• yuri@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      What the fuck, right? I’ve been on linux for more than a few years now, and I haven’t had any headaches equivalent to the shit windows was doing constantly. Like 80% of my files were made read-only and my privileges to change permissions were completely revoked for seemingly no reason. And that was just another, run of the mill issue.

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        6 months ago

        sounds like a skill issue to me. if you were any good at computers, you would’ve stuck to windows. have you even read the manual?

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      5 months ago

      Yeah I’m frequently having to open powershell/windows terminal or worse, attempt to navigate the shitshow of complexity that is the windows registry to do the most basic things.

      I don’t have to do that on my Linux machines.

      Plus since MS fired most of their QA team, there’s been the occasional crazy issue. My audio wasn’t working for months after a windows update. I did a system restore, I uninstalled and reinstalled audio drivers, but nothing worked. Then months later, suddenly it did. That just isn’t acceptable for a product that costs as much as Windows does, and continues making even more money by spying on the user and selling the information.

      I feel like because of the decline in usability of windows since 7, and the perpetual improvements to Linux, we now see Linux being the easier choice.

      If Dell/HP/others started putting Linux on most of their machines, I don’t think it’d cause issues for most people at all.