I am not saying Windows is bad. Everything has flaws. I'm not bashing either and neither should you. Operating systems all do the same basic thing, in different ways. Now, I will defend against things that are simply not true and are only true in perspective of "what you are most used to"...
Highwayman: It's not the only fault, and windows does not "win" at anything other than being commercially supported, which Linux isn't even trying to do. It's not trying to be sold or be more popular at all (The distributions of Linux which are not free ARE NOT PROOF that they are trying to sell...
I've been trying to do a network diagnostics on my computer, but I can't because the diagnostics policy service is not running and will not start. To be specific, it starts, then automatically stops. And no, I CAN NOT do a system restore. I did not have system restores on before the problem...
Surprisingly not about security. See, after spending time trying to personalize things since I am used to doing so on Linux, I discovered a huge flaw in how Windows does personalization. It's completely limited. Sure, people unfamiliar with computers take Linux as too confusing because you can...