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This is a federated platform. Nobody here is a regular user akin to a tech-illiterate user at a company. Typical users here likely have the ability to read, which is all I needed to install all common (gaming/user-focused) distributions on my hardware.
I gave plenty of reasons why it works better for me. I have no special Linux knowledge and I use an entirely vanilla setup.
If all you're losing is your specialty audiophile hardware, which you paid good money to consume, you're not a regular user. Regular end-user hardware works fine, whether your GPU is NVIDIA or AMD.
Unpatched admin account access, sub-par security features/process isolation, and running on the most common operating system targeted by malware is harmful to regular users. Windows Defender sending everything you download to their cloud is an invasion of privacy. No regular user of LTSC would know how to disable Windows Defender or even know how to use the group policy editor to disable exposed sources of telemetry. Since finding a source of LTSC is more difficult for regular users, they'd likely experience less hiccups just downloading a common Linux distribution and putting it on a flash drive. The principles of installing most user-focused Linux distributions are the same as the Windows Installer when proceeding with a graphical setup to write the operating system to your drive.
The reason that recently sparked me to switch to Linux was my bluetooth headphones not receiving audio when my screens turned off on Windows. My microphone frequently not working unless I uninstalled the drivers and rebooted. Take that in for a second. Neither device is uncommon for regular users. No, my computer wasn't going to sleep/hibernating.
You are doing mental gymnastics
And you are free to feel that way or disagree with me.
And both of you are being fucking assholes on the internet. This is what I hate the Fediverse userbase for, shit like this. Ffs, shut up!
Fact is, Windows is being purposefully turned into a surveillance tool. Fact is, Linux sucks.
The former is undeniable, and EVERYONE should be using Linux because of that.
The latter is true because it took me TWO DAYS to set up Linux Arch and most people who own a desktop PC are professionals using it for work who don't have two days to set up an OS or search for one that has minimal setup.
But let's assume Arch Linux is being used for the other main Windows use, for gaming. If that's the case, buying one means you value time more than money, and if you're building a gaming PC, you value getting what you asked for over ideology.
Any other Linux OS is subpar for gaming except in niche scenarios where you'll be on Steam and only Steam.
In short, we're fucked. We can't use Windows or Linux. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Trump, and fuck both of you. GO AWAY.