canneddirt
mccIs it possible that Microsoft Windows is not a very good computer program
Taking Concerta'd Action@mcc yeah
Tock@mcc It is pretty sad.
In 2015, Windows acknowledged a 30 Year Anniversary. After missteps with Windows 8, also announces Windows 10 being a free upgrade for all Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users.
The question: right now nobody will celebrate a 50th anniversary of Windows (the 40th was last November, did anyone notice), but with Microsoft renaming everything as CoPilot, will Windows even exist by then?
Guillotine Jones, Flâneur
Conny Nasch
Deb Nam-Krane@mcc That's crazy talk
Resistor McResistanceFace"the only desktop that comes with a Russian STD" - Bill Gates's sad blue face
kit@mcc all things are possible, I suppose, in an infinite universe. 3.11 might have been OK, and there were rumours of POSIX compliance in one of the early NT based versions, though which one escapes me, just at the moment.
MimiReminder
Too big & too old to be a trustful thing:
1- The complexity of a program increases until it exceeds the capabilities of the teams responsible for its maintenance. (done since the beginning, a common thing with stolen stuffs)
2- A bug free program is an obsolete one.
- Murphy's Law -
Captain Salem@mcc if it has a dedicated screen for errors. Something called blue screen of death, it probably is not.
Lex Feathers 🍂@mcc possibly
Snuffy
Non-Canon Homophobic Neopets NPC@mcc big if true
sasanb@mcc you mean it is not a good operating system. It was an open secret for a long time. The only good features in Windows are those they stole frol Linux.
Elisabeth M
josh g.
Faraiwe
groxx
Gravity Sucks...then it Falls@mcc This is not a question it is a statement. It also happens to be true.
Duke
Brick Duck@mcc Not just possible, but probable.
Honor
nommie ✌️🩵@honor2025 @mcc oh distro twins (i switched jan 2026 tho)
@nommiesav @mcc I read Linux is over 5% now - 1st time ever to be that high
@honor2025 @mcc 5% on what? like linux users make up 5% of something now?
either way i’d believe it, windows is seriously unusable now, especially if you actively do not want to use ai.
skedarwarrior@honor2025 @mcc Been using linux for over 10 straight years. It is so much less crappy.
Nick 'The Viking'Indeed, but I think that was a while ago
It's worse now
mahadevank@mcc its been 25 years and files still get locked, forcing you to restart to release the lock, so you can delete or rename the file.
You decide.
keithzg@mahadevank @mcc Windows was born into a world that already had inodes, but it's damned if any of its filesystems will ever support such Unixian devilry
bignose@mcc hmmmm i think so…
LumiWorx
Owl Eyes
da_667
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@mcc 0x800f0805
derptron@mcc No. Pretty confident it indeed takes that many programs to be that terrible. You wouldn't be able to do it with just one. A raw kernel that boots up to nothing couldn't do anywhere near the same level of damage nor cause the same amount of frustration. Trying to integrate enough into one monolithic program would cause it to fail cascade too soon I think.
In other words, no...it's several and has to be.
KanaMauna
Ricardo Sada@mcc Windows 10 is probably the worst version in my experience. I recall windows XP and 2000 as the best ones. Windows Vista was also terrible.
Ludwig Vielfrass@mcc I do believe I’ve heard that before.
Sammy
Tak!
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@mcc bless their hearts, they try their best.
MrGrumpyMonkey@mcc It's just one program in the sea of many 'not very good' programs.
Robert Kist 🇦🇹🇸🇬@mcc <insert 'never was' meme>
(or maybe 2.0 was? I just started my Windoze career with 3.0)
michael@[email protected]'rename win.exe linux.sh' was very helpful
everton137@mcc on a scale from 1 (really bad) to 10 (really good), how likely bad is it? I haven't used it since 1997.
Tobias Hellgren
Oblomov@mcc can't be. It's installed on nearly every computer so it must be good. Why would anyone use anything but the very best program.
MarjorieR@oblomov @mcc Yes, but as you well know, MS Apps and Google apps and Meta Apps also already there along with Windows OS when you buy a PC (or Android phone or Tablet for that matter, if it's an Apple PC or phone or Tablet then its their stuff instead). Because the company that makes the PC is bribed to put them there. And so people use the OS and there Apps because they know no better.
Stefan
Pince sans rire@mcc It can't be "not very good"...
It's a dreadfull, horrible crap. No less...
It's a dreadfull, horrible crap. No less...
@mcc your asking the wrong question.
The right question is, is it possible windows is the worst OS in history due to being a giant black box.
Perkele@skedarwarrior @mcc Is it worse than TempleOS?
Yes. Yes it is.
Niavy 
@mcc
It is.
I went to see a good friend yesterday, I had to use his computer and I felt dirty using Windows 10.
💭...oh, wait, is it a flat square Windows logo ? That's Windows 11 😫😭...💭
💭...at least he has Firefox.💭
💭...oh, a taskbar ad 🤗😑 ?💭
I showed him Kubuntu on Distrosea.
I asked him if his computer worked well or was "muddy driving". I told him I could change his OS within 20 minutes with a spare USB key 😄.
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@mcc WHAT???? /j
nobody
Clément Steuer@mcc Is it possible that smoking is not very good for health