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Windows 10 is a sad joke of an operating system. It does not even deserve the name "operating system".

An operating system should be able to operate the system for weeks without automatic reboots.

An operating system should never ever just wake up from sleep on its own to install updates (with the potential to set my house on fire if the laptop is in a bag or something).

An operating system should not lie to it's users and trick them to sign up for online-cloud-stuff.




That's a very unusual definition of OS. Last time I checked the operating system was any piece of software that worked as an abstraction for the underlying hardware. Your list looks more like a wish list instead of OS requirements.


It was more a list of expectations I have from a desktop-OS.

Those expectations arose because since I was a kid on DOS or Amiga, this is what I learned what an OS is: You turn on your computer, the OS lets you run an program. You exit the program and turn off the computer.

Windows 10 broke this simple contract.


I dislike Windows 10 for all of these reasons, but why does that mean it doesn't deserve the name of "operating system"?


It could be confused with real operating systems like windows 7 or linux.


No, Linux is the kernel. What you're referring to is etc.


I was referring to GNU/Linux but I'm sure it was understood anyway.


With all the crap updates that MS is putting into Windows7 it's not much better. If you want real operating system, try OpenBSD.




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