Windows doesn't "just work"
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Windows sure is bad, though I haven't seen an actual blue-screen in years. That's some foul luck.
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Yes absolutely! Active directory is very powerful
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Indeed it is difficult to hammer it in to shape. In addition, Microsoft will often quietly reset setting back in their favour. It's that constant fight that tipped the scales for me.
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All operating systems suck, some just suck harder than others.
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In my experience, a stable beginner friendly distro such as mint, is 10x closer to "just working" but...
I do think that the windos DE tends to be more reliable than any linux DE I have tested. The only DE that compares is gnome, which I find very very stable (but I hate it)
I think that non-technical people are just used to a simple playbook of:
- GUI is rarely the issue, so you never need to see the terminal.
- If there is an issue, restart
- If that didn't work, ask for help from your local techy
And for linux step 3 usually doesn't work because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste into cmd.
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It isn't about laziness it's about principles.
I simply won't argue with someone that refuses to provide their sources.
Doesn't matter if they say something dubious about Windows, say that vaccines cause autism, or that the earth is flat. -
Does Sea of Thieves work on Linux? I thought it had kernel anti-cheat.
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That's the first time I'm hearing this experience, thanks for the input! Changed my mind
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Here, it's the "writing style" applet, it also exists in 11.
Science would be wild if the onus of finding citations would be on the readers, this mindset is dangerous and the mark of room temp IQ.
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Now I'm imagining an angry Gentoo penguin snapping at fingers any time someone wants to use their PC
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It's definitely an abusive relationship.
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Relax, mate. I’m not trying to take away your Windows Server. Just talking about how bad windows is from end user perspective.. absolute rubbish, barely usable, nearly impossible to troubleshoot.
I’m glad you get along with it from your IT professional/server admin role.
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This was sorta my fault, but I'm counting it. I have been flashing meshtastic devices recently and flashed two just fine from fedora (just had to DL ungoogled chromium because fuck chrome but librewolf can't access serial ports so..), tried to flash a third from my friend's windows PC and it just would not recognize it in the serial monitor, tried for like an hour being dumb, then I remembered drivers exist, downloaded one set of drivers, couldn't install lord knows why, downloaded a second set that finally worked on a reboot and got it flashed.
I understand that sometimes you still have to install drivers on Linux too, but can we stop pretending you don't have to on windows? What's more while I was in there and edge wasn't using my serial port my friend said to install a chrome based anyway to try, and I had to find the damn download pages instead of using a package manager, absolute madness.
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And for linux step 3 usually
doesn'tworks because your local techy is probably someone who just knows how to google and paste intocmdthe terminal. -
Tempted to put this through let me google that for you just to be smug, but here's the direct link instead since I'm sure I'd also need to click the results for you. Do I need to read this to you too?
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I tried connecting my bluetooth earbuds to my PC. Alright, the setup itself was fine. But then the problems started. My earbuds support opus codec for audio. Do you think I can change the bluetooth codec easily, just like on Linux? Nope. There is no way to do it without some third party programs. And don’t even get me started on Windows randomly changing my default audio output and trying to play sound through my controller.
Bro wait until you want to use them for a call. How do you tell it to switch to call mode when it won't by default. Ah yeah that's right, you can't. And if you do, good luck switching it back for music when you're done. I've had friends who got bluetooth headphones and tried to use them wireless on Windows and it's just a battle every single time
