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I don't even know if windows is good or not now. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by rarsamx@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I see so many people claiming that windows is crap and that's why they moved to Linux.

That got me thinking: I can no longer have an opinion in the matter. I haven't used Windows at home since 2004. I used it at work until the beginning of 2019 but someone else maintained it, since then, I haven't had the need to touch windows.

Whether good or bad, I feel I'm not as knowledgeable as I was.

Well, actually, two years ago I cleaned up and "revived" my dad's desktop which was taking two minutes to boot and about the same time to open the first app. After installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough. However, isn't it the main criticism about Linux? That you "need to know" to use it?

People complain about Linux drivers, but as far as I remember, it was quite common that new versions of Windows dropped old drivers and your perfectly good printer/scanner/video card/etc. became a paperweight. Is that still the case?

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I use both at home and at work. For work some of our contract work is supporting large customer installs. There was a definite performance hit with Windows 10 (upgrading software on same hardware). So much so that we had endless customer calls on why the application was now slow. Windows11 has the same issue, plus some other janky stuff. But now windows 11 has ai.exe and aimgr.DLLs running in the background as part of Office install. It will regularly grind PCs to a halt, even when not using Office.

The one work application had a Linux version, the Linux version remained the same speed as always. While the windows app gets slower every release.

At home my wife's laptop was 2010, upgrading to W10 made it absolutely unusable to even navigate with file explorer. I put Linux on it, and she runs spreadsheet and her zoom calls as well as my brand new work workstation. Granted it can't compete for video edit render output, just doesn't have modern CPU/GPU.

There may be some odd hardware where you have to find a driver, but 95% of drivers are built into the kernel. You just plug stuff in and it works without having to install shady apps like windows.

If you have a specific Windows only app(that for some reason can't run under WINE) then stay with Windows, but otherwise with some mental adjustment you will find Linux just works and makes for a nicer user experience.

Windows Recall should turn off everybody. A system that captures everything you do and holds it forever is going to be a backdoor hack into your entire life. All a country has to do is get Pegasus software to infiltrate your system via a bad URL vulner and they can watch everything you do.