Comment by usrusr
2 years ago
And Microsoft's endless struggle to alienate long time users who'd be willing to put up with a lot in exchange for being allowed to keep old UI habits. In combination with large parts of steam libraries just working, it's almost a perfect storm.
It was Microsoft's nerfing of the "Pro" Windows editions that did it for my business. We're small but we still need control of our own systems to operate professionally - just like the bigger organisations whose IT teams would never accept Microsoft forcing things like updates, reboots, and telemetry on their users. Since around Windows 10 it seems like Pro is just Home with a couple of minor concessions but still 99% of the junk we won't tolerate so we're now almost exclusively Linux and haven't bought a new Windows machine in a long time.