"If Microsoft knows that you donât have to choose its products, it has to make them at least a little bit good."
"In the last year I have for the first time been forced to work with Windows, and it makes me angry. It amazes me that average people all over the world have the patience to put up with this every day just to get their work done. It infuriates me that they have to: that theyâre putting up with this rather than with an equally annoying but fundamentally better way of using computers. Itâs a great deal of wasted effort. I feel terrible when I imagine the people who are permanently soured on all the beautiful things computers can show just because Windows always annoyed them. I canât blame them and I wish I could help them. Windows presents so much of what people complain about when they complain about computers â dehumanization, arbitraryness, needless complexity, and confusion â that I think weâd be a noticeably healthier society, and more reconciled to our tools, if it hadnât become the default."
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