The most extraordinary happened because of the most extraordinary reason: I started using Windows 10 a few months ago, because I’m playing PC games.

Windows 10 has a modern and clean interface of all Windows ever. You can tell Microsoft has abandoned its past and truly worked on something new. In fact, I think the UI is more modern than that of MacOS. And it’s stable enough that running Windows no longer feels as compromised as before.

The killer app in Windows 10 is perhaps the new Chromium based Edge browser. It’s no longer IE; it’s not the useless first versions of Edge; it’s not Chrome either. It’s fast like Chrome, but it offers a peace of mind that your online profile isn’t entirely controlled by Google.

When using Windows 10, I rediscovered good things about Windows itself. If there’s one thing Windows do better than the Mac, it’s full screen apps. Full screen apps on the Mac is a joke. They try to get you focused by treating full screen apps as an entirely new desktop. But in that way you’re disconnected from the rest of your tasks, when the reason of using desktop (rather than tablets) these days is better multitasking. But in Windows, every app can be maximized by default, meaning every app is optimized as a full screen app. Double clicking anywhere on the title bar (rather than clicking a small green dot on the Mac) and the window is made full-screen. Clicking the large app icon on the start menu and the window is minimized. In my opinion that’s how full screen apps should work.

Of course, deep down when we talk about the core technologies, Windows still lags behind the Mac. E.g., DLL sucks; font rendering sucks; virus sucks. But my point is, after using and rediscovering Windows over the past few months, using Windows in 2020 feels less of a compromise than it did a decade ago.