I grew up using windows and was a fan of it, but now I am a contrarian because of how shitty it has become. The fact that it is widely used is not an argument that it is good. It is widely used because of existing market share and reluctance of change by people.

Even tobacco, the second most widely used drug, has a group of contrarians still today. Amazing.

Being widely used means almost nothing. There's a lot of reasons things can be widely used. Inertia, history, coercion, cheating, lying, addiction.

Windows is the most widely used because of history and inertia. It is not the best option in just about any metric, and a lot of this is objective. It's slow, the software is poorly designed and obtuse to use, and it lacks functionality. However, people already kind of know it, so it remains.

If Microsoft didn't get the IBM gig early on, we would not be using Windows.

Have you considered that this suspicion is because the number of obvious bots has exploded in the last half year or so, particularly after OpenClaw became the latest fad?

Start going to the profiles of every comment from a green account you see for a week and you’ll see how bad it is.

There will be friendly fire but unfortunately that’s to be expected when you click the top comment in a thread and realize an account has been posting 100% slop for months.

That's not sad, it what makes this place still worth visiting.

Depending on the criticism at the time, they were probably wrong at the time and are correct now. There were always trolls and bad people but at least there were no mega-corp playing with people's minds.