Anticheats makes multiplayer games hard to run on Linux (still sad that Apex walked back on Linux), and hardware may have sometime random issues on Linux (for some reason my mic was not working well on Discord (did not investigate, suspecting something on the software side since I could hear myself well when testing but my friends couldn't); I cannot use multiple screens with my current video card without my text editor dropping to 10FPS for some reason).
Plus Microsoft Office for people that prefer the ribbon over menus (but the browser version probably works well enough).
Though I feel that sleep is more reliable on Linux than on Windows today with "modern" sleep.
I would imagine that their home users are a tiny percentage of their market share; I'd wager that most people using Windows aren't the ones who purchased it, but are using company-provided hardware and software.
Goes to show that they don't sell to their users directly. They sell to governments and vendors, and do every trick in the book and invent some more, in order to keep Windows the de facto default PC platform. And have been doing that successfully since their beginnings.
Electronic Health Record software is a similar story. Doctors outright hate these. Yet, prevalent.
It's because Microsoft is not a consumer company, it's a B2B service provider. They couldn't care less about retail users in general, to the point that it's been their policy to turn a blind eye or even tacitly support the blatant piracy of Windows among Home users across generations.
Making sure people's operating systems are properly setup is not being hostile. In fact it is the opposite, it should result in a better user experience.
Compatibility.
Anticheats makes multiplayer games hard to run on Linux (still sad that Apex walked back on Linux), and hardware may have sometime random issues on Linux (for some reason my mic was not working well on Discord (did not investigate, suspecting something on the software side since I could hear myself well when testing but my friends couldn't); I cannot use multiple screens with my current video card without my text editor dropping to 10FPS for some reason).
Plus Microsoft Office for people that prefer the ribbon over menus (but the browser version probably works well enough).
Though I feel that sleep is more reliable on Linux than on Windows today with "modern" sleep.
I would imagine that their home users are a tiny percentage of their market share; I'd wager that most people using Windows aren't the ones who purchased it, but are using company-provided hardware and software.
Microsoft will become the Nokia of operating systems. Nothing lasts for ever.
Goes to show that they don't sell to their users directly. They sell to governments and vendors, and do every trick in the book and invent some more, in order to keep Windows the de facto default PC platform. And have been doing that successfully since their beginnings.
Electronic Health Record software is a similar story. Doctors outright hate these. Yet, prevalent.
It's because Microsoft is not a consumer company, it's a B2B service provider. They couldn't care less about retail users in general, to the point that it's been their policy to turn a blind eye or even tacitly support the blatant piracy of Windows among Home users across generations.
Making sure people's operating systems are properly setup is not being hostile. In fact it is the opposite, it should result in a better user experience.
What are the users choices?
Mac is an option, but Apple is plenty hostile to their users, and you're tied to their hardware.
Linux is an option, but good luck getting that business software you absolutely need that only runs on windows working.
Running everything online in a SaaS is an option, but at the end of the day those services aren't generally any less hostile than MS.