It was the inverse for me. Windows 7 was always a nightmare to set up drivers, it was common to manually download the wifi drivers from the laptop's brand website. I groaned whenever someone asked me to help set up their PC.
Windows 10 just works out of the box. The only downside for me is aesthetics, I always preferred Aero.
Yeah, it's cyclical. They're re-entering their shithead phase.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
The got smacked with those EU antitrust lawsuits and they reset back to Embrace, and started participating in open-source again.
Then they started extending by doing shit like buying GitHub and adding even more cool shit to it.
Now they're entering in extinguish phase where they're doing shit like making it difficult to change default browser, and integrating all their services together without the ability to integrate 3rd parties.
They'll (hopefully) get smacked with another EU antitrust lawsuit and reset soon.
It's legal and user pushback - and it's a battle I'm bored of fighting. I just use Linux, and find it simpler. With Windows, it's ads, forced updates, 'upgrades' that re-enable 'features' i never wanted, a billion background services, most of which I don't need - and more.
Fuck the battle to keep shit from being shoved down my throat.
Makes sense, everyone makes the trade-offs they're willing to make.
Next best thing to Linux is stripped windows installs like ghost spectre. I dual-boot, myself, but spend most of my time in Linux, with windows being a regrettable but useful occasional tool for gaming.
Iβm literally going to use windows 10 until it completely stops getting updated, by that point hopefully someone will invent a Linux distro that doesnβt irritate me
I have tried mint, I mostly did like it, but there were just some small things that really got on my nerves. The fact that middle clicking a webpage did nothing was unbearable, thatβs how I scroll all the time
It does do something though, it paste directly from the latest info from the clipboard XD. So, if you highlight something, then middle click somewhere else(not just a browser, basically system wide) it will paste what ya highlighted.
default settings, everything on GNU/Linux can be customized. Getting done to change the default is always a struggle. For example it's been decades that in GNUDE the middle button click has been paste, so while it may seem dumb to you that it does that, it's user base expects that to be the default.
But as you've already found in this thread in a meme community, one of the best ways to learn how to customize your system the way you want is to claim in a Linux forum that Linux can't do such and such.
That's "autoscroll". It's under the "Browsing" section on the General page of the Firefox settings. It's turned off by default, but you just have to check one box to turn it on.