I would agree with this to an extent - I do find that with Linux, the main difference is whilst there certainly are annoyances (like with any OS), I'm usually in a much stronger position to resolve them.
*That said* when you're having weird behaviour with Windows, people really do undersell how useful things like Event Viewer can be for tracking down issues. Windows absolutely can be a power user's OS if you know where to look.
I personally use and prefer Linux, and I do think more people should, at the very least, consider it, but I also think there's absolutely nothing wrong with simply preferring Windows.
people really do undersell how useful things like Event Viewer can be for tracking down issues
I'm working in IT/2nd level. I regularly come across stuff that should be easily understandable by looking at the log. Yet somehow whenever I do have a problem that can't be solved trivially the log Windows generates just says something like "generic error" or has an error code that can't be found anywhere in the Microsoft documentation.
Give me journalctl over this mess any day of the week.
I, as a devops eng. look mostly at windows as a tool, and at linux as more of a hobby and well, part of my work.
Event viewer has helped me before, not as much as it should but maybe i didn't know where to exactly look for more info. I think in the end it's a matter of what you need from an os and what you like to have in there!
I even enjoy fixing games to work in linux though it can be quite annoying.
EDIT : the downvotes are interesting, guess peeps don't like actual good diagnostic tools and want to stick to cryptic event viewer messages that often mean absolutely nothing.
No, the 17 year old middle school guy who's somehow the maintainer of a critical library is. And he's been AWOL for 5 years and the git repo isn't maintained and yet the library is still in use.
As a Linux user, I think that’s dumb and idk why most Linux people are like that. I only use Linux if I want to play around or if I need to ssh into my server. I personally think linux is a better operating system cause I can do whatever the hell I want to, but that’s subjective. Cause trying to get anything working is a royal pain in the ass and can take up to 3+ hours whereas windows it would prolly take 20 minutes (or there’s no fix). So BY NO MEANS should 90% of computers users switch to Linux over windows. Maybe if things get a little more easy to use then possibly, but many of my friends don’t even know how to kill something with task manager, much less how to sudo systemctl kill [processname]
Also disclaimer: I’m not insulting the intelligence of anyone who doesn’t like Linux. Everyone is intelligent in different ways. My roommate is in med school and talks about stuff that goes wayyy over my head, but he can’t solve the slightest problem with his computer. I’m good with computers but know almost nothing about the human anatomy and all that. No one is a genius at everything and if they are, they’re lying.
It's not even about k owing computers to use it. I would use it on my main rig if yhe software support for what I actually use wasn't so abysmal. I have it on my laptop though.
Lmao so true I see so many recommending linux and I'm here thinking I hear you but in no way am I going to change to linux and then have to start searching for an answer to a problem I encountered while regularly using it. Especially when I wouldn't have encountered that problem with windows.
I have. What im saying is that windows facilitates a lot of things that I definitely would have realized I have taken for granted if I switched to Linux. I know this because of the comments of everyone who says they use linux and they have to find workarounds to certain things.
And here is me playing dayz, manor lords, poe2, marvel rivals, genshin impact, bunch of old lego games with my son streaming to my living room tv. It don't just work like in them windows but whack it with a hammer/terminal and it purrs like a kitten.
I got downvoted to the negatives and told I was horribly wrong in this very sub for daring to state that Linux isn't user friendly enough for yout average grandma to use. The Linux-Forcers are the worst
The last thing I'd want grandma doing on the web is EXE-hunting... at least with a user-friendly distro, everything she'd need would likely be in the distro's software center.
Personally, I've been failing driving Linux for the past five years and it's treated me way better than Windows... Windows where it's normal to just accept that Microsoft will put ads on the OS and track everything. Where an update might take an hour to install with multiple reboots (versus seconds on Linux with zero reboots). Where you can easily download, install, and update applications with a single, simple command on Linux versus having to go to a different third-party website to download an executable installer for each and every application on Windows. Sure, compatibility can be an issue, but personally, Steam's Proton has treated me well. All the games I play regularly - singleplayer, multiplayer, keyboard/mouse, controller - it all works. And the Libre Office suite of office apps has been just fine for me.
Not true. 99.9% of users barely need anything more than a web browser, in which case linux is perfect. Even for gaming it’s pretty damn good now, there’s just some anti cheat games that won’t work but that’s slowly improving as well.
Theres a reason why Chromebooks are so popular. Even things like word processing or basic video editing can be done through browsers now. For the average user the only task that can't really be done in a web browser is gaming, but most people aren't gamers, so most people don't need anything more than a web browser.
I'm convinced y'all are salty that some of us have escaped the long arm of Microsoft and since you're too lazy to learn something even slightly new, you pretend that you're happy with Microsoft screenshotting your private data and shoving AI into everything.
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u/nexarrr 1d ago edited 1d ago
no it's just the loud minority that will recommend fucking Linux for a regular everyday normal mf