Windows doesn't "just work"
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I tried Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE and gnome. The only one that I can't recall having any issues with is Gnome.
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Yeah that's hard to see when i have to boot windows for work every weekday.
The issues are the little things, like 300ms lag here or there where things are instant on Linux. Or the flashing taskbar icon when an app wants your attention. Or the obfuscated settings. Or the 'everything is an edge applet'. Or the cpu fans racing to send data back and forth with MS services. (Seriously try simplewall sometime. It's scary to see the connections, and blocking them makes your computer silent)
Booting into Linux at the end of the day is such a relief every single time.
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I have a wireless keyboard. It comes with its own dongle, so you can expect it to work with some generic keyboard driver. I plugged into my USB-hub, works just fine on Linux. No lag, no nothing.
On Windows? Well, it works, but the audio device I have plugged in just straight up refuses to function while the dongle is in there. It seems to gobble up pretty much the entire bandwidth. Amazing.
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Sure. And this is why we have measles outbreaks still today.
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I'm not trying to be difficult but I genuinely don't follow. I print and write emails at work all the time and cannot relate.
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Eh, Gentoo is pretty quiet most of the time once you've got it installed. After that, you just have to keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't go off its meds (although once every few years, it will come up with a weird and wonderful way of doing so that you can't block.)
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Automated command-line jobs, in my case, which are technically not random but still annoying, because they don't need to show a window at all. Interestingly, the one thing I can get to absolutely not pop up any window ever are Perl scripts using Win32::Detached . . . which means that it is possible, but Microsoft doesn't bother to expose such a facility.
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In my experience as well, fedora just works more than windows.
Games work and run better without crashing. No bsods. No needing to manually start drivers for my tablet and restart my DAC.Only thing windows has is coherent one release and exclusives in terms of a few softwares. Like adobe which is a scam now.
And the second advantage will vanish with more people on linux.
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I wanted to try the gamer windows distro. Aurora or atlas or whatever.
Its install wanted me to manually get drivers. I wasn't feeling like doing annoying tech stuff and troubleshooting so i just got fedora instead. -
Yeah on my Linux desktop, it's plugged into the TV for watching shows, so I sometimes switch between the PC Line Out and HDMI audio. The Linux audio logic seems to be "I'll stay at whatever you last set me to, until you set me to something else", which makes perfect sense.
On Windows, it seems to be some combination of whatever device Windows thinks was last plugged in (which is very rarely what was actually plugged in last) whether it's an audio device or not, combined with the phase of the moon in whatever location Windows thinks it's in (which is also rarely correct.)
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My exact experience too. Fedora "just works". I especially like the immutable varieties for even more "just works (and continues to just works)-iness"
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Maybe I should have specified print to PDF.
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Third party licensed apps are everything on Windows.
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I had one last week because of Storage problems.
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I think problems that could be solved are generic hardware compatibility. Being able to install Wi-Fi adapters and Digital Tokens easily on Linux would go a long way. I think it will get there, though.
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I think Windows is successful because it creates a nice Enterprise environment, where companies can easily get into investing into new apps to use in their offices. I think that's why it's successful.
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You just get forced update while you're in the middle of work and random settings resets.
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I get what you are saying, and Windows is absolutely frustrating at times but so is Linux and especially MacOS.
I'm no developer but I do really get that Windows isn't the best suited OS for some development work, but calling it barely usable in general is just ridiculous.
It's certainly not impossible to troubleshoot either. You just need to learn it, like how you have to learn any OS.
I won't argue that it isn't rubbish, that's fair enough. There is a lot of bullshit with Windows and Microsoft
The main reason Linux clients are largly missing in most IT environments is that managing it on a scale comparable to Windows clients is hard. Afaik there isn't a great way to push out configuration, policies, certificates. And making it all be seamless.
Unmanaged windows clients might be quite bad, but together with stuff like active directory it just works really well for authentication and is part of a good ecosystem that in general just works. The various admin tools for Active Directory are quite annoying to use since they haven't been developed in years and are missing obvious features. Fortunately you can just use Powershell.
I really really wish Linux were better in these enterprise aspects, I wish we could pivot more to Linux for all users or at least for those that don't need specialized software like CAD. There is a large possibility that the majority of our users would riot if we did that though.
For the record I personally like Linux a lot and would absolutely run exclusively Linux if windows wasn't my work. I will probably get my home pc on Linux someday, but I haven't yet because it's simply just so much easier for me to fix Windows when it breaks compared to fixing Linux which always turns into a huge rabbit hole for me. It's also just in general annoying to switch OS since I have TBs of data on it.
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Also I’m am very curious as to how you even got a bluescreen. I don’t even remember when I last saw one.
That's the thing - I wasn't really doing anything. I had my web browser open, had steam running in the background. I moved my mouse around and then got jumpscared with a blue screen saying "unexpected store exception". I even managed to catch the blue screen on camera and send it to my friend to make that "windows just works" joke.
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Sure, all software has vulnerabilities, I just don't think people will bother to exploit my particular software combination since it's rare
