[[I changed over to Linux over a decade ago, a hand built Gentoo system, compiled it myself on several machines, fast and sweet]]
Had i discovered linux at a younger age, when i was more able to explore and learn (like i had to with windows), I would have probably gone with a ‘build it yourself’ distro- but I’m now at an age where I’m too tired to learn a new operating system fro mscratch unfortunately-
[[but truthfully, there is no reason for me to choose it over Windows 10.]]
Meh- windows 10 is a massive spyware now- you can’t even turn off some of the spyware without some additional software, and who knows if they even work? MS just got way too aggressive for my liking- With older versions of windows, you could turn off the more benign spyware stuff, and MS wouldn’t re enable it on you like they do with windows 10 now- plus they no longer allow the user to choose which updates they want- they force it on us now— I just didn’t like the direction they are headed in lately- and I believe they are practically forcing windows 120 on people (and tricking them into downloading and installing it via updates) in as planned later effort to go to a ‘pay per month’ model like Adobe photoshop did- no thanks
You bring up a good point! I was speaking of functionality issues, but this is very concerning.
“in as planned later effort to go to a ‘pay per month’ model “
This would be fatal for Microsoft/Windows. I doubt they’d do something *that* stupid. I can certainly see them doing it for Office or any relatively high priced applications they have, but doing this for the OS itself would kill them.
I think Windows might go to a free / low cost model for home and professional users. The spyware is to determine what ads you should be hit with in their eventual completed app store (you’ll be targeted with all sorts of applications/games/movies/music/VR porn/etc).
Again, I’m speculating here, but it seems like they want to make their cash off digital sales and the like since they can make a decent profit off impulse buys (Apple certainly learned this early on with iTunes :-) ).
“like Adobe photoshop did- no thanks”
The subscription model helped Adobe as well as lots of new users. Fewer people pirate it now. It used to be cost prohibitive to lots of amateurs, but now they’re paying to use it here and there for various jobs. A friend of mine benefited from this new Adobe model quite a bit.
If I am not mistaken, you can still get a perpetual license for a complete version ... you can also get an annual subscription that will allow you to download new versions and the like as they are released. The costs are about the same as they were before.
What I don’t like is if your internet connection is dead, you’re eventually blocked from using stuff you paid for in some cases.