it runs all apps,works with all hardware even “unsuppoted” ones with rufus.
it has pretty ui,great antivirus,and its free if you know where to look.
runs all games,can be customized with group policy and registery. gets latest game ready drivers,new gpus and hardware work on it instantly no wait for community to make it work.
no community needed you can just go to microsoft forums,or ai bec most windows problems are easy to solve.
great backwards compatibility.
extremely stable and never crashes
windows also runs all linux apps even gui ones,and desktop envs with wsl2.
i did use linux before,didnt like it.
and yes i do see piracy as a positive,and the point is you can see your apps easily if you pirate windows. see i didnt mention windows is better for poweruser i just said better. so this includes everyday people.
i did also run windows 11 on 10 year old cpu it works fine after rufus bypass. but i had to reflash windows after every feature update. by extracting the iso for new feature update and running setup.exe,then choosing keep apps and data and reinstall. it reinstalls my os and keeps apps and data i lived like this for a while not just a try.
windows runs all games even the anti cheat ones.
who cares about arch wiki,windows has fixes in youtube and more visible places in internet like microsoft forum or gemini or whatever ai person uses(most use ai now)
So by “windows supports backwards compatibility” you mean you have to bypass Windows in order to use it? That’s a hack, not compatibility.
You can think piracy is a positive, but the fact that you have to do that in order to use the OS isn’t a win.
Anti cheat is malware. It has broken Windows installs. I’m not in the habit of installing malware on my computer intentionally. Just the ability to do so is a net negative to Windows.
Do you think Linux doesn’t have forums, videos, and is also scraped by LLMs like Gemini?
Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros are very simple to use for average users and it just works with a load of pre installed, open source apps out of the box. No need to buy private software or go out, find, and download alternatives. It’s easier to install than Windows, and it doesn’t make you bypass the OOBE in order to create a local account. Only power users would know the steps in order to do so and they are also the ones knowing the implications of using a live account. Windows by default stores you private bitlocker key in Azure and has given that over to the government to bypass you private data. That’s not a thing with Linux.
Linux doesn’t have rewind malware either.