on UI inconsistency, but I pretty much disagree on everything else. Most issues you mentioned seem to come from a place of MacOS habit. No OS is perfect, but windows is not a bad OS. I didn't try win 11, it seems to be a little pushy with ist own stuff but that is what always happens with a new version of the OS, as time goes on it will be tuned down like it happened with Win10. The thing I most disagree with is the speed argument. I'm a lead UX designer and I work with people who think they have to use macs, so I need to use a Mac every now and then, and it feels so much slower compared to when I use Win10, and it feels so even when my Mac proficient colleagues use it in front of me. On win10 I don't have to fight with messy windows management, useless animations, intentional breaking of ux basic rules (cuz... think different). One last thing is that it's kinda pointless to say that windows is bad out of the box since the fact that it's more customizable and gives me a lot of control is the main reason I use it. I do so many things I couldn't on Mac OS, and I think that should be taken in consideration before claiming what's on the click baity thumbnail of this vid (btw it worked like a charm) 😂
If you like speed, usability and reliability you should really try linux, it will run blazing fast on old hardware, will never freeze you from whatever you're doing to update. You can add custom shortcuts to everything you do. Windows feels clunky bloated(uses too much ram + cpu) and has too many things that you would never use.
@@rohanjamadagni I do like linux for the reasons you mentioned... but most of the software I use is not available on linux. Also... I game on my PC a lot. Either way I much prefer Linux over MacOS. I had a mac once, and I needed to install a fan control software in order to avoid intentional CPU thermal throttling for the sake of quietness...
@@Akusen_Arcade The gaming scene is pretty good on linux now with the proton and steam deck coming out. The Adobe apps don't work, but things like davinci resolve, krita, gimp, blender are great alternatives that do work. I do get your point, macos is pretty much a trackpad oriented os and is pretty good if you can't plug in an external mouse.
Hey, click baity gotta click bait :P Thanks for your comment. As I said at the beginning of the video, these are my personal opinion, and if Windows works great for you, awesome! We can all be friends :D
@@alecaddd certo, ci mancherebbe 👍 ho solo espresso la mia opinione. In fin dei conti l'importante è che ognuno utilizzi l'OS che gli provoca meno stress😂
Look at the old Windows NT 3.11, 3.51, or NT4.0 or Windows 2003 server.. they are tiny, use very little ram and run just fine on 486 and pentium 3 processors with 256MB of ram. Yes, Exchange Server running with 256MB of RAM. Today's Windows 10, good god don't even try to run on anything more than 2 years old. The reason hardware is getting faster and bigger is to support the bloating OS.
My frustration is that Windows keeps changing the menus for making desired changes. It's so bad that I don't even bother watching how-to videos that are more than a year old, because they usually are no longer relevant.
I am using Windows 7 in 2021 because I have old hardware and Windows supports all the software I need. I hate newer versions of Windows because of the same problems you mentioned. I have tried using Mac OS and Linux (I think Xubuntu, Linux Mint are the best), but in any case it is more comfortable for me to work with Windows. I generally work as a WordPress developer on Upwork (Top Rated Plus Freelancer)
I think you have nailed it. I never thought of it like that before, windows is not an OS, it's just a mass commercial product to be marketed, like Coca Cola and Pepsi. That concept proves the genius of Bill Gates. He certainly knew what he was doing. That also explains why Microsoft were never great innovators, always followers.
The multiple ux and ui paradigms bug me the most. With all Microsoft resources they couldn't seperate the apps from their gui as osx and linux does. A new Mac update or Gnome release doesn't force programs to run in the old style but Windoze is littered with examples of programs which are out of place. It's visually a mess.
I feel the same, sadly I need windows for use ms office and power bi and other ms products, I ended with two computers because virtualization on mac is not great either.
I don't understand why people use windows, it's unusable. I tried copying a 1GB folder and it was stuck for 30 mins. FYI - I use linux just had to get on windows to get my school stuff out. To copy a folder recursively you have to do all kinds of Flags Copy-ITEM -path -Destination -Recursive and even then there are errors in linux 'cp -r source/ dest/' you're done.
@@bolajitaiwo9032 I'm not spreading hate, just giving my experience with it. I agree with you I don't know how to use it cause I've been on power user operating systems for the past 20 years and the few times I've used it it's crashed with the blue screen.
I’ve tried to internalize why I dislike PC gaming and I think you’ve described my thoughts on why I can’t stand gaming on a PC. The operating system (Windows) tries to put itself between your apps and you. And the Windows also doesn’t enforce any kind of runtime restrictions on apps beyond memory protection. A developer is free to install all kinds of background processes that do whatever and are invisible to the user. There’s no enforcement whatsoever. Contrast this to iOS or a game console where game developers cannot just install background tasks. Consoles enforce formalities that benefit the end user by keeping processes honest. iPhones do too. I want both worlds. Stay out of my way, allow me to do anything I want, but don’t allow others free access to my machine when I install their app. This is why Windows is a terrible operating system. It lets companies do whatever they want with my hardware.
My issue with windows recently was the Licensing of this software which is a nightmare =( I recently upgraded my PC from a i7 5820k to an Risen 2700x and decided to install Windows 11. My computer ran hotter vs Windows 10 on this CPU which I tested and then when I finally upgraded my hard drive I had to reactivate which is BS in my opinion. when through ever step and to find out my digital license is not valid since I already re-activated it on this PC before....So now it says I must buy a new key!! Fuck Windows I'm finally done and going back to Ubuntu and on my laptop. sorry but at least on the XBOX it less BS but still BS though and that's they only way I will ever allow MS in my house again. Good video
I want to switch from windows to linux and have manjaro gnome 40 on a SSD with USB cable. On linux, I did not get davinci resolve to work. It's a problem with the GPU drivers. I have intel integrated GPU + nvidia. Maybe it can be done but I didn't succeed. Another is photoshop. Use Gimp you say but e.g. unsharp mask on Gimp was garbage so yeah.. Stuck on windows for now. I hate it. It's always doing work in the background I did not tell my machine to do. For all I know it could be mining crypto..
You have to manually install official Nvidia drivers. As they are not open source, they can't be integrated into the kernel and you will most probably have to tweak some settings for Nvidia graphics to work as intended.
@@johndumpling1896, I did install the proprietary nvidia drivers via Manjaro GUI (hardware configuration I think). Maybe like you say actually downloading the drivers from nvidia website is better? I also messed around with installing the drivers via Manjaro package manager GUI. DVR did actually start but it could not find openCL or GL. At any rate, thanks for the pointers :)
@@alecaddd what are you talking about? I am a js programmer with 30 years of experience. 244hz is the best for webdev. Now I'm thinking about switching to a 400hz one.
Well, I love my Linux Desktop. If something doesn't work, it's because of an technical issue I can fix or at least contribute to fix. If something on Windows doesn't work it might be because someone with an MBA made a decision that it should not work... I'm not willing to wast life time to solve issues that MBA guys artificially created...
my problem with windows is it's just too complex and a hog. slow to boot, slow to update, endless security issues, major inconsistencies between old control panel, new 'settings', need for cmd/powershell for many things, etc. just too much. and i'm a developer so the tech side isn't an obstacle. macos isn't great either, certainly not for people not used to it, it's no simpler than windows. i like my ipad best.
There's no reasonable explanation for the slowness other than MS running a kind of botnet / total surveillance machine connected to AI on every internet connected pc running windows.
It feels like Windows is always requires the latest hardware: it boots super fast from NVMe drive on my machine i7-12700K. I have no complains about speed or stability right now. However in a year or two it will become slower due to tons of garbage collected by the system. Unfortunately t's not practical to reinstall operating system every 2 weeks anymore like I did with Windows 95/98/2000/XP.
'oh, you don't want to install our updates because you're busy? Let's clog your internet bandwidth to download updates then blue screen you whilst doing something important'
I'm personally thinking of switching to Linux (not sure of which distro yet) instead of going for Win11. That or settle for Win10 again. Win7 was my personal favorite.
I can recommend Zorin OS - suitable for Windows users, as the user interface is very similar. Also - looks really great and they have amazing app compatibility.
uh. the last amount of arguments can also be said in greater extent of mac Os .. not really an argument when you clearly are using the screens in the background to make the silent comparison. do agree in some of the things like bad garbage collection and the fact it does not really shut down but more does a hibernation unless restarting etc, but most of your other gripes are with the interface not being macOS as well.. those are user preferences not a measurable issue with an OS. it is also reflected in the comments too.. almost all user preferences.. but none of those make any OS objectively good or bad. as for background processes all OS have them running but windows make them more visible and has them separated more..
Completely terrible. I have tried HP, dell, microsoft laptop. There is always so much problems. The camera would just stop working. If you use it for zoom it just hangs unending. if you use face idea just watch out for it to fail every 3 days. It is so so bad! it doesnt matter which computer it is or how high the specs are.
Still, win10 is compatible with majority of all desktop apps. You can't run games on other OS because it's suitable for Windows OS. yes it's bloated but better then games crashes or won't even start because lack of drivers compatibility.
I will probably switch to macOS. I used to use Windows, until I started dualbooting elementary OS, and I fell in love with it. Sadly, the Affinity design suite is not available and I frequently discover many small problems (like the unability to drag SVGs to Figma). I don't like Apple, but they know how to make a reliable and good looking operating system. I wish you luck with Akira, hopefully you succeed and when I come back to Linux after a couple of years, the app and reliability situation will be better.
I've worked for 39 years in the IT industry and I can say that Microsoft Windows, in it's various forms, is the worst operating system I have ever used. The best operating systems were always some UNIX variant.
you can really fix most of those issues with windows10 if you just change preferences. Out of the box, windows looks bloated, sure. But you can turn off a lot of stuff you dont need.
That's why I said at the beginning of the video that I'm not changing any settings since the average user doesn't know how to do that and mostly doesn't care. The default settings of Windows are not great.
You are right! Microsoft succeeded only because they were first and not because they were the best. but I still use Windows on daily bases although Linux is in my in my disposal as well just use it much less.
The only OS that really always worked for me is Windows. I just can't afford to have an IMac or repair an IMac from Cuba, and I guess that's the case with the majority of people in the world. I had to learn a lot of technical stuff with Linux, for example as power user, and that's not going to work for everybody, so Linux is too complicated for a lot of things. Windows just works out of the box, and have more apps, including the open source ones than any Linux distro, and is easier than any Linux distro. I have Linux, and I love it, but always comeback to Windows, even to play local music and movies, is better. The economic context is fundamental, although, I understand your point, but those are just Windows flaws that I even don't notice since you mentioned it to me. Except the obligated updates, that's unbearable, I have an app that locks them. 💙
Be more specific and show visually more details to support your arguments. Mac OS has its own GUI logic that was designed based on. very objective reasons while Windows seems to not have (Mac ‘s choice bar at the top on every app is because of the infinite factor of throwing the cursor to the limits of the screen being easier to chose something instead of having all dimensions and the targeting of a choice be harder since you have to aim the cursor on a specific point like in windows, without having a line to aim before you point to the target choice). Get into those GUI details and compare OSes. Other than that it will always be just an opinion, not an educated one
No it's not. In Windows - everything just works. In Linux, small things require many operations. There is no "the best" OS. Windows is the best in field A. Linux is the best in field B. I have both of them. It's just a preference. Should I say that Thunderbird is piece of trash, because its UI is bad (it really is)? No. Same thing with UI in any OS.
Good thing I said that these are simply my personal opinions at the beginning of the video :P And anyway, Thunderbird UI is very bad, and also the UX it's very inconsistent and outdated, that's what I'm working on to improve. I never said Windows is a piece of trash, I'm simply listing the frustrating aspects of an operating system used by 95% of the users in the world and developed by one of the richest company in the world.
I am not a fan of windows by any means but your description seemed too hyperbolic... and if we compare windows with mac os by your standards then mac os is even worse except for decent ui. Linux is fine but it still doesnt have a lot of crucial applications(or has terrible alternatives) that windows has to live comfortabily.
Which points are you referring to? I talked about a lot of things. I personally never experienced in any other OS the level of bloatware of default apps, intrusive notifications, confusing multi-layers system settings, and slow background process I experienced in Windows.
Windows 10, Windows 11 ... are bloated, slow, buggy, disk grinding crap. In year 2024, a tech person might think that Microsoft ... the giant ... would have corrected the nasty problems that are built deep into its massive, bloated software. The worst problem persists: it's never ending startup delays. Windows spends anywhere from five to fifteen minutes GRINDING on the OS disk, performing seemingly irrelevant and never ending "update checks" and "anti-malware" checks and "anti-virus" checks etc etc. Really? Worse, it is materially IMPOSSIBLE to move user data and/or programs to an "alternate" disk unit so as to isolate the Windows "turd counting" from the need for the user to have fast, efficient I/O to their data and programs. Come on, Microsoft! No matter how much MEMORY or DISK or I/O performance you are given, you drag the computer to its slowest possible performance. The ONLY reason I use Windows at home is because my employer used Windows and I didn't want to have two separate machines. I now seriously regret that decision, and wish I'd gone with Apple years ago.
I got off the Windows train at Vista. Disliked Macs initially because I was a life long Windows user, but then one day I was doing something on a Mac and realized how much easier it was if I had to do the same thing on a PC, and that's when it started to click for me. The Windows UI is sooo inconsistent, at times dense, and the latest had ads that you have to turn off. Windows is better some some things (gaming, some VFX areas etc), but I wouldn't use Windows as a daily OS if given a choice, which is why I no longer do.
@@alecaddd Nothing to be afraid of. If I can do it, believe me, with how good you are at software you can too. It's like crafting something magical that will help you day to day
Do know why there's so much hate for Windows... 80% of the world runs it. Windows is for users who want technical details and 5 ways to do the same thing; if you're business is running an art house or a florist... use Mac.
I think your videos are usually great but I think this one is somewhat overstated. Quite frankly when I am developing code I don't feel there is much in it. It's the application that matter that makes one productive, not the desktop. The intrusive elements really happen rarely. I used both. Linux since 1993. Never had too much problem with windows. No blue screen since windows XP on my systems :) I actually think on my machines which are pretty beefy, windows GUI elements feel more responsive than anything in X , one needs at least Wayland to get similar smoothness in GNOME or Elementary, though Qt is faster than anything GTK based in feeling to me, this is not too surprising, since windows controls GUI elements in kernel space, unlike the rather slow high latency client server model of X in user space, background processes aside. GTK is not a well optimized software/toolkit on which many desktops are based. I've written several benchmarks what happens when you throw heavy duty at it, it doesn't cope well at all, though Qt sails through them, so there is at least one good performer that can do heavy duty stuff.
Thanks for the comment. Your overview is very valid, but I think you misunderstood a little bit the point of my video. I never compared Windows with Linux or macOS, I didn't even mention them once in the video. I also specifically avoided talking about anything code related, or GUI toolkits, or display servers. The core topic of the video is a list of personal opinions based on UX analysis of an average user using a laptop with Windows preinstalled. You obviously have great knowledge on the matter and you know your way around prefs and optimizations, as well as having a beefy hardware at your disposal, but that's your experience based on your personal knowledge and opinion. Here, I was simply listing the average experience of a non tech guy. Cheers,
I wasn't doing a comparison between OSs, I was simply highlighting the issues I've been personally experiencing while using windows. Thanks for the comment.
Mwale: Macs are almost universally considered more user friendly than Windows (goole it). Maybe you feel this way because Windows use is ingrained in your brain so it is difficult of you to learn another OS. But no, generally Macs are not worse or less user friendly than Windows. The opposite.
@@unemployicus you are probably right about me being biased. My first machine was running Windows and I used it for 8 years. But you might be biased to. 😉
@@mwalek I was a Windows user first, so I speak from experience. People like what they know. It doesn't necessarily means that its better. PCs are good too though. To each his own 🙂 and thanks for being such a nice dude
I bet most of you used linux without pro peripherals like studio audio cards, wacom tablets, professional printers… and so on. If you did, you would know how linux is terrible
Use Wacom on Windows and you'll know how bad the behavior is, Windows Ink sucks! 😅 in Linux at least it works like I want it to but Windows 10 + Wacom tablet? No thanks!
When pro peripherals don't work properly under Linux, it is not because Linux is terrible, but because the manufacturer does not bother to support Linux properly like they do windows. Linux itself is perfectly capable to be used in a professional setting with pro peripherals and many use Linux like that.
A channel for Linux fanboys, what do yo expect. Really funny listening the same, windows sucks, windows is dead, linux is going to kill it for over 2 decades ROFL
