While I agree with this, careful with the “can’t argue with LARGE_PERCENTAGE of GROUP”. Windows is used by 95% of desktop computers and yet is really crap. Or - “eat crap - 75 billion flies can’t be wrong!”
Yeh, sure - but two things come out of this "dominance". One: the enormous quantity of support online. Have a problem with littleknownbutcoolcms? You're stuffed. Have a problem with WP? 10 gazillion people have written about it. Then two: clients want it because it's familiar, they've used it before, they've got another site using it, etc etc.
So yeh, I take your point, but it's the peripheral stuff that makes this important IMO.
Windows is crap compared to what? I've just switched recently to Windows 10 because I couldn't put up anymore with the lack of quality drivers for Ubuntu. Desktop Linux for me is a lost dream. Keep in mind that I was writing Vala apps not too long ago, I was that kind of a GNOME fan. For me, Linux is only a terminal, a deployment OS.
It's not crap, it's good enough. Like wordpress is good enough. That's really how life works, subject matter experts look for perfection while the average person is happy with good enough.
Do you buy the best dishwasher or do you buy the good enough one?
I actually quite like windows and use it on purpose on pretty much all of my computers, except my outdoor work laptop on debian/xfce.
You're allowed to dislike it, but for me windows 10 is a great OS with a thin removable layer of crap sprayed on top, and more importantly it's just the right balance between osx and linux.
To each his own, but you shouldn't be making such generalizations, especially in a message telling people not to make generalizations.
Windows is crap because of, not in spite of, it being used by 95% of people and therefore has to be compatible and backwards compatible with everything.
