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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
OMG the updates. Windows updates have been beyond awful since at least 7. The uninvited background process kicks off just when you need your battery and it sucks up the juice. Even in 7 it was hard to stop. It takes a geek to track down the process and MURDER it. And in 10? OMG. Now it's obligatory. Even for the geek in me, it took some time to find the right poison to kill it dead.
The update process has me starting to think about recommending Macs to end user types.
But there is just so much software for Windows, and it's better. Just consider the text processing software. I like to write in a text editor with a white on black screen that supports fonts, italics, etc. I want to look like a dark mode, full-screen ASCII text editor, with functionality at the level of rich text. I could not find that in Linux. In Windows, I use Atlantis, and I assume there are others.
So.Much.Choice.
But the Update? It is the spawn dog bastard from Tarturus.
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I think you picked the one software example where Linux is better hands down. You can get a full-screen distraction free, dark-mode ASCII text editor just by switching to a virtual tty with Ctrl+alt+F2 through F6. And it's even harder to get distracted in as it's literally impossible to get notifications like those telling you to use Edge (I've had those appear in a full screen game on Windows), you can't alt+tab to another window until you switch back to tty1. Okay you can't pick fonts easily in ttys.
But even I you don't want to use a tty there is still loads of options. There are MULTIPLE emacs packages that will do it like writeroom-mode.