• systemglitch@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah Linux is fun, until it breaks a week or two later. I’ll stick with windows, because it never breaks.

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      8 months ago

      Windows never breaks? Uhhhhh, that’s definitely not true. When I have to use Windows, I brace myself every time I have to update.

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        8 months ago

        When did you last use windows, lol? Windows is pretty damn stable nowadays. I don’t think an update has ever broken my windows 10 install that is still going from 2016.

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          8 months ago

          I’ve gotten a number of calls from clients recently where a Windows update uninstalled the Bluetooth drivers, making their Bluetooth mouse and keyboard unusable.

          I’ve even had a few where an update uninstalled the WiFi drivers so they couldn’t even download the drivers without a wired network connection.

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            8 months ago

            Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.

            If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.

            Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.

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              8 months ago

              that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for

              Curious as to which distro you were using?

              (Yeah, I know, but please, humor me.)

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        8 months ago

        It’s been about four years since windows broke on me enough to do a reinstall. Linux lasts a month with me being gentle.

        It’s a no brainer.

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          I run arch BTW, 7 years throwing it down stairs, running commands that I had no idea what they did, learned linux from scratch deleting chunks of my hdd compiling and installing random software, never once had it break bad enough to reinstall . I bet you love ltt too haha… maby you should stick to a beginner os like Windows, I’ve heard Apple is even easier… or why don’t you just pay someone smarter than you to host and troubleshoot your os while they market your info and habits to the highest bidder… oh wait

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        8 months ago

        He must be deleting all the weird files on the c drive. I better empty the recycle bin sudo rm -rf /bin

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      Been running Arch on my work laptop for over a year. Still waiting for the fabled difficulty and update breaks. Starting to think in modern times its perpetuated to keep people on Windows.

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        8 months ago

        Must be nice. It’s been about seven years since I last dove into Linux, so maybe things have changed. But also in that time, windows became even more stable than it was, and it’s silky smooth these days.

        I don’t see any benefits to even trying Linux again.

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          8 months ago

          “Please sign into your microsoft account to continue.” After entering my PIN.
          Ads in the greeter.
          lightdm-gtk-greeter does neither of these things.

          Ads in my menu along “news and interests”
          dmenu simply searches my applications.

          Don’t even get me started on the themes either.

          Now that proton has brought steam into the mix windows no longer makes sense for gaming rigs, only office chuds who think computers are magic.

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      8 months ago

      Linux breaking depends on mostly 2 thing:

      1. The user. Depending on what they try to do, it can easily break Linux. (looking at me somehow breaking KDE Plasma and somehow fixing it without understanding how it broke or how I fixed it)

      2. Updating (from what I understand, mostly a big issue on rolling release distros like Arch or Manjaro). Bleeding edge software with major bugs the stable release don’t get can always cause instability.

      Though, I will say, that I’ve never had win10 crash on me unless I have too much stuff open or am being an absolute idiot. Windows always seems to be stable, at least I’ve never had issues for a long time.

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        8 months ago

        Let’s be honest though. I’m a big fan of Linux/Unix systems, but if (not saying that’s necessarily the case) a normal user can break their installation by being a normal user, it’s not suited for normal users.
        Windows is a pain in the ass imo, but pretty hard for a normal user to break in my experience.

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      8 months ago

      Lol, I see what you did here.

      I may start doing this as well… I’m SO tired of every post about Windows being flooded with Linux supremecists.