The case for the defense in my lack of knowledge.
Mmmm....well, I guess that I am going to have to invest some time into learning about Windows. Believe me, I don't want to, I think it's an abhorrence.
My lamentable lack of knowledge about the modern technologies comes from becoming jaded in the extreme. It wasn't always so.
When I owned a computer company, I spent hours telling folk not to install Windows. I have to say that I also said that it would never catch on for serious users. By an obscure routing of logic, it hasn't. So many people are hungering for an alternative. For me, so far nothing else fits the bill.
My 386 and 486 systems were fine tuned to run AutoCAD, and it made me more money than I had ever dreamed of. Flights to Comdex and nifty cars were all things that flying had not produced. At one venue in Las Vegas, a crowd had gathered round a stand and a man was saying that he had the fasted PC in the world. An ice-cap on a 386 running at 50 megs. Wow. I watched the regeneration of an AutoCAD drawing that I knew well. Mine was substantially faster. It was a great selling point for future advertising.
Then came the time that my customers started saying things like, "Leave it, my kid will fix it when he gets home from school." Time to get out, so I sold the company.
I can recall being so enthusiastic about the subject that I would read tech stuff in the cruise. (It was so absorbing that I had to stop doing it on safety grounds. Not like reading the Sun.) I guess that folk that are experts now, just love the technology, but I don't. It's as analogous to going into a woodwork shop, and spending 7 hours sharpening things, learning how all the new toys work and then spending 1 hour cutting wood. It makes no sense, unless you love doing it.
The point of all this is that operating systems needed to be pure. Some of the first flight simulators did not have an operating system. I watched a man on telly, saying that "there was not time for the system to access an operating system". Now, computers seem to be developed to pull a great lumbering mass of crap uphill. What's left over can do something useful.
I have no idea what the vast majority of the stuff on my disc is all about, but to filter it would take hours of reading up, and then starting all over when I clipped something vital.
I just want a core operating system, and then add stuff as I need it. I would have thought that Bill Gates would have made even more by this discrete packaging of product.
We all feel the same about people that infect, and / or suck data out of our computers. It should be made a very serious crime, because science and industry have never had a more important tool. But how much time should be spent in battle?