Windows is crap.
Virus central and malware central.
Not 10. The HP I got in January has never been rebuilt, runs great and reliable and no malware or viruses. And I'm no saint on the Internet either.
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Windows could always be described that way. It can (theoretically) do a lot but everything's a bit less than polished. But it works – there's a reason it's used in business and for other serious endeavours. If you think Windows 10 isn't bad, I feel like you would have been fine with most earlier releases of Windows as well.
I came up from Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 2k, ME, 7, and now 10 so I know Windows quite well. It was 98 and ME that brought me to the Mac in 2001. Administered every Windows server from NT 4 to 2008 R2 when I switched over to Linux administration. So you can say I know all 3 OS's (Windows, Mac, and Linux) very intimately.
Win 10, while it does have rough edges (and I could write about them too) is very serviceable. I've been daily driving it since January. No crashes, no reinstalls, nothing. It just runs. The laptop has failed to come out of sleep some times but I can count them on one hand over the last 11 months. The thing is every bit as reliable as my Macbooks have been. Is it perfect? Hell no. But neither have the OS X versions I've used - 10.1 to High Sierra.
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I have a Windows 10 touch enabled laptop issued to me from work. It is not a bad laptop. I never use touch, ever. Why? 99% of the apps are not touch friendly. 100% of the ones I use are not. So yeah after playing with paint using touch, for a few min, the experience was over. Maybe if I had a Surface Pro I would use touch more? Doubtful because it again comes to apps that have horrible touch UI. Also used at a tablet, the Surface Pro is bulky and just not as good as a iPad which is lighter, slimmer, has way more battery life and ALL of its apps are touch fantastic.
Different strokes. I use the touch all the time. Clicking programs on the task bar, closing windows, opening/closing Chrome windows, tapping buttons, etc. It's not perfect but it's great for quick stabs at the screen rather than clicking with the mouse.
Using it as a tablet is great as I can use FULL apps like Photoshop and Lightroom. I've got a pen as well and editing photos is awesome. Connect the keyboard and fold it like and A and it doubles as a Cintiq - draw right on the screen. Flip it back and use it in bed. No worrying about crappy mobile sites, a new app that has horrible syncing, etc. You use the same apps you already have.
I tried the iPad thing for a couple years and it was a horrible experience for me. Editing photos was horrible, the mobile vs desktop sites issue was horrible. It sure was portable though.
I'll probably never go back to a Mac laptop as touch/pen is one thing I don't think I can live without.
Also there are many things to NOT like about the Windows 10. DPI scaling is horrible compared to a Mac. Even some of the built in OS parts, like device manager, or Microsoft's own tools like AD users and groups are NOT DPI aware so they look like KRAP on a high dpi monitor that is not running at 100%. You can't control (completely) the update process. I have had my work laptop reboot on me at the wrong times because I had put off the reboot to many times. Then every time there is a big update (twice a year) all this KRAP ad software gets jammed into the start menu....lots of it. Ad's on the lock screen by default. Yes most, not all, can be turned off. I wont even get into the forced telemetry data at some level that can't be turned off.
Yes, I've got a 4k screen laptop and some of the apps have bad DPI scaling but that has gotten much better in the recent issues. And you can tweak the settings for each app as well. There is no excuse for MS's own apps not to have DPI scaling and even not to be all the new UI style.
I'm not sure where your updates issue comes from. I've not had any issues with that - I have updates set to start after 11pm and it reboots when it wants after that. I know that they have tweaked some of those settings in later builds. Perhaps it's your corporate GPO.
Same with ads and other stuff. Nothing like that here either. No ads on my lock screen either. Starting to wonder if it's your OS version or corporate build.
Win 10 has its plusses and minuses just like OSX. Both are good OS's (and I never thought I'd say that about a MS OS).
There is no way I would buy a Windows 10 computer on purpose.
I used to say that. Then I bought one in January and built one in Nov. Not sure what I'll do when my iMac dies.
