It is scary in the sense that it doesn't guide you and present you choices like a GUI would. It is a powerful tool if you know what you are doing but a newbie doesn't. And he doesn't learn anything if he is just copy-pasting commands in there. I only began to understand what they mean when I found the graphical representation for the task. Humas are visual animals after all. From there on I started to appreciate the terminal, as I now had a rough idea of whats going on in my OS.

I STILL use Vista as my 32 bit compatibility dual boot. I use it even though I also hsve XP, Vista is better than XP as long as you have the extra hardware requirements- which everyone now does pretty much. Even the nagging can be turned off if you research how to do it.

I tried to move to Win 7 (twice), but it had more compatibility issues and was more sluggish on my PC than Vista. So that is why I just stuck with Vista as my main OS all the way up until the start of this year! And it ran absolutely every thing I ever threw at it- including games that had issues on Win 7 that ran fine on Vista.

But finally switched my main OS to Win 10 this year and it has been awesome, best Windows since Win 98. So RIP Vista.

windows 10 is bad, inconsistent UI and bad compatibility with previous software.

They are solid but the reliance on Wine could be an issue as there is no alternative. Being unable to run the majority of the games on Linux without Wine is a huge issue because Wine updates and I have found that those at least break one game.

Terminals depend on who you talk to. There is no denying they have a learning curve no matter how well documented they are. I have read tons of man pages and they do little to help me learn anything. Most of the time, I have to ask someone in the Linux forums so someone could break down what the man means and what command I'm looking for.

I'm talking about Microsoft's broken updates. Linux is looking better by the day because of that because Microsoft is breaking things that should have no problems working. Linux is perfectly usable for desktop, home internet and even home theatre.

However, I have spent a year making it work for games and I'm talking about old games from GOG. I was unsuccessful, so instead I use Mint for home theatre purposes which worked out perfectly with no issues. Coming from Windows there is no way I could know my way around a command line without having experience with it or constantly having to ask people and then wait for an answer.

Yeah and Fuck up 15 years of all your save files because they monkey fucked the install and only 5% of everything worked!

I'll never understand the hate for MS when the free alternative, like Linux, is the most self-incomatible OS ever.

Therefore I'd recommend to create individual wine-prefixes for each application that don't get updated. It's quite easy to do with a graphical front end like Play On Linux or Lutris.

It's still a lot more effort needed than on windows obviously but that is to be expected if you try to run a game on an unsupported OS.

Windows is easy to use while Linux is not?

Life long Windows user here.

All the hate on Windows 10 comes from the fact that the normally available versions don't let you control much (Home, Pro). I got my hands on the Education version via the school I studied and still use it. I can manually control updates, disable tracking and analytics practically completely (can go to telemetry level 0), edit group policies with extended options and many more. I don't need to have a Microsoft account and can download and install updates whenever I want. If I wanted, I wouldn't have to update for a year. You then just have to do a few more minor tweaks (like disable Cortana completely through registry or in group policy) and you can block/disable pretty much any communication with Microsoft. Then, Win 10 is okay to use.

Enterprise is almost the same as Education.
That said, these versions are not normally available and thus the hate on Win 10 is somewhat justifiable.

And Windows 7 is still by far the best Windows I've had the pleasure to experience. It had amazing compatibility with old games, its UI was simple and effective and it most resembled my old favorite; Windows 98. But then my MOBO failed and had to get a new one and because of that, I installed the Win 10 for the already mentioned HW compatibility. But it has to be said that if I couldn't get my hands on the Education version, I probably would have stayed with Win 7.

Not quite the correct procedure, but there is basic documentation explaining the concept included with most distros.

I disagree,Vista on all the other pc's was fine by me.

I would rather tattoo data on my genitalia using a rusty blunt nail than use vista.
Nope, actually I can't think of any scenario in this life or the next which would ever convince me to use it now I have finally smashed the machine containing it. I even smashed the discs so they could never be used again, and then I burnt the remains and scattered the ash to the four winds, I was feeling quite merciful to the worst OS ever inflicted on the world... of a day goes by where I don't dream of smashing it all over again.

Agreed. Vista was terrible but Windows 8 was even worse.
"Let me just put a mobile OS on your desktop and see how you like it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)...".

Yo..y..you..you...BEAST!.....I agree:)

That's how it has always been. All these people calling Windows 7 the best OS Microsoft has ever made, will be forced to make the jump to Windows 11, or whatever the next one is called. And they'll believe it, to be so much better than their perceived failings of Windows 10, even though most would have surely been fixed. I personally noticed it happening with Win98, WinXP and now with Win7. I've never had any experience with Vista or 8, so I can't comment on these.

Early adopters of new Windows OSes have always faced problems, but those are usually fixed after the first year. What's left are those "features"(forced updates), that simply have become the new norm from now on. No matter how much you hate them, you'll still have to deal with them eventually.