Even if Windows became so shitty, people would rather move to MacOS than they would to Linux.

I liked it back in the day, but I don’t mess with that stuff no more. That’s how you get another GlaDOS.

With “everything works” they obviously mean almost everything works almost all of the time. It is an exaggeration. Nothing is perfect.

The privacy nightmare only matters if you care about privacy, which the average user doesn’t.

Copilot can be disabled or just ignored in every software it is enabled.

There are also plenty of valid reasons why people recommend Windows 11 over Linux, Apple, and especially Windows 10.

I know you Linux users get bombarded with “windows bad” posts claiming nothing works on Windows. But reality is quite different. The average user doesn’t care about the things a Linux user cares about. And Linux users also tend to overestimate the capabilities of the average user.

Like, there are so many people in developed nations who don’t even have an internet connection. They are also part of the average users.

They’re portable and don’t require that I install anything. If I’m looking for an odd tool, it’s usually the easiest way to download and test something out. It’s just nice to have a standalone executable.

Flatpaks are fine, I really have no problem with them in theory but I spend twice as long configuring them as I do with a native program, and I have to trust that the maintainer is affiliated with the project, which isn’t always the case.

And yet when I use it things break.

That says more about you than it does Windows. So many users have never had any issue with their Windows computers.

Not shopped, but that is a hardware issue and has nothing to do with Windows.

If you ran Linux on it, you would have the same issue. Just the screen wouldn’t be blue.

And just because it happens to a couple of users, doesn’t mean it is true for the entire userbase.

It is a small feature used by a handful of users. It does not affect anyone else.

If this happened on Linux it wouldn’t get reported on. But because of the ginormous userbase of Windows, they do.

Some time ago I wanted to get my xbox controller to work with Linux Mint. There were no working drivers installed, the drivers from the ‘app store’ (whatever it’s real name may be) didn’t work, the drivers I installed from some github page via the command line did work.

That isn’t going to help the average user though. They need hand holding.

Unless you don’t want mass adoption of Linux.

I feel like if you made a Venn diagram between Lemmy users and Linux users, it would just be a circle. I say this as also a Linux enjoyer.

I don’t see what relevance that comment has to mine. Why did you write this?

I’m a lemmy user, I don’t currently use linux. So your point is not correct.

More importantly, I wasn’t saying anything about linux users, I’m pointing out the the source that was posted is a blogspam non-reputable source.

Did you ever use windows before XP?

Many games are still not functional on Linux. Here is a link showing which ones aren’t just due to their anti-cheat features. That doesn’t include games that aren’t compatible for other reasons.

Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?

(areweanticheatyet.com)

game companies are entrenched, tools, libraries, think hardware emulation layers like DirectX. and installed os monopoly. linux exists because of diy types unwilling to pay someone else to do it. if you know how, make lusers pay you to do it for them. they can’t understand the details. wasting your breath

You somehow made me aware Gates had to use either an UNIX derivative (iPhone) or a Linux derivative (Android) daily.

It’s pretty rare to find a game that doesn’t work for a reason that isn’t anticheat. I would say the few that are incompatible definitely classify as the exception and not the rule.

I was going to reply with this:

Gnome

Ahh.

Huh? Are you using an ISO from 2004 or something? I’ve never used a terminal on my PC outside of windows. On Linux I don’t even have one installed.

In my experience Windows is bewilderingly complicated, prone to breakage, full of spying/ads, and is a bit of a UX/UI nightmare.

It also just… turns sluggish over time. I’m not 100% sure why, but running their sketchy-looking disk cleanup utility seems to do the trick. Why it has to be something the user knows about and regularly carries out manually is beyond me, though.

I just want my PC to work, not fight me, and not feel like a chore to use. Windows cannot give me that.

I’m not playing any games with anticheat and I’m working so much I only play single player. Linux won for me

So it just happens that I’m always unlucky with the hardware in all 3 gaming desktop PCs that I’ve built over the last ~14 years that they would have this behaviour? (Bluescreen out of nowhere, without any intensive hardware usage or weird behaviour or anything that justifies triggering this)

I haven’t ran Linux on this machine yet, but I’m more likely to go for it with each passing day. I can let you know how it goes and how many crashes I get. I don’t expect any, as I’ve been using Linux on my laptops for close to 10 years now and the only time I had a hardware problem was because I was using my old laptop as a server and its HDD died - but that’s because HDD laptops are not meant for these usage patterns, so totally expected tbh.

I find it super interesting that there is this pushback from you and the other user here saying “Windows doesn’t have any problems”, which now turns into “Ah but that’s hardware and Linux would have it too!” - How can you know?? How can you make such an apt diagnosis that it’s not a Windows-only issue with practically zero information??

Because if we are just blindly applying patterns then yes I can do the same - I’ve literally never had a running Linux system crash on me, from running it in VMs, Cloud VPSs, Laptops and even a Raspberry Pi. And in the same timeframe I’ve had more random blue screens on Windows than I can count. And I can tell you that I looked quite hard at a few of them to try and avoid triggering them. The only one I managed to figure out was that in a Laptop X USB-powered headset combo I could never start up the system with the headset connected, as if the cable was messed with and the dongle lost connection, it would immediately blue screen the laptop. But if it booted with the USB dongle disconnected and I connected it later, it was totally fine!! - Even with this crash being caused by hardware, how can you say that this is a reasonable behaviour from a “production-ready” OS? The latter behaviour tells us that it is totally possible to handle this hardware error without a full system crash, but it can happen all the same!

I honestly don’t understand what you or the other user get from being so adamant about Windows being good, or being “not that bad”, or just “Windows isn’t the problem here, you are” I hope at least Microsoft pays you well for the advertising!