They could resolve most criticisms by just continuing security updates for W10 and otherwise never touching it again. But then what of their surveillance-based revenue?
Start “fixing” by removing ALL the AI crap.
“When we meet as a team, we discuss these paint points and others in detail, because we want developers to choose Windows.”
Putting aside the “paint points” vs pain points, unless there is some MS Paint aspect I have missed, what about the broader user base who are not developers and simply want a robust OS to run their games and applications without all the AI and telemetry “features”?
You know shits bad when even I’M advocating to switch to linux. I don’t even understand linux!
I would happily switch to an OS that is linux under the hood, but visually can operate like Windows XP.
WHERE TERMINAL ISN’T EVEN INSTALLED BY DEFAULT!
Windows comes with two terminals.
There are 4 different copy commands by default within PowerShell I can think of: copy, xcopy, robocopy, and copy-item. Robocopy is still better at many scripted tasks, even though it is from CMD.
Honestly, Debian KDE is pretty close. And there are even distros that mimic the look of WinXP if you want.

