Why would anybody run Windows? Honestly: it's officially a platform for corporate surveillance, ad delivery and now for ramming AI shit nobody wants down everybody's throats. And you pay for the privilege.

There are alternatives to Windows. If you like corporate rape, Apple is the lesser evil. If you can't stand corporate rape, Linux is very mature and very usable by your average Joe these days.

In other words, if you run Windows and you have problems, well sorry but half of the blame is on you.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

Work forces us....

But yeah everything in the house is Linux or *NIX based.

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

At the risk of stirring up the "just use Linux" woodwork: because the mantra always seems to fall apart once the use case exceeds web browsing and light gaming.

Loosely quoting one of my own comments from a few months ago:

I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year, I made it about a month before I gave up and went back to windows. I had an absolute nightmare with my type-c KVM (frequently, but irregularly causing the machine to freeze and require a reboot). Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card (oh sure, Steam will pass the arg, but only if Steam itself doesn't crash loop due to the "use video acceleration" setting being bugged)). Add in whatever random auth/config issues I got trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD and graphic design work).

My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I'm not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.

Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!

Yes Windows really sucks, especially as of late, but I don't have to worry about my machine freezing when I connect an external display, and for the most part I can rein in the ad delivery and AI nonsense though group policy. Plus I have machines in my domain that are primarily used for CAD software (that isn't exactly known for playing nicely with Linux, thanks AutoDesk).

That said, I'm not opposed to trying a different distro at some point in the future, but I'm of the option that some time in the oven is still needed...

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Because most people know nothing about computers and aren't aware that running Windows is even a choice.