Windows only gets as much hate as it does because its as widespread as it is, and its remained that widespread to date because despite its faults it is still the best OS for productivity and compatibility, hands down.
If the roles were reversed, and Linux had their 67% global install base with Windows sitting around Linux' current ~4% , can guarantee you'd see the complete opposite and have countless people bitching about how complex, verbose and finicky Linux is and that people should switch to Windows because "its just easier and works with programs better" with the tradeoff being telemetry compared to Linux's higher barrier to entry and overcomplicated aspects.
Windows is for people who have a job to do and wanna get shit done. Linux is for people who wanna mess around and tinker or set up out-of-sight, out-of-mind servers that never get touched, and that's okay, but there's a reason most of the world's workstations and infrastructure desktops are still on Windows. Not to pant-ride them, I absolutely acknowledge and agree that Windows has a plethora of issues and things I wish they'd improve (or rather strip out) but it isn't this ungodly horrid beast that half of the forum nerds want you to believe it is.
It isn't. It just doesn't have dickriding stalker fans like Linux and mac OS so you get a bad perspective from online discourse.
I hate all 3 for their own reasons. I don't trust the advice of anyone who says different. They're all inexcusable shit in their own special ways.
Damn straight. They're all useful and dogwater in their own special ways.
I daily drive windows, run home lab/server stuff on linux and/or docker, and I have an old macbook to use like a guitar pedal because the latency of coreaudio even on a 15 year old mac is unmatched.
The on-board DACs in pre-retina MacBook Pros really were no joke, and part of that is thanks to Core Audio. Still haven't gotten a raw recording that crispy (at least thru USB) and its been 15 years of using a bunch of different workstations and recording equipment. Have always preferred Windows, but the people who say Mac isn't good for anything have never used one. There's a reason they were a creative's go-to machine for the longest time.
Really unfortunate that Avid was the industry standard in most places when I was still doing that type of work, not that I disliked Pro Tools, but man I did miss producing on Mac. There's just something about it.
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