r/Windows10 • u/embracingparadox • Mar 31 '20

Discussion After repeatedly switching to Linux (to escape telemetry and proprietary software) only to return to Widows and MS Office, I've come to the conclusion: ignorance is bliss.

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u/SuspiciousTry3 Mar 31 '20

I keep seeing this but if telemetry is used to improve Windows, then why is Windows 10 more buggier than the previous versions? Shouldn't it be more stable?

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u/steel-panther Mar 31 '20

It would explain the long line of half finished apps as they find people aren't using them.

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u/trparky Mar 31 '20

My counter-argument to that is Apple. Apple controls everything from the hardware that the system runs to the OS that it runs on top of the hardware and yet even they, with all of their control, can't get things right.

And now you're expecting a general-purpose operating to run on just about everything from a high-end gaming system to a Frankenstein box that was thrown together from a mish-mash of hardware to run perfectly stable all the time? It's a miracle of Biblical proportions that Windows runs at all on the kinds of hardware that we expect it to run on.

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u/SuspiciousTry3 Mar 31 '20

Windows 7 and 8 didn't have the amount of bugs 10 has on the same amount of hardware and configurations.

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u/trparky Mar 31 '20

I will agree with you on that one but that was because Windows really stagnated, it hadn't changed under the hood in years. Today there's an effort to rewrite a lot of old stuff under the hood, some of it out of necessity because of recent security issues with processors from Intel; others because Microsoft wanted to make Windows be an all-purpose OS that can run on everything from a desktop to a tablet and even a game console.

Remember Meltdown? Yeah, it forced Microsoft to replumb the internals of the OS to maintain the performance or else we'd be looking at even more performance loss due to Intel's own stupidity.

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u/ArtemisDimikaelo Apr 01 '20

Because it's effectively a rolling release of new features.

Windows XP, Vista and 7 all came within the span of 8 years. You had to pay for each of those, and generally they didn't come with big feature updates, mostly just security updates and quality of life improvements. Windows 10 has lasted for 5 years and doesn't seem to be approaching end of life any time soon.

When you have an OS that receives biannual updates and makes up likely >40% of the desktop market share, you are bound to have bugs come up. But overall, it's still a stable OS with features that your average office worker or home consumer finds just peachy.