why is windows 10 so hated?

I guess the less talented people need an excuse.

I dont know actually.

I'm osx by choice and win7 for work, but upgrading to win10 for my PC has been a solid experience thus far.

I've always been a Windows guy and I had to revert back to 7 after 3 months of 10. It was far too buggy on my Lenovo y510p i7, 16 GB RAM, SSD, SLI.

Because haters gonna hate

Because a little penguin told us to. So hard to resist...

I prefer windows over apps, and I straight up hate the new settings etc. I prefer the Win7 or macOS look

The sheer amount of times that it just breaks on its own is mind boggling. in fact after every restart I play a little game called what broke now.

First update: taskbar broke. Was not appearing.

Fixed reverting the update.

Second update: taskbar broke again.
Fixed reverting the update.

Windows anniversary update: Webcams from all over the world broke.

Not updating that one lol

I'm with @Xmiq. Whenever I boot into my Win10 partition something is always broken or wrong, especially when updates are installed and always seems to be a guessing game as to what is broken. I personally prefer a *nix environment especially for coding.

The truth is, everybody hates adjusting to something new. First we hate it then over time, we get used to it and be like, "oh shoot, I love this thing!"

@suprano that didn't happen with Windows vista

@fergor haha, true that.

My problem with Win10 is the number of spyware(telemetry) Microsoft enforces on the user , first time I installed a firewall , I got scared by the number of connections windows tried to establish. that's something am not willing to cope with.

I use Windows as my workhorse, mostly because the laptop works neat af compared to a Linux install.

With Linux:
- wireless is damn unstable (even compiling from source)
- battery goes down quickly (even with a good cpu governor or Intel's laptop tools)

Those are the big problem for me, that's why I use Windows, it doesn't dissapoint me, also, that way, I install an ArchLinux VM and run it headless, redirect ports to local host, and I'm ready to go!

Windiws 1O be like:

Oh you want to browse to any site? Can we track that and send it our server.

Oh you want to search your own machine? Can we track that and send it to our server?

Oh I see you have pictures, can we track that and send it to our server?

Oh you are trying to use social network applications? Can we have that too and keep it on our server?

Hey looks like you are coding something there. Can we send it to our server ?

Hey I notice you have friends and contacts. Can we copy all of that and send it to our server?

Hey I see you watching some videos. Can we like keep track what you watch and just log it on our sever?

Hey you are trying to login to your machine? You can't simply do that. You need to use our online windows account and connect to iur server all the time.

Hey I see you are typing something. Can we log your keystrokes and send it to our server?

Just kidding, we don't really want to ask your permissions to do all that. Just informing

Actually, only ONE reason: the terminal. How is that possible not to allow ttf/otf in the fockin terminal in 2016?!
And zero customization. One interface for N years. While linux-based have xfce, kde, gnome, mate, lxqt, a huge amount of *wm and whatever.
Windows is boring.
Windows is not suitable for system development.
Windows tries to be a smarty and does a lot of things not intended to happen.

Its the second time for a bad fail power shutdown that i can't make it work again and have to lost everything, today switch back to win7, on the bright side no more spyware from microsoft

lack of customization, lacks of good developer tools ,good tools for design,unpredictable updates and probably bill gates want to see my dick picks

often people so worried about telemetry in Windows 10 ... are the same not worried about android and google services ... LOL

@rookiepatty can you tell me for each point what do you use?