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>> I hear a continual litany of woe and despair from our helpdesk about drivers, and anti-virus, and AD issues etc ad infinitum

Sounds like human error to me. My two young children seem to handle Windows just fine without me having to constantly monitor their machines.

Edit: what? my anecdotal evidence isn't as good as everybody else?



Do you have corporate issued/managed anti-virus, threat detection, disk encryption, VPN, fileservers and managed printers? If so, your kids are well equipped for life in the corporate IT world.


You mean every person on here that's doing the usual whining about computers being hard fits that description? Seems to me there's just a lot of complaints just aimed at a specific OS for reasons.

Also, I'm fairly certain drivers and anti-virus is not exclusive to the corporate environment.


You should know that anecdotal evidence is frowned upon on Hacker News when it doesn't support conventional wisdom.


I thought his anecdote was the conventional wisdom?

It lines up pretty perfectly with my experience swapping in Ubuntu for Mac OS. When I have a problem I can troubleshoot it down to a specific line of code or piece of hardware, on windows.... well, I would rather not troubleshoot anything on windows.




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