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Originally Posted by Carth
oh come on, if it's just used for emails, web browsing, playing a few audio files, and playing a few basic games why does it matter?
At least he's not brought into the whole " Windows 10 is brilliant and your world will crash without it" thing 
It works for what it's used for, that's all that matters |
security patching, software support and hardware support being the best reasons. Why not use any free distro of linux? it will be regularly patched, will have support for the latest hardware and easily be able to do all of the above. And these days, it's as easy as Windows to use for those worried about any huge changes. In a number of areas, such as software and OS installs / patching, it's actually easier.
Personally, I dislike Windows 10. It's a confused OS which has parts from the W7 era, others from W8 and then the newer W10 elements as well. MS keep moving things about and trying to dumb-down accessiblity to granular controls, meaning unless you know where you are going, you'll have a hard time finding things (e.g., control panel options where you get better administration over the system than you do from the newer 'flat / crayon' designed interfaces which are the default control option pages now). It's also whoring itself to advertisements, which are creeping in. Not to mention it's endless list of vulnerabilities that come to the fore on a monthly basis - the latest biggy being an EXE which actually uses Windows to install itself into UEFI, meaning even a system reinstall doesn't get rid of it, and it places itself back onto Windows once rebuilt!
I use it on one machine because of gaming and photoshop. I have linux installed on my other home devices, using a mix of RasPi, Mint and Elementary. If linux could run all the games I play natively (and Proton is really picking up pace now, which is great), and Photoshop was available (Gimp is just horrible), I would remove W10 from my home as it would provide nothing more over Linux for me (WINE can be a bit picky about certain applications).
Apple is just beyond overpriced for what you get and although it would be easy enough to go and buy desktops and laptops from them, I begrudge spending that kind of money on them.
So as I say, the reason I commented on the use of 98SE is down to security (mainly) and support of SW and HW. There's no need for rolly eyes - there are legitimate reasons why not to use 98SE.