A broken clock can be right twice a day. Unless someone keeps playing with the dials.

As a former user, and an hardcore fanboy, I loved MS and Windows. They made computers accessible for the general public. The OS and the office suite were great. The sheer amount of available software for it was phenomenal. They even decided to publish games, which meant quality!

Until they decided to break things.

XP was a great OS, Vista wasn't. Then 7 was back to being good just for 8 to be not as good. Then Cortana and Edge and the push for cloud computing.

What worked, worked well and was actually useful was changed, removed, phased out...

GNU/Linux is not without its dramas and difficulties but we can expect a good degree of continuity between each version of a software (I'm looking a you, Gnome!). And if we're that hell bent on having that specific specific piece of software or OS setup, well, we can.

MS by contrast just chucks the good things out and doesn't even let them floating around as something users may add to their system.

Does someone remembers the PowerToys collection?