https://lemm.ee/post/61300657

It’s easy to use

The world in general switched from Firefox to Chrome several years ago because at that time (when just released) Chrome was new, shiny, and fast (much faster than Firefox). And at that time everyone loved Google (they still had their infamous “be no evil” motto). And Google also promoted their browser, and, given their web resources are immensely popular, that helped tremendously.

That switch had nothing to do with recent concerns about privacy in Mozilla products.

The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.

You have the bootloader, the initramfs, the boot procedure, systemd, PID 1, you can check the logs, you have all those little things that make the system work

Windows has pretty much the same concepts. These two books talk about all that in deep:

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/windows-internals-part-1-system-architecture-processes-9780735684188

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/windows-internals-part-2-9780135462409

Also check out this one: https://leanpub.com/perfbook

23 all year round

Every Russian-speaking IT professional knows that OnlyOffice was created in Russia:

https://habr.com/en/companies/infobox/articles/262553/

But so were JetBrains, ABBYY too.

It is: https://habr.com/en/companies/infobox/articles/262553/

McDonald’s also employs a lot of people in Europe and uses local ingredients to prepare their food. But we still avoid it.

Easy: iDEAL (which is a shitty system, but still…)

They do give you an option to customize OS components. But this feature isn’t targeted to home users but to enterprises and OEM manufacturera

This isn’t a Windows issue - this is an Office issue