As for the telemetry, turning the telemetry mode to Basic cuts the privacy invading data by 99.9%. I've looked at the data that is sent to Microsoft using the Diagnostic Data Viewer and there's nothing nefarious going on at all.
Then that is a recent change, one I admit not keeping up on(don't care as remove it all manually anyway).
Google does more datamining than Microsoft does, yet you never hear of people complain about the fact that Android is literally Google's datamining platform, and they carry said device with them everywhere they go all while Google is slurping up shitloads of data all the damn time. Double standard much?
Not really. Google publicly declares what is collects and how. They also provide tools for managing what is collected. Not only can all of the personalized collection be turned off(required by law in some areas of the world), but you can also disable most of the rest.
There's a reason I have that avatar. You'll never find me using an Android.
I think everyone has that figured out. Your loss.
However, to say that Windows 10 is crap just because of that is a disservice to Windows 10 itself.
It not just that, as was already stated elsewhere.
Things like native secondary monitor taskbars
Not everyone likes that. I disable it as the extra taskbar just get in the way taking up valuable space.
quick and easy reload of the OS without having to dig out the installation media
What do you mean? Reinstallation you mean?
fully integrated OneDrive with offline file support
Again, not something everyone uses. Onedrive is one of the first things I remove.
usable notifications with a history of them
More annoyances that get disabled.
high resolution DPI scaling that actually works (Windows 7 was piss shit poor at this)
What? Scaling works fine in Windows 7. Literally set it and forget it.
support to reconnect to Bluetooth devices with a simple Windows Key + K, etc.
Ok , sure. Bluetooth support in Windows 7 was non-existent. However, they built it into Win10 and it could have been easily built into 7 with a service pack..
I really could go on and on with the improvements that I find very useful in Windows 10 over Windows 7.
Yes. we could do this back and forth thing all day long... And I could explain how many things have been removed from 10 that 7 has readily available, features that work and look better in 7 and how cumbersome many of the system functions have become, if they can be accessed at all.
Honestly, the only version of Linux that's really easy to use is Android and ChromeOS.
Clear you haven't used a recent Linux distro. For example, Mint(any GUI version) is very simple to use and easy to install. Installing software is as easy as opening the Linux version of the app store.
Google made it braindead fucking easy to use.
Yeah, that's true..
I should not EVER have to touch the command line and don't get me started with config files and command line switches. If you have more than six command line switches, you lost the average user. If you tell me to edit a config file, again... you lost the average user.
Most people would never need to do that anyway. 99.9% of anything that would need to be done by the average person is done in the GUI. It's really only the nitty-gritty advanced functionality that needs the CLI.
Like it or not, Windows is still king because the people in charge of many Linux distros can't get it through their damn heads that if you want to kill Microsoft stone dead, you have to make it so damn easy to use an idiot can use it.
You need to sit down with a mainstream Linux distro, any of the big ones will do. You sound like you're talking out your backside because you're clearly out of touch with how easy to use Linux is.
