Does Windows have any desirable features that aren't just "this software I use uses a rootkit"? . Is the sole thing keeping Windows relevant right now a glaring system-wide vulnerability? Like if the Titanic came pre-installed with the iceb

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Anonymous 14-02-25 17:55:09 No.28497

Does Windows have any desirable features that aren't just "this software I use uses a rootkit"?
Is the sole thing keeping Windows relevant right now a glaring system-wide vulnerability? Like if the Titanic came pre-installed with the iceberg and made said iceberg it's main attraction?

Anonymous 14-02-25 18:12:45 No.28498

software that is incompatible with the other common OSes and it came preinstalled in ibm pcs (and clones) back in the day. these two things were done to achieve a "network effect" by which developers make software for windows because people use it, and people use it because the software they need was made for windows

imo the only reason gnu/linux software doesn't do the same is because it isn't popular enough and it's users are usually computer people that know what a rootkit is. there are apps that use rootkits on android, for example

Glownonymous 14-02-25 18:13:01 No.28499

legacy applications and special support contracts, being "the standard", etc.
if you need it for your job you're fucked but otherwise anyone would be better off with whatever linux

Moffin' 14-02-25 21:50:41 No.28500

>>28497
Driver support for odd and old devices

Anonymous 15-02-25 04:38:17 No.28507

>>28500
/thread

Anonymous 26-02-25 21:57:42 No.28574

Software and usability are what keep it relevant. I tried to help someone switch to Mint and he gave up after not being able to figure out how Proton works.

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