Mostly just understanding what was there, what was necessary for my machine at the time and what was optional.

Yeah, but people who bring these things up act like everyone needs these things to get their day to day work done. Like everyone works in an architect office, industrial design firm or print marketing agency.

In the grand scheme of things the people who NEED to run Photoshop or CAD programs are edge cases.

The real reason people need windows for work is non-technical corporate and government IT departments. Windows management software (eg. Exchange) is too deeply embedded in the organisation and it is too time consuming and expensive to remove.

That’s a terrible joke that deserves the downvotes, because cancer is removed and I only wish the best to anyone who is diagnosed with it, but I laughed.