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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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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I partitioned 80gb off for work and installed Windows 10 on it. Install was fast, it found all of the drivers itself and had no bloatware using the Windows Media Creation Tool for another machine. Every device I have plugged into it or connected via Bluetooth has just worked. I don't have a printer, but I imagine if you have an old printer that you will have to fuck around with drivers to get it working if you can't use a generalized pcl driver for it. The entire OS with LibreOffice, and the work software I need runs on ~48gb with more than 30gb still free if I need random stuff but I don't think I will as I've been using it for 2 weeks already.

I don't have a Microsoft account signed into anything, and when I went to Windows Updates the first time I clicked the button that said "Don't upgrade to Windows 11".

Overall the OS is solid, I think it's mostly people worrying about bloatware (which often comes from Manufacturers, though Windows does some) and advertisements, and Microsoft trying to monitor people.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

10 is fine not great but fine. 11 is just a shitty OS. I'm glad that they didn't force update you like I know happened to some people.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I have the advantage of knowing what to look for as well, as I've deployed Windows to 1,000s if not 10,000 computers or more over the years.

So I knew to look to make sure it wasn't going to auto update, which I assume many don't think of it