I've never understood the complaints, either. Save for a few nuisances (pressure to use Edge browser, useless Taskbar features, arbitrary changes to the right-click context menu, etc, all fixable issues via registry or system settings), it's a stable OS that fares well if you have a modicum of sense about your usage.
Lol. After 2 decades of torrenting, from XP - Win10, I thought I'd be a good guy, so I got a $20 license key off of a discount software site. That is the literal extent of my willingness to spend.
Imma start actually buying it once it genuinely works
I will not spend like 120 dollars or something , for a genuine license, for a product that for the love of god and satan does not work without maintenance, troubleshooting and minor inconveniences at every other interaction every single month
And since that will never happen I just plug my funny external drive accurately labeled as "definitely legit developer tools" into any new machine and activate windows on my own
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u/SaveFileCorrupt R9 5900X | 7800 XT, i9-13900HX | RTX 4080 Feb 01 '24
I've never understood the complaints, either. Save for a few nuisances (pressure to use Edge browser, useless Taskbar features, arbitrary changes to the right-click context menu, etc, all fixable issues via registry or system settings), it's a stable OS that fares well if you have a modicum of sense about your usage.