An operating system is just another tool, and if you use tools you learn HOW to use them.
With a little user input, W10 is not half as bad as people moan that it is. Also, remember, we, as a group asr reasonably tech-savvy, unlike some silver surfers, or "Mister Average," the ubiquitous "
man on the Clapham omnibus."
I moaned about the intrusive nature of W10 and the incessant hand-holding when I first upgraded, but after a while, I found simple ways to circumvent most things that were bugging, because
a) I was "
clever" enough to do that myself, or...
b). I know how to use Google. Whatever you want to do there's a high probability that somebody has already done it and is bragging about it somewhere.
I also came to realise that a large portion of my moaning was about things I'd read about that were "
wrong" with W10 and not things I'd actually experienced personally.
Bottom line, Micro$oft went for the lowest common denominator as far as users go, and that's fairly low. There are people out there (e.g. people who still happily click links in emails from people they don't know - that level of user) who do actually benefit from the hand holding. They need to leave the training wheels on.
Speaking as someone who, as part of one job I had, had to write a user manual for the tills on a brand new EPOS system - starting from a blank sheet - one really does have to go "
back to basics" and cannot make any assumptions about the skills of end-users, as my subsequent rewrites and appendices proved..
Put a bit of effort in and W10 improves. It's also a lot more fun and a lot more productive, streamlining it, rather than doing nothing except moan about stuff that is easily fixable. Think of it as "
personalising" your OS.
As I've said, I don't particularly like Micro$oft, but I have to work with their software so I eventually took the time to make W10 work for me, rather than the other way around. I'm not expecting W11 to be any different in that respect.
