Windows doesn't "just work"
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You know what just works ? Bazzite. It's as easy to use as a PlayStation.
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Overall, I'm happy with Linux for everything. But it is a hard sell for your average person when you have to change the init configurations for every single game you download (even if it's just for enabling gamemode).
Also I'm am very curious as to how you even got a bluescreen. I don't even remember when I last saw one.
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The average user doesn't even know the registry exists.
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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.
