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Nothing in Windows is user-UNfriendly though. Your average user will struggle with linux exponentially more than with windows. For your regular person, Windows is as user friendly as it gets. You plug in a device, any device, and it works. You install a program, any program, and it works. How is linux any more user friendly?
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. Windows can often be pretty hostile to the user. Indeed OP's meme is probably my favourite example. For years now settings on Windows have been oddly divided or duplicated between the 'Settings' app, which a lot of people struggle with, and the Control Panel which many people had grown accustomed to.
Further examples of user un-friendliness:
Some historical examples:
In my honest opinion, the only ways Windows is more user-friendly are not even intrinsic benefits to the operating system they produce. They are:
If you gave someone a pre-installed Linux environment they'd get used to it very quickly. The only thing that's stopping manufacturers like Dell from offering this as an option is that it'd worsen their relationship with Microsoft.
Read and un-tick. Not convoluted or hard. If you care about telemetry (or even know what telemetry is) then you can't call this convoluted or hard.
Office still sells as a standalone version if that's what you want. That's also not a Windows thing.
"Heavy pressure" lol. Most people like this because it gives you things like full background backups of your data and ease of use.
But windows being windows means you can move it wherever you want with third party software.
Good thing edge is installed by default then. Windows Search is intrinsically tied to Bing because that's their search engine, and their browser uses bing by default.
lol come on, this is ridiculous. You don't have to use OneDrive at all.
What "storage bloat"? "Excessive hardware requirements"? lol the language you use is so intentionally inflammatory to try and make even the tiniest thing seem like a show stopper. Most people don't even care about "support" - they run whatever version of windows is on their machine until it dies. Again - if you care about support, you can't complain about this stuff.
It's definitely easier too though.
Windows installs are like 5 mouse clicks lol.
Yeah, because the OS is barebones and useless to most people.
Oh no, you have to log in to a computer that you've just installed windows on? The nerve of these people!
Sure, because it vaguely resembles an old Windows UI. Then they'd start using it and realize that doing anything other than using what's pre-installed is much harder.
I honestly appreciate the effort you've put in to continuing the discussion. I'm happy to concede that I evidently will not get you, personally, to admit that there's a single thing hostile to the user about Microsoft Windows.
I'm just kind of intrigued as to what your experience of Linux is that you're so certain it's not an alternative for Windows? I would like to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you've got some experience with Linux. However, your comments about it being 'barebones' or saying Linux has 'an old Windows UI' make me feel as if you might not have.
Furthermore I'm happy to be sold the positive case for Windows as software. I'll let you know I'd view arguments along the lines of it coming 'pre-installed' more as an endorsement of Microsoft's business practices than Windows as software.