468 engineers on Hacker News describe using Windows first-hand: 65 endorse it, 137 regret it, 22 are mixed.
“It is bonkers that people willingly use Windows 11 as their primary OS.”
regret · personal · thatonehack · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 and 11 are still less functional, UI-wise, than Windows 7 was.”
mixed · personal · CountSessine · 2026-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It can be customized, but you can't go back to how the start menu was.”
regret · personal · Thanemate · 2026-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work we can freely choose which OS we run on our machines. Guess what everybody wants since IT got forced to upgrade each laptop to Windows 11?”
regret · production · foepys · 2026-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to use Windows 98 Millenium Edition, I was lucky to skip Windows Vista. So, again, no, thanks, never again.”
regret · personal · piokoch · 2026-06-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I broke down and finally bought my first Windows machine in over a decade... It was so infuriating to use I returned it a week later.”
regret · personal · ramesh31 · 2026-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At this point our strategy is to move off of reliance on any Microsoft/windows tech.”
regret · production · supliminal · 2026-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm never again installing windows on a computer I own.”
regret · personal · seu · 2026-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Staff with Windows have constant problems, updates take forever, reboots aren't very fast, programs crash”
regret · production · chris_wot · 2026-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“here comes Windows 11 with a task bar that forgets application icons and is generally sluggish to the feel, in my experience.”
regret · personal · cyphax · 2026-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows since 3.1. I really resent how intrusive it has got. I feel that I am both paying and the product, at the same time.”
regret · personal · 33 yr · hermitcrab · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 11 constantly since release over multiple machines”
endorse · personal · 4 yr · hluska · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's been over 20 years since I had a home computer running Windows... Microsoft can get away with what it is doing.”
regret · personal · 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm happy with Windows 11 after tweaks to fix it.”
endorse · personal · labrador · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Currently having to migrate to Win11 and thinking I spent 3k on new hardware just to be able to run some absolute clusterfuck of an OS.”
regret · personal · user____name · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows since version 3.0... I don't like the direction Windows is going any more than anyone”
mixed · personal · 35 yr · Timwi · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My wife's HP laptop has an ARM processor with Windows and it.. just works? Like everything works.”
endorse · personal · skrebbel · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I got so fed up with Microsoft's relentless invasion of my privacy, annoying nudges and other enshitification efforts in Windows that I decided that... windows is dead to me”
regret · personal · left-struck · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to go into settings and turn off everything I could find.”
mixed · personal · socalgal2 · 2025-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows was such a dumpster fire I absolutely ruled it out”
regret · production · 6 yr · eitally · 2025-10-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“why is the start menu rotating ads and news next to my applications. Some of them are not even metric pumping, it's just bad design.”
regret · personal · Too · 2025-05-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced the windows with linux since it was atleast a bit more usable”
regret · personal · porridgeraisin · 2025-02-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will never again meddle with Windows.”
regret · personal · forinti · 2025-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had multiple cases when Windows stopped booting and in absolute most of them I just had to reinstall the system from scratch”
regret · personal · 30 yr · itvision · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows as my primary desktop for well over 20 years until finally switching to Mac recently because I'm tired of constantly having to look for workarounds”
regret · personal · 20 yr · int_19h · 2024-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows has never given me anything but trouble... stuff that's easy on Linux semi-frequently required regedit hacks”
regret · personal · _7tgr · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's still (much!) better than the circles of hell that Windows has been putting users through since Windows 7”
regret · production · BLKNSLVR · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we all suffered years more of the crap of DOS and DOS memory management and Windows 3.x, because IBM fscked up.”
regret · production · lproven · 2024-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(in Linux, Windows was OK)”
endorse · personal · salomonk_mur · 2024-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“runs Windows 11 (and the games I play) just fine”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · Dalewyn · 2024-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't mind Windows except the monthly Windows updates are very slow and tedious”
mixed · production · lbriner · 2024-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have my portable drive in use for about 20 years now, happily expanding my software library”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · atmanactive · 2024-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“21st century Windows is the most fragile OS I've worked with since classic MacOS.”
regret · production · 36 yr · lproven · 2024-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was just a Windows update that had reset some setting, or was trying to get her to sign up for a Microsoft account”
regret · personal · icyberbullyu · 2024-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“running a god aweful bloatware infested version of windows 8.1, never again.”
regret · personal · jtriangle · 2024-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will never again have to suffer through the buffooneries of windows.”
regret · personal · sickofparadox · 2024-01-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The amount of lost productivity was insane.”
regret · production · RowanH · 2024-01-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have windows pc and have been using 4 monitors with it for years, and with windows laptop 3 is smooth..”
endorse · personal · anonymous344 · 2023-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows, even with WSL, had lots of problems, including performance issues.”
regret · production · minimaul · 2023-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the expensive and user-hostile Windows laptop I bought at the end of 2020 will be e-waste in 2025... Never again, Microsoft.”
regret · personal · panarky · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 on the netbook was completely unusable”
regret · personal · schemescape · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just switched back to Windows after 20 years on Linux and I regret it”
regret · personal · llamaInSouth · 2023-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Bluetooth on windows for over 10 years now from 7 to 11, and never had any issues whatsoever that were related to Windows itself.”
endorse · personal · 10 yr · FirmwareBurner · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I deployed Windows 3.1 in production. It was horribly unstable and crashed if you gave it a nasty look.”
regret · production · lproven · 2023-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“productivity for our use cases is so much higher with a Linux/Unix environment than Windows that it's not even remotely funny”
regret · production · OPA100 · 2023-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't think I've updated the core version at all since I installed it”
regret · personal · HenryBemis · 2023-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When the networking stack got worked out by Windows 98, everything was pretty smooth sailing.”
endorse · personal · datavirtue · 2023-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The amount of blue screens and shitty issues my wife puts up with on Windows is astonishing.”
regret · personal · Draiken · 2023-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows is not reliable enough for me to trust it. It served as a overspec baby cam monitor for a few months but we had so many issues”
regret · personal · vorpalhex · 2023-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my experience is the opposite. Windows is a perfectly usable dev environment.”
endorse · personal · vips7L · 2023-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows regularly has me in Windows XP era screens, reached through 3 inconsistent UX steps developed along the way.”
regret · personal · moonchrome · 2023-08-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after years of running windows 10 and 11 unregistered so I can't even look for it”
mixed · personal · kbenson · 2023-05-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“then I had to create user accounts on their Windows 11 machine and fight with the account linking there. Several hours, and an absurd amount of cursing”
regret · personal · Toxygene · 2023-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again. Wow. It's stagnated in many respects and its leading innovations are, sadly, hostile to users.”
regret · production · donohoe · 2023-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“And yes, I am very disappointed with Win11.”
mixed · personal · parker_mountain · 2023-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 11 is terrible and takes steps backwards in this regard.”
regret · personal · 20 yr · jug · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“by default on laptops, Windows will not use an available discrete GPU in the browser.”
regret · production · oplav · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows gets by business because of WSL, otherwise i would run Ubuntu or something, but windows is just less hassle”
endorse · personal · NationOfJoe · 2022-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I miss notifications on my work computer all the time because the flash color just doesn't stand out very much with my dark theme”
regret · production · sovnade · 2022-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was much more frustrated on windows when i ran into issues and your best bet was some incompetent support, and watching blue screens”
regret · personal · Sugimot0 · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But why are they ruining Windows for any professional use?”
mixed · production · avsteele · 2022-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't regret moving from MS to an honest Linux distro.”
regret · personal · neilv · 2022-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Two Windows laptops in a row over several years, I suffered with this sleep bullshit. Never again!”
regret · personal · grandpoobah · 2022-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were all spending 6-8 hours per week trying bending our host OS to work like Linux.”
regret · production · indymike · 2022-06-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Never again windows with Microsoft accounts... Windows 11 for me is Windows Never”
regret · production · polotics · 2022-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using computers for over 30 years, and each and every one has issues, bugs, finicky bits that suck the life out of you”
regret · personal · 28304283409234 · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having a set of programs windows can't easily spy on, serve ads into, and take diagnostics from is the upside.”
mixed · personal · account-5 · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's still Windows, we can tweak everything exactly how we want it.”
endorse · personal · medlazik · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Win11 now for about a week... one positive I've noticed has been a far better UX.”
mixed · personal · jjcm · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Certainly Windows is more vulnerable to malware, but it's not that bad.”
mixed · personal · lproven · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows Update regularly breaks the install so I have to reinstall them.”
regret · personal · Jolter · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows ARM with the recent updates also works well in the new base 14 inch. I've been using it daily, no issues.”
endorse · personal · chewyland · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“GPU acceleration is decent but no DX12 support yet.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · zamadatix · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the network driver of windows is no good in win95”
regret · production · ngcc_hk · 2021-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The windows machine was ok when we had it, but it did crash more.”
mixed · personal · taeric · 2021-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now I regret it and the only reason I haven't switched back to local accounts is because I'm not happy with any of the competition either.”
regret · personal · donmcronald · 2021-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“that sense that I'm fighting for control over the computer with some scooby-doo villain”
regret · personal · marginalia_nu · 2021-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switched to Windows ~1 year ago, and mostly regret it.”
regret · personal · 1 yr · gavinray · 2021-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Honestly pretty happy with Windows 11/WSLg, which is nice since the app I'm supporting would be very difficult”
endorse · production · mdip · 2021-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was finally useful about 4 hours later after all the updates and tomfoolery. Never again.”
regret · personal · autoliteInline · 2021-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is why I abandoned Mac and Windows... I don't need things randomly rearranged for me.”
regret · personal · forgotmypw17 · 2021-07-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Microsoft/Windows has always been about long term compatibility. That means things evolve slowly. That's OK.”
endorse · production · robomartin · 2021-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Unix every day but rarely Windows so I sometimes don't remember it.”
regret · personal · Ericson2314 · 2021-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only thing keeping companies on Windows is the control it gives them over the desktop.”
regret · production · TheRealDunkirk · 2021-04-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it stops working on newer versions of Windows because the vendor couldn't give a shit about keeping the driver up to date”
regret · personal · scaladev · 2021-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had a bad Windows update that caused every employee 4-5 hours of downtime. So, that afternoon I asked everyone Mac or Linux.”
regret · production · indymike · 2021-02-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use them because we got tired of spending a couple days a year (on average) unfucking our Windows machine after something goes wrong.”
regret · production · bonestamp2 · 2021-01-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The problem with public addressed end nodes is the Operating Systems we use aren't secure. Linux and Windows are unfit for purpose in a world of persistent connectivity.”
regret · personal · mikewarot · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows is a much better desktop environment.”
endorse · personal · eknkc · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently purchased an HP laptop for software that only works on Windows and have already had to reinstall Windows since the display driver was completely broken.”
regret · personal · jackson1442 · 2020-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the software is broken as fuck. Nothing works reliably or consistently. For over a month now Alt-tab on 20H2 has been randomly changing window ordering”
regret · personal · qz2 · 2020-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows is still spying on you with telemetry even with basic mode and using Windows Pro and it forces updates on you.”
regret · personal · nickjj · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows still has a lot of crap and actually gotten worse in a few ways (like the spyware and ads). Windows is basically a glorified games console UI for me now”
regret · personal · Razengan · 2020-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a Windows desktop user for most of my professional life, because in most fields”
mixed · production · Silhouette · 2020-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the desktop easily handles 144Hz and the experience is great. Everything is so smooth”
endorse · personal · chrisdalke · 2020-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 broke start menu search. Come on, this problem was solved a decade ago.”
regret · personal · Nextgrid · 2020-06-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since Windows 10, Microsoft has caught onto this and added a new service that checks if you disabled the Windows Update service and re-enables it automatically”
regret · personal · herpderperator · 2020-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Windows mixed DPI is damn near unusable. I don't mean "sometime in the past." I mean, now.”
regret · personal · jchw · 2020-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Part of the reason we moved to Ubuntu from Windows was the ability to control data usage, which is expensive. Automatic updates quickly become a significant slice of the bill”
regret · production · ultrarunner · 2020-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using win7 since forever. Win10 is such a huge step back that I just install win7 even on new PCs.”
endorse · personal · ksbakan · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows 10 (and its ancestors) on a kick-ass desktop PC for the past decade or so. It's been a shit-show.”
regret · personal · 10 yr · tpmx · 2019-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 10 for some time now and never had a problem with it. No forced restarts, no update available popups.”
endorse · personal · rafaelvasco · 2019-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Windows Start menu is terrible, and it's the most iconic part of MS Windows”
regret · personal · nmg · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 7 with its constant mandatory automatic updates did it for me... Windows, never again, and I switched happily to Ubuntu.”
regret · personal · 8sleef · 2019-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if Microsoft doesn't address our concerns, we're done with Windows, and presumably our future laptops and workstations will be Mac or Linux systems.”
regret · production · Silhouette · 2019-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every update seems to break something in very stupid ways or change things around for no apparent reason.”
regret · personal · iforgotpassword · 2019-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in our case all of our equipment (biotech) is controlled through windows software... we ran the setup and everything just worked out of the box”
endorse · production · la_barba · 2019-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“every time there's a Windows Update, it reinforces my decision to leave Windows for day-to-day use.”
regret · personal · dpkonofa · 2019-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The last time I tried to install insiders it mandated that I sign into Windows with a real Microsoft Live account”
regret · personal · nickjj · 2019-05-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it since the release of 3.0 (1990)... I realised this year that Microsoft don't really care about it anymore so why should I.”
regret · personal · 28 yr · tonyedgecombe · 2018-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I wish there was a way to make Win10 feel more like 2000/XP/Win7 visually.”
regret · personal · degenerate · 2018-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've got to the point I never want to run Windows infrastructure again.”
regret · production · setquk · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have NO desire to go back to Win(10/8) horrible user/developer experience.”
regret · personal · canada_dry · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've always found Windows to be much easier to get up and running.”
endorse · personal · babypuncher · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows exclusively on my work laptop for many years... I might just end up sticking around with Windows.”
endorse · production · _coveredInBees · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I finally feel like I have 1 machine that does everything very well.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · nickjj · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't mind Windows 10 at all, it feels a bit more customizable than MacOS actually.”
endorse · personal · Amygaz · 2018-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whenever I use a Windows machine the workflow is way worse from my perspective.”
regret · personal · sykhic · 2018-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd never trust MS's own idea for "updates".”
regret · production · crankylinuxuser · 2018-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unless something major happens, I will never again run any Microsoft operating system on anything I own. For the last several years, I have simply been unable to trust them as a company.”
regret · personal · jlgaddis · 2018-06-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Coming to BeOS from Windows, as I did, it felt like 2,000 pounds was lifted off my shoulders.”
regret · personal · allenbrunson · 2018-01-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Turns out I couldn't stand Windows, and I was constantly running a Linux VM in it”
regret · production · lloeki · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The funny thing is I initially installed windows on this build... That was more difficult than getting OS X installed.”
regret · personal · johnpowell · 2017-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Unfortunately, I use my work PC a lot and that's Windows...”
regret · production · wiz21c · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I somewhat regret opting in. I hate waiting for hours just for getting some negligible updates & patches”
mixed · personal · sus_007 · 2017-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows for so long now... fairly pleased with the high DPI support”
endorse · personal · jzymbaluk · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 7 for the last year at work and I'm having significantly less problems with Windows then MacOS.”
endorse · production · 1 yr · 2trill2spill · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I will not be buying another Windows computer anytime in the future.”
regret · personal · hiram112 · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's almost as bad as my new Windows 10 laptop next to it... in fact with the crashes it's now even worse.”
regret · personal · blunte · 2017-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Windows on the macbooks... it takes my machine ~30s of playing-dead before it pops back”
regret · production · nfoz · 2017-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I upgraded my work system from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and regret it even after a year!”
regret · production · 1 yr · newscracker · 2017-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Windows 10 and the lastest Windows server on all our machines and don't have problems”
endorse · production · GlobalServices · 2017-05-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having had the joyful experience of self-destructing windows installations on wife/offspring's laptops, I've sworn to never again allow a windows OS to run installed on bare metal.”
regret · personal · hpcjoe · 2017-03-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I made a mistake of installing W10 on it. ... Windows 10, never again.”
regret · personal · kofejnik · 2017-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm more frustrated about not beeing able to fix it in sane way when things go wrong.”
regret · personal · 18 yr · fleetfox · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I resent that Windows's bad, less flexible behavior has forced me to make it my host OS.”
regret · personal · cookiecaper · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows exclusively on my personal laptop for about 2 months and so far it's a good experience.”
endorse · personal · 0.2 yr · yummyfajitas · 2016-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“okay Kodi is buggy as is the Windows 10 it runs on”
regret · personal · myrandomcomment · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On Windows this whole problem just doesn't exists.”
endorse · personal · mf2hd · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 is a pain (run Kodi, and only Kodi on the system).”
regret · personal · myrandomcomment · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm stuck with Windows 10 and trying to get used to the fact applications take time to load. I wait for everything.”
regret · personal · rodolphoarruda · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been having far more problems with Windows 10 than with Linux... Windows problems seem a lot more difficult to solve, even though I've been using it for 20 years.”
regret · personal · 20 yr · jazoom · 2016-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the minute I had to use windows, bloatware jumps at your throat and you regret it right away.”
regret · personal · agumonkey · 2016-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I was surprised to see how unpolished Windows 10 Desktop is as well.”
regret · personal · jay_kyburz · 2016-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I upgraded three computers to Windows 10 a few months ago... All three had showstopper problems.”
regret · personal · jzwinck · 2016-05-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“one of my PCs from 2011 still runs Windows 7 just fine”
endorse · personal · varelse · 2016-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 is as nice and stable as Mac OS used to be (before Steve Jobs died).”
endorse · production · CrowFly · 2016-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been fairly smooth on Linux -- a bit rockier on Windows.”
regret · production · 0.5 yr · rgacote · 2015-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only real trouble we have with windows are some rare native add-ons like memwatch.”
mixed · production · mAritz · 2015-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Really the dual interfaces to the same thing are the worst part of Windows 10 right now.”
regret · personal · joshstrange · 2015-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have to test our product on these systems... the majority of the functionality has shifted to behind the privacy wall.”
regret · production · 22 yr · batou · 2015-07-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I must say that I have been enjoying Windows 8.1”
endorse · personal · mark_l_watson · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using W10 on v4 fine for the past few weeks.”
endorse · personal · asifjamil · 2015-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every single TV in my house as a Windows device plugged into it. ... you can't beat Windows if flexibility is what you want.”
endorse · personal · WorldWideWayne · 2015-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using as 7" keyboard-less laptop replacement... Storage gets quite full very easily... Windows and Office installed on C:”
mixed · personal · gbl08ma · 2015-06-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Win8 to 8.1 upgrade which was about 2GB and not immediately available as an ISO/disc - it failed repeatedly overnight”
regret · personal · voltagex_ · 2015-05-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a Windows gaming box that is super lean and mean and it took a lot of effort to get it to this state.”
mixed · personal · PopsiclePete · 2015-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“sadly we run Windows in a sandbox or not at all.”
regret · production · mmphosis · 2015-01-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One of the system calls we use in NCPaint returns different values depending on whether the executable is marked as XP compatible or not”
regret · production · mark-r · 2014-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I love the Windows 8 Start Screen but detest Mission Control.”
endorse · personal · xenophonf · 2014-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's way easier than remotely administering windows.”
regret · personal · itsboring · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows will update itself for what seems like an eternity and then reboot automatically straight back into Debian.”
regret · personal · omerhj · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows XP, IE8 (at least I have chrome because I'm the webmaster, but not for the rest of the mortals”
regret · production · singold · 2014-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything else was a nightmare - had to download everything from every vendor's website.”
regret · production · Mikeb85 · 2014-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still sometimes need to boot up Windows box for work, but for each time I boot it up, I feel terrible”
regret · production · eonil · 2013-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I miss a lot of things because I'm too deep in CLI usage... had I had it when I tried to play with Ruby on Windows 7”
mixed · personal · joshguthrie · 2013-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“One feature of 8.1 I was looking forward to was kiosk mode but with WinRT being blocked from talking to localhost”
mixed · production · w0rd-driven · 2013-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Every day I am forced to use Windows 8, I curse the day Microsoft took out of Business all the better OS products in the 90ies.”
regret · personal · Gpapa · 2013-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I preferred various versions of Windows to Mac or forms of Linux up until some years ago and I have quite a bit of experience with Microsoft technologies that I don't regret”
endorse · personal · bryan_rasmussen · 2013-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We made the mistake of installing Windows 7 Premium 64-bit on a workstation with 24GB of RAM but Windows only said 16GB was available!”
regret · production · dave1010uk · 2013-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in a prior life I installed it at many small businesses who took full advantage of it's built in network mail client”
endorse · production · HNJohnC · 2013-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's because we run Windows internally and so do all of our clients and partners.”
endorse · production · WayneDB · 2013-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“installed windows 8 three days ago (on a second hdd, thank God) ... watched it BSOD itself to oblivion for no good reason”
regret · personal · hardwaresofton · 2013-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from Windows to Macs. A great day in my life.”
regret · production · cschmidt · 2013-05-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rebooting - blue screen every time I restart machine.... In the end - whole evening was spent to play single game and I end up with BSOD.”
regret · personal · hippich · 2012-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows as my primary OS since 3.11 days ... They really pulled their act together in last couple of years.”
endorse · personal · 19 yr · abcd_f · 2012-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I been using windows 8 for a while and it is definitely how the future will look like. It is really good on desktop”
endorse · personal · desireco42 · 2012-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“XP is just an OS that's far past its security expiration date, and running it at all means taking a big risk.”
regret · production · justinschuh · 2012-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since I have problems in Windows as well, I've been using FTP over Wi-Fi as much as possible”
regret · personal · w1ntermute · 2012-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Life got so much better when we switched to 64 bit Windows 7.”
endorse · production · WhaleBiologist · 2012-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using it on my main workstation for the past few weeks and I think they did a great job.”
endorse · personal · WayneDB · 2012-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 on my primary machine for about a year. I couldn't imagine going back to Windows 7.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · Encosia · 2012-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Take Win8 for example, which I've been using for the past two weeks... This has proven to be very frustrating.”
regret · personal · 0.04 yr · potatolicious · 2012-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 as my primary OS for nearly a year”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · Encosia · 2012-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Surface RT for about three weeks. I've never experienced anything like what he's describing.”
endorse · personal · Encosia · 2012-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 for about 2 weeks as well and I really like it.”
endorse · personal · 0.04 yr · dagw · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I too have been using a Surface since launch and have been running Win8 Pro on my laptop since RTM, and guess what? I disagree with the OP.”
endorse · personal · alyx · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 on a laptop (no touch input) for few weeks and it took me 2-3 days to make it "work" like Windows 7.”
regret · personal · cheeaun · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I never use a single "Modern UI" app for the simple reason that they force my entire screen to be filled by one app.”
regret · personal · tvdw · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 7 was the same way. Its improvements over XP are, IMO, few and of little impact.”
regret · personal · ConceptJunkie · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now. I never really stopped to think about the overall usability”
endorse · personal · madoublet · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 since the RP and have been very happy with it.”
endorse · personal · NZ_Matt · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The simplicity in this case has gone too far. ... Win8 IMO is a far, far more egregious violator.”
regret · personal · potatolicious · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Win8 on my desktop for a couple weeks now; I'm pretty happy with it.”
endorse · personal · sliverstorm · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows 8 for months all day with not one problem with app store.”
endorse · personal · ladzoppelin · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Win8 UI is really bad. They'll make it better but as it stands now, it's awful and unusable for normal people.”
regret · personal · jcoby · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only thing that bothers me about the new Start menu is that it takes an extra step to get to the point where I can search for programs.”
mixed · personal · Yhippa · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Win 8 on the desktop for almost a year, and I have no need for a start button/menu/etc.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · drharris · 2012-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 8 is gorgeous and very, very stable. Microsoft has finally simplified the desktop experience”
endorse · personal · rcb · 2012-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been too long on the MS side. That's my only regret.”
regret · personal · peacebeuntoyou · 2012-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We develop windows applications and have to support XP and up. We certainly notice fragmentation "in the developer sense".”
regret · production · wcoenen · 2012-06-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I won't use windows and I wouldn't take a job that did. Been there, done that, never again.”
regret · production · earl · 2012-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For one we could not get correctly our game and some of our tools to work on XP with /3GB”
regret · production · malkia · 2012-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having a vanilla Microsoft stack is useful in a lot ways, one of them being that news travels fast”
endorse · production · stevear · 2012-03-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've run into issues with curl, the PKI infrastructure in Windows and weird bugs up and down the stack”
regret · production · sriramk · 2012-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm not sure if I could ever stand windows as a main development environment again.”
regret · personal · dekz · 2011-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I find Windows 7's out of the box support for multiple monitors offensively bad.”
regret · personal · ajscherer · 2011-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the lack of good tiling features is almost painful when I use windows (though the win7 tiling features certainly were a welcome addition)”
mixed · personal · dkersten · 2011-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only problem I ran into was caused by a wonky driver for an external audio interface.”
endorse · personal · kitsune_ · 2011-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have had good success doing this (with Windows at least.)”
endorse · production · mkchandler · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“But then I ran Windows boxes for decades without a single non-intentional infection.”
endorse · personal · 20 yr · rbanffy · 2011-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My machine runs Windows 7 with all the fluff smoothly, they need to hit that point.”
endorse · personal · jasonkostempski · 2011-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Were it not for Microsoft preventing newer versions of IE from being installed, I think we'd probably stay on XP forever.”
endorse · production · m0nastic · 2011-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I never again want to use Windows but I won't be caught dead recommending OS X to anyone.”
regret · personal · ugh · 2011-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows can be brain-dead from time to time (it insisted on rotating my notebook screen when I unplugged the rotated LCD)”
mixed · production · rbanffy · 2011-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't think I could bring myself back to ever using Windows again for development”
regret · personal · nestlequ1k · 2010-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Win7 at work... I am surprised at how often Win7 guesses my intent wrong or does stupid annoying things”
regret · production · gvb · 2010-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Company-issued HP "elitebook"... Runs Win7, which I quite like.”
endorse · production · mullr · 2010-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 7 since its RC release, well over a year now. Windows 7 has been amazing”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · jaspero · 2010-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My dev work is mostly done on Windows... more convenient to use Windows to avoid context switching.”
endorse · production · luffy · 2010-10-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Being a tech driven outfit ... (except Vista, we all hated Vista)”
regret · production · _b8r0 · 2010-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Windows 7 x64 from the beginning (MSDNA) and I haven't had any problems.”
endorse · personal · kxs · 2010-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed Windows, got excellent wireless connection after one update and the only thing that i needed to do was fire up my text editor”
endorse · personal · MisterWebz · 2010-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched the OS's to windows 7, its more suitable for an organization.”
endorse · production · doron · 2010-04-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use 32-bit Windows XP VMs or sometimes even FreeDOS for some of the software we use.”
neutral · production · spauldo · 2026-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I recently transitioned away from Windows as well as on a secondary single-use laptop”
neutral · personal · cosmic_cheese · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows since Windows 95, meaning I have plenty of experience”
neutral · personal · 31 yr · PorciiVorbesc · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows since v3.0.”
neutral · personal · leptons · 2026-10-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we use Windows its hard to tinker so we leave well along.”
neutral · personal · graemep · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Depending on who you are in our company, you are using either Mac or Windows”
neutral · production · rf15 · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our own single-use QEMU VMs with Windows and Linux.”
neutral · production · defied · 2026-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my unit of my Uni we have Windows desktops managed by central IT.”
neutral · production · PaulHoule · 2026-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a Linux workstation at my desk and a Windows laptop.”
neutral · production · throw0101a · 2026-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Whenever Windows applies an update late at night, I wake up if it turns back on.”
neutral · personal · jrockway · 2026-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The same client makes us dev on Windows machine but deploy on Linux pods.”
neutral · production · BiteCode_dev · 2026-03-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You can enable this in Win 11 25H2. I have it enabled on my box. Doesn't seem to make that much of a difference”
neutral · personal · p_ing · 2025-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a US layout with a similar alteration for years as well on Windows and Linux”
neutral · personal · gregopet · 2025-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“installed Mac, Windows, and Linux Mint on it.”
neutral · personal · ruralfam · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“disabled some Windows annoyances but not all.”
neutral · personal · armchairhacker · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember once I was working for a big tech and we had windows computers.”
neutral · production · godelski · 2025-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With the "requirements" check bypassed, Windows 11 actually runs on the Intel 1st gen Core i-series and newer”
neutral · production · nfriedly · 2025-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have two literal decades of experience using a windows machine.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · Levitz · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've had about 400 Windows HP laptops/200 desktops through my hands running IT for a nonprofit.”
neutral · production · SoleilAbsolu · 2025-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We ran bots on Windows, Linux, even a Mac.”
neutral · production · JoeAltmaier · 2025-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we all use Windows and macOS laptops around here”
neutral · personal · pjmlp · 2025-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I converted it from Windows to Linux a few years ago”
neutral · personal · W3zzy · 2025-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they gave up and moved to Dell workstations running Windows XP professional using thrown-together Java or X11 versions”
neutral · production · os2warpman · 2025-07-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we replaced most of the machines in our office. ... we used the install check bypass for Win11”
neutral · production · caycep · 2025-06-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to netboot Windows 95 on a campus Novell network”
neutral · production · mrspuratic · 2025-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using windows since 3.1, and I can't recall a Windows version where I wasn't able to muck around in the system itself.”
neutral · personal · 32 yr · dagmx · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“never had to resort to going back to windows except for gaming”
neutral · personal · random42_ · 2024-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“she is unwilling to change her Windows pin to anything other than the PIN she uses everywhere else.”
neutral · personal · richjdsmith · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows primarily by keyboard controls since 1988.”
neutral · personal · 36 yr · lproven · 2024-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everything is seamlessly synced across Linux, Android, and Windows.”
neutral · personal · apitman · 2024-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Linux and Windows boxes at home, and Android phones (for now).”
neutral · personal · hn_acc1 · 2024-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We develop in Windows and deploy in Linux.”
neutral · production · BeetleB · 2024-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At home we didn't run Windows 3.1 full-time”
neutral · personal · skissane · 2024-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my first LAN party was 1996 and we were running Windows 95 by that point, which probably helped.”
neutral · personal · kentonv · 2024-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's sooo slow compared to when windows was on the same hardware.”
neutral · personal · TrueSlacker0 · 2024-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows-based development... I can't store and maintain VM's for 10 years because one of the 200 chips in the design does not have good support for Windows, where all the other tools live.”
neutral · production · robomartin · 2024-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Started as a Windows line of business software developer almost 20 years ago.”
neutral · production · 20 yr · m_st · 2024-02-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Arc on my MacOS devices and Edge on windows devices”
neutral · personal · charrondev · 2023-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“WoW actually has a native arm64 support on Windows, so that works very well.”
neutral · personal · kcb · 2023-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the game itself has moved on and is now using Vulkan on Windows and Linux.”
neutral · production · justsid · 2023-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this since around Windows 3.11. It is very convenient, and my fingers learned what to do decades ago”
neutral · personal · 30 yr · mcswell · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Beeper Cloud for a year on a Windows desktop.”
neutral · personal · starik36 · 2023-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On my Win11 box, I have Freecell Solitaire extracted from Win32S for Windows 3.1”
neutral · personal · lproven · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“if the company has a overbearing IT, we run windows for "security"”
neutral · production · chaosbutters314 · 2023-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched from Win to Fedora Workstation on laptop 2 years ago.”
neutral · personal · t0bia_s · 2023-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ssh into a Linux VM every day at work (windows laptop)”
neutral · production · tantony · 2023-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the fleet consists of freebsd rhel7 xnu win10 openbsd netbsd pi silicon”
neutral · production · jart · 2023-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use macOS at home, but work at a Windows shop on a Dell.”
neutral · production · wincy · 2023-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had to use a specific version of cracked Windows XP”
neutral · production · monero-xmr · 2023-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run an i5-12400F at 5.2GHz and run a fairly customized Windows 11 Enterprise”
neutral · personal · LoganDark · 2023-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our biggest expense is never going to be anything but the windows licensing”
neutral · production · devjab · 2023-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“make all the desktops on windows production servers bright red”
neutral · production · wkat4242 · 2023-06-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used Windows XP heavily and absolutely wouldn't be able to perform basic tasks on an modern Windows system.”
neutral · personal · cardanome · 2022-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do have a Windows VM (on KVM) for older projects that run on .NET full.”
neutral · production · rvdginste · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're largely in the windows world.”
neutral · production · technion · 2022-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They used to spend most of the summer formatting the machines, reinstalling Windows, office, anti-virus etc, doing them manually a classroom at a time.”
neutral · production · benjaminwootton · 2022-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had been able to upgrade the OS all the way to Windows 10, legitimately”
neutral · personal · leviathant · 2022-11-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is an issue we've run into a lot at $work where users will forget their FIDO2 pin”
neutral · production · ArchOversight · 2022-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“transitioned from Novell NetWare on DOS and Windows 3 to Windows 95 and 98 on the internet.”
neutral · production · rrwo · 2022-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at least for my work we ditched them again once the Windows allocator became faster.”
neutral · production · archi42 · 2022-09-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Mostly our devs run whichever of macOS or Windows is their personal preference”
neutral · production · bigiain · 2022-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“how to install a printer on a windows 95 workstation”
neutral · production · dragonsky · 2022-07-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the thing didn't work that well with _windows_, let alone linux.”
neutral · personal · shawnb576 · 2022-03-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“corporate IT give me a Windows laptop after about 15 years of running Linux at work.”
neutral · production · alephNullplus1 · 2022-02-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now she has a Windows laptop at school and her Linux laptop here, which she switches back and forth between”
neutral · personal · JeremyNT · 2022-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Samsung C49RG9x (49" ultra-wide) on Windows 10 for about four months.”
neutral · personal · 0.33 yr · movedx · 2021-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 10 (previously Windows 7) on an i7-3770 for close to ten years (!). That shouldn't be a slow machine.”
neutral · personal · justin66 · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows 10 for general use works okay for me. I don't see a great overall difference in performance when compared to Gnome on Linux.”
neutral · personal · Delk · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is a native Windows game build on a Windows VM on a Linux host.”
neutral · personal · washadjeffmad · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PotPlayer with MadVR for years on Windows.”
neutral · personal · marcus_cemes · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“there's one data scientist on windows, he uses WSL”
neutral · production · kortex · 2021-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a stupid python script on Windows to switch video inputs.”
neutral · personal · intrepidhero · 2021-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all of them ran Novell Netware networks using Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on client PCs.”
neutral · production · tssva · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also from time to time swap out the M.2 SSD with windows when I need it.”
neutral · personal · sakebomb · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I dual boot both of them. The process was simply shrinking the Windows partition using the built in Windows utility”
neutral · personal · kesslern · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was a Windows-based game server, so the extra cpu overhead might have had something to do with it.”
neutral · personal · bstar77 · 2021-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“while also running Windows 3.1.”
neutral · personal · mbreese · 2021-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Pretty sure it was running Windows 98.”
neutral · personal · drakonka · 2021-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It doesn't even show up on the Windows box. I won't bother to fix it.”
neutral · personal · rbanffy · 2021-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my lab who insisted on using Windows to control a bunch of lab hardware.”
neutral · production · throwmamatrain · 2021-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I develop windows software for work”
neutral · production · josephferano · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is also why I have a Mac, a couple of Windows PCs, a Linux workstation, and a BSD laptop.”
neutral · personal · morganvachon · 2021-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in prod setups where some clients insist on Windows but most use Linux, we see that Linux easily wins.”
neutral · production · tluyben2 · 2021-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux)”
neutral · personal · vanekjar · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“while I use Mac OS (& Windows), I've been using yabai”
neutral · personal · Hammershaft · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's funny that I've been using Emacs on windows 10 for years”
neutral · personal · clircle · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I ran Windows XP and Windows 7 without any updates for about 15 years combined”
neutral · personal · nickjj · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this on Windows for a few months now, and it works great!”
neutral · personal · 0.25 yr · GordonS · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That computer's wifi didn't even work with Windows. (Well, to be honest, it was Vista.)”
neutral · personal · simonblack · 2020-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I reboot into Windows to spend a couple of hours in that one game which refuses to work under Proton”
neutral · personal · scaladev · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also have a windows installer that configures a windows service to run the executable/keep it up.”
neutral · production · lemax · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I usually use Windows with C (through the raw win32 API - which isn't everybody's cup of tea and can be somewhat confusing)”
neutral · personal · phendrenad2 · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“They have constant connection / sound issues (Windows 10)”
neutral · personal · plasma · 2020-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“keepalives are disabled on Windows (where I use Docker for dev/test only)”
neutral · personal · GordonS · 2020-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use it all the time in my windows box for dev.”
neutral · personal · grogenaut · 2020-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it was a hard problem since we were on windows”
neutral · production · breck · 2020-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“all the engineering time we wasted on component selection and ordering and progress bars and BIOS configs and Windows update”
neutral · production · LeifCarrotson · 2020-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only way to change it was to install Windows 95 or 98 and run the tag changer tool.”
neutral · production · anilakar · 2020-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“distribute the CA certificate to our windows clients through a GPO”
neutral · production · akira2501 · 2020-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the Windows 10 linux stuff is good enough for our folks who were using a Mac for Unixy reasons”
neutral · production · Spooky23 · 2020-06-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“three node clusters on Windows virtual machines.”
neutral · production · hnrodey · 2020-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm still puzzled for the file share issue on Windows.”
neutral · production · jve · 2020-05-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we do have some software along those lines on our Windows 7 machines that are about to run out of support”
neutral · production · Silhouette · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do .NET for my $DAYJOB and we use Windows for development. It works, but I wouldn't constrain myself only to Windows”
neutral · production · james_s_tayler · 2019-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using search for everything since Windows 7. Just have to remember the first 3-5 letters”
neutral · personal · jotm · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“most people who work at my agency use Windows on their workstations”
neutral · production · giaour · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows 10 for years on multiple computers and yet to see a single ad.”
neutral · personal · kyberias · 2019-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using most Windows 10 versions. At home and at work. Currently this Windows is 1903.”
neutral · production · kyberias · 2019-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We literally have a version controlled Windows image with Vivada just to be able to quickly restore it when it breaks.”
neutral · production · baybal2 · 2019-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“found an old Windows laptop, re-installed my audio software on Windows”
neutral · personal · sivers · 2019-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Which is why I'm using my Matebook Windows laptop for dev.”
neutral · personal · hughw · 2019-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Windows 7 Pro on our current Windows desktops, but not because we also use Windows server”
neutral · production · Silhouette · 2019-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My current shop is the oldest shop I've ever worked for and is entirely a Windows/C# shop.”
neutral · production · hermitdev · 2019-09-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on the devices and much of the work I did on our 64-bit OS image is mostly invalidated”
neutral · production · Fr0styMatt88 · 2019-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 last year, my boss was extremely upset”
neutral · production · wycy · 2019-07-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the image is loaded into a new Windows 7 image, TurboTax installed and updated”
neutral · personal · neilv · 2019-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Syncthing to sharo Call of Duty maps between 5 people (Mac, Windows)”
neutral · personal · jeena · 2018-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Build on primarily windows desktops, and hosted on Linux containers.”
neutral · production · dc_gregory · 2018-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using the latest Chrome on Windows 10.”
neutral · personal · w-ll · 2018-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using computers for 35 years, Windows since 3.1”
neutral · personal · 26 yr · detritus · 2018-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“still spends the majority of recreation time on a Win7 box”
neutral · personal · wink · 2018-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some very common Windows Objects can't be serialized in any meaningful way (most painful one for me being the Windows Update Client)”
neutral · production · tremon · 2018-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a local version of the server on .net 4.x and windows.”
neutral · production · daxfohl · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use Windows + WSL on a daily basis for web development.”
neutral · personal · Aaronmacaron · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also use Windows, but only for gaming.”
neutral · personal · pier25 · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“on Windows I can use various types of Linux variants right from the Windows App store”
neutral · personal · jmartrican · 2018-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“cross-compiled OCaml programs on Linux and Windows and Mac OS X”
neutral · personal · rwmj · 2018-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The pen (on windows) is better than I expected too.”
neutral · personal · JansjoFromIkea · 2018-10-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The DRM used on Spore bricked my Windows install”
neutral · personal · Izkata · 2018-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For everything else, we moved to Windows years ago.”
neutral · production · teilo · 2018-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're purely Linux, but have Windows VMs, just for Excel... so that we can finally ditch the Windows VMs we run!”
neutral · production · osrec · 2018-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd say that around 75% of these run on windows only, many without suitable alternatives.”
neutral · production · sidstling · 2018-08-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we had a Dell XPS Dimension back in 1996, it came with the OSR-1 release”
neutral · personal · DaiPlusPlus · 2018-08-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“A normal PC at our place would be running Windows 7, ERP client, browsers, and Office 2010.”
neutral · production · jimnotgym · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we only have linux mail servers although we run Windows on clients”
neutral · production · sabas_ge · 2018-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm a Windows user these days.”
neutral · personal · steveklabnik · 2017-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 10 for a year and a half and I've never used the Store.”
neutral · personal · 1.5 yr · PhasmaFelis · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SaltStack supports it so even on Windows we use Python3.”
neutral · production · dijit · 2017-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've never had anything similar happen with a PC (we use Thinkpads), whether running Linux or Windows.”
neutral · production · vetinari · 2017-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using the following in Win 8.1:”
neutral · personal · rbaud · 2017-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Firefox for several months, using Windows 10, and several GNU/Linux distributions”
neutral · personal · thomastjeffery · 2017-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having to manually turn the TV off and on via the remote in the right order so that Windows 10 doesn't reset my window layout”
neutral · personal · dugmartin · 2017-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My employer is still rocking Windows 7 for this reason.”
neutral · production · blub · 2017-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“before End of Support for XP we moved to 7 in under a year.”
neutral · production · beached_whale · 2017-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched to Windows in highschool, the computers temporarily lost some of their magic”
neutral · personal · _caw · 2017-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In my previous day-job, an NPM install on Windows 7 could take hours”
neutral · production · alayek · 2017-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switched a server farm to Windows _because it just wasn't worth it._”
neutral · production · ComputerGuru · 2017-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“mostly macOS actually, but some Windows”
neutral · production · sjellis · 2017-07-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Driver support for it was THE thing that kept me from upgrading from XP to 7”
neutral · personal · flyinghamster · 2017-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we're paying a little bit more because it is a Windows instance”
neutral · production · antaviana · 2017-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were first using GDI (on Windows)”
neutral · production · ComputerGuru · 2017-02-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Turns out Windows was querying and getting the IP address but somewhere it was reversing the dotted quad”
neutral · personal · pbhjpbhj · 2017-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when we rolled out new PCs with Windows 95 we migrated to Excel and Word.”
neutral · production · raesene9 · 2016-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they get a Windows 7 PC from IT, which they can use as-is or load Linux onto”
neutral · production · davidgerard · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Microsoft's free anti-virus products on my Windows machines since Microsoft first started offering them.”
neutral · personal · brudgers · 2016-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's running Win10 with Skype for Business, a combination which I struggled and failed to make screenshare”
neutral · production · semi-extrinsic · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the laptop is still plagued with annoying issues, even on Windows.”
neutral · personal · qubitcoder · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am very much looking forward to installing this on my Windows machine tonight, however.”
neutral · personal · 52-6F-62 · 2016-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried Clonezilla out back in September on my Windows machine, which was running fine at the time.”
neutral · personal · jaytaylor · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Win10 w/ the Windows Subsystem for Linux almost exclusively for my Linux development”
neutral · production · 0.33 yr · hermitdev · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“embedded shop that ended up with some projects that had better/easier tooling on Linux than our usual Windows”
neutral · production · Jtsummers · 2016-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The underlying base of original client backup software was originally written from scratch on three platforms simultaneously: 1) Windows, 2) Macintosh, and 3) Linux.”
neutral · production · brianwski · 2016-11-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run into size of images needed for each container as well (think windows down the road)”
neutral · personal · beyondmeasures · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nothing fancy, just multiple copies of large files at the filesystem level... This was on a vanilla Windows 10 workstation.”
neutral · personal · kabdib · 2016-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The next one - for my studies - was a 486DX33 8MB RAM machine with Windows 3.1, soon RedHat Linux (1995).”
neutral · personal · Noseshine · 2016-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“coupled to a move to Windows 10 and using bash”
neutral · production · yawgmoth · 2016-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our team has been seriously considering converting from Windows to Linux for embedded development.”
neutral · production · jimsparkman · 2016-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from Win98 to WinXP that night so that I could have a bit more control”
neutral · personal · smoyer · 2016-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I knew my Windows 98 activation key by heart in my early teens :)”
neutral · personal · qb45 · 2016-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“everything else (e-mail, productivity apps) is in Windows”
neutral · personal · technofiend · 2016-03-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“by running VM's on all of our Windows desktops and laptops”
neutral · production · rebootthesystem · 2015-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I moved away from Windows to Debian just to experiment, and it turns out that Debian is actually pretty cool.”
neutral · personal · _zero · 2015-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In Windows we use TreeSizeFree to find the offending files.”
neutral · production · stephengillie · 2015-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a VMware ESXi box at home that I use to run a Windows VM with a video card passed through.”
neutral · personal · jleight · 2015-07-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Windows Tablet PC since 2003 (HP, Toshiba , and now Fujitsu).”
neutral · personal · 12 yr · abawany · 2015-07-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“both are crap on the desktop so I'm sitting here on Windows 8.1...”
neutral · personal · batou · 2015-06-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows XP until January 2009, then I reformatted my laptop with Ubuntu.”
neutral · personal · pmontra · 2015-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As a Windows/VMWare/Exchange/Cisco admin, this is all completely foreign to me.”
neutral · production · halfcat · 2015-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a mixture of Linux and Windows.”
neutral · production · shubb · 2015-03-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the open file dialog on Windows Vista+ is threaded, and will bomb out on you with alarming frequency.”
neutral · personal · byuu · 2015-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Dell XPS 15z for the last three years”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · stinos · 2015-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been running mostly VMs all this time on our app (Windows, SQL Server, Linux w/ Rails)”
neutral · production · atonse · 2014-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have enabled two factor authentication and also use this account as my primary Windows login.”
neutral · personal · Maarten88 · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We develop and test exclusively on Windows, then deploy the binaries to Linux.”
neutral · production · MichaelGG · 2014-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have been using Windows as main OS for years mainly because of the existence of VS.”
neutral · personal · stinos · 2014-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If I absolutely must do something with Windows, I have a vm that I crank up”
neutral · personal · cestes · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Stuff is plugged in/out of Windows boxes over and over on the manufacturing line.”
neutral · production · linuxlizard · 2014-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched to Windows, and we used something to do hypertexts instead.”
neutral · personal · tenfingers · 2014-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Windows and Linux machines.”
neutral · production · bananas · 2014-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've moved to Windows 7 with virtual XP machines.”
neutral · production · pgrote · 2014-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our machines ran Windows XP the first two years, then we switched to Linux”
neutral · production · 2 yr · gshubert17 · 2014-02-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the last Windows version I used was Windows XP (pre SP 1)”
neutral · personal · aeroevan · 2013-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My dev setup for years has been a Windows client working against a Linux box on my LAN.”
neutral · personal · cheald · 2013-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Windows. These tools have been helpful.”
neutral · production · KevinEldon · 2013-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the computer vision and gesture recognition algorithms are running on a Windows 8 tablet”
neutral · production · pbrook · 2013-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Maybe I haven't been using my windows machine enough, but I honestly can't remember having any malware issues in quite a few years.”
neutral · personal · praxulus · 2013-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using Windows for the previous 17 years or so, so I also switched control and command.”
neutral · personal · 17 yr · typografy · 2013-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only reason we went with Windows was that the display multiplexer thingy we bought doesn't support Linux.”
neutral · production · duncan_bayne · 2013-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“professional software packages we use on Windows without anything in the same class available on Linux.”
neutral · production · Silhouette · 2013-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use OS X and Windows every week”
neutral · personal · pwthornton · 2013-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only reason I keep a windows machine around is because of Word/Powerpoint.”
neutral · personal · chmike · 2013-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“5 prod websphere servers 700 windows boxes for the users.”
neutral · production · sharemywin · 2013-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had a boot camp partition running windows so I could still develop our C#-based web product.”
neutral · production · taude · 2013-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I grew up with Windows, and started using Macs in college.”
neutral · personal · rob05c · 2013-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having left my enterprise setting prior to Windows 8 become widely available (hell I left even before we moved to Windows 7)”
neutral · production · gregd · 2013-08-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the IP addresses were used as part of a file name on Windows; we replaced all colons in the IPv6 address with '!' to fix that.”
neutral · production · gpvos · 2013-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had to install '07 when we switched to a Vista 64 to be able to run FEA and other tools”
neutral · production · robomartin · 2013-01-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My desktop PC has 2GB RAM and runs Windows XP: a decade-old operating system.”
neutral · production · scrumper · 2012-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“half windows (customer TSE access, networked file store), half linux (web hosting + many services) infrastructure.”
neutral · production · lloeki · 2012-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are on Windows 7 administrated staff and student computers, and we run Explorer 9.”
neutral · production · keithpeter · 2012-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“alongside with Windows for at least three years before that”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · BerislavLopac · 2012-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having been using Windows 8 as my primary desktop OS for about a year, I never see the ads.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · Encosia · 2012-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows 8 at work for compatibility testing for over a month”
neutral · production · actsasbuffoon · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In the ten days I've been using the Surface, that Store has either been down or completely unresponsive”
neutral · personal · Cbasedlifeform · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The office suite that I use once in a while is taken care by Win7 running in a VM.”
neutral · personal · happywolf · 2012-11-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On the Win 7 netbook I share with my wife we run only Chrome.”
neutral · personal · jeremyjh · 2012-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I think I'm starting to 'get it', in that Windows 8 (perhaps moreso than Surface) may have a big effect on how we use computers.”
neutral · personal · marshray · 2012-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the same task was okay in the past with Windows XP and 512mb of ram.”
neutral · personal · Nicole060 · 2012-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we actually still have some Windows 3.1 servers in production alongside some Windows 2000”
neutral · production · freehunter · 2012-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“performance on windows (I dual boot for gaming), is not very good.”
neutral · personal · foamdino · 2012-08-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm sitting here on a Win7 laptop (dual boot Ubuntu)”
neutral · personal · gouranga · 2012-04-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For that we have Windows machines.”
neutral · production · philiphodgen · 2012-04-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our production environment is running on Windows + IIS + .Net”
neutral · production · aespinoza · 2011-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Today, I'm working for a small retail company in Madrid, Spain: Ten people, running Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.”
neutral · production · dhs · 2011-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The windows build takes 14 minutes.”
neutral · production · shin_lao · 2011-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“got it running a Windows 7 environment where I have my preferred text editor of choice”
neutral · personal · thaumaturgy · 2011-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am a software engineer, for one, and I run a tight ship - my Windows system is perpetually bare-bones.”
neutral · personal · king_magic · 2011-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Operating systems we run Dropbox on at my house: Ubuntu, OSX, iOS, Windows, Blackberry 5.”
neutral · personal · brlewis · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had installed Windows on a Java developer's workstation”
neutral · production · fleitz · 2011-04-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched an entire team of about 10 people to Ubuntu just because we couldnt afford to buy any more Windows licenses.”
neutral · production · ankimal · 2011-01-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm on 64-bit Win7 too -- I've been using nightlies for over a year”
neutral · personal · sid0 · 2010-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in my windows days, it never occurred to me that I could just write scripts to automate mundane tasks”
neutral · personal · hasenj · 2010-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Windows tablets since the early 1990's, when I had a Compaq Concerto running "Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing"”
neutral · personal · 18 yr · saurik · 2010-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using OSX and Win 7 for the last several months”
neutral · personal · abhimishra · 2010-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“my laptops run Ubuntu and/or Win7, neither of which has Illustrator on it.”
neutral · personal · jamesbritt · 2010-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Windows XP+Remote Desktop came in vogue, and the combination of Windows XP running the HummingBird Client”
neutral · production · ghshephard · 2010-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using a Ram disk as the TEMP folder on Windows for more than a year and the overall speed of the system is quite better”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · stagas · 2010-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As someone else who has been using tablets for a long time (going back to Windows 3.11 for Pen on a Compaq Concerto)”
neutral · personal · 17 yr · saurik · 2010-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'd worked with Windows 95, 98, 3.11, NT 4”
neutral · personal · cmkrnl · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use windows professionally for my job.”
neutral · production · webginja · 2010-07-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run in Windows, Linux, MacOS and on both NVIDIA and ATI.”
neutral · production · strebler · 2010-06-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“[Entered using ie7 on xp pro. I didn't have a choice.]”
neutral · personal · edw519 · 2010-02-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?