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I think the same can be said for Windows 8.x and 10. The "old ways"
of managing systems are impractical with these versions, and many
have a hard time understanding and accepting the best way to manage
them.

anything that requires the user to manually manage it is fundamentally
broken.

There is a difference between flexibility, allowing the user to tweek
and manage his/her OS as he/she sees fit, and low maintenance. MS have
a difficult problem with balancing the two, and the main reason thay
have always released different versions of their current Windows, so
people can choose their level of flexibility against level of
automation. Nobody wants an OS that cannot be tweeked to perform and
work to a set requirement

few people tweak the os itself. there is no need.

what people do is install apps to do whatever tasks they have.

yet nobody wants to have to spend half their
time on a PC performing housekeeping, although all OS's require some
housekeeping of some discription.

nope. definitely not all.

you're so used to dealing with windows being broken and *needing*
housekeeping that you assume every other os is equally broken.

fortunately, that's not the case.

Even a carpet needs vaccuming once
in a while.

irrelevant. a carpet is not an operating system.