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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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Agreed, you have my sympathies. For work I only need to use Windows in a VM at least, because of shitty tooling from the manufacturer of some of our equipment.
Their support agents also need to use Windows, what they need to do just to get sensible SSH and serial line handling looks annoying.
Here's the kicker. I don't need windows for anything, but the device management software is a few euro cheaper in the windows version.
Windows is a privacy nightmare, but on the other hand it has the by far biggest catalogue of software, including FOSS. The biggest problem is the privacy (less in the EU ^1^) and the huge amount of crap, AI's, services which nobody needs, telemetries, bloatware and trials which include by default slowing down a lot the performance. But all these a advanced user can gut and fix, even if it isn't easy to find all the needed settings in a jungle of indocumented submenus.
In any case Windows permits by far more interactions and settings by the user than a Mac. Best is Linux (not all distros!), but Windows isn't worse than Mac (it's only in it's default settings which everybody and companies use), but the other way arround and way less greedy and commercial centric than Apple, apart with way better compatibilities, Apple is only compatible with Apple.
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Oof! That's even worse.