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

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was a Windows user up until last year. I ditched it for EOS after I got tired of telling Windows NO I DON'T WANT WINDOWS 11 for the 500th time. Between having to manually remove Cortana, Edge, trackers and spyware and having ads shoved in my notifications, I couldn't stand it anymore.

Now, as an average user they're not gonna care about any of that. Hell, I didn't start caring until I upgraded from 7 to 10 (I deliberately skipped 8) and they started enshitification. 10 was good, at first. It's what they added that made it unbearable.

My biggest praise of Linux over Windows is not having to check for updates for different programs manually. I just hit sudo pacman -Syu and it does it all. Proton just makes my games work and I can do everything I did in Windows. Can I play AAA games with anticheat? Yes, but not all games. The ones I can't, I really don't feel the desire to play anymore anyway.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He uses Arch, btw

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

Don't say that. The arch fans will come to point out that Arch based isn't true Arch then put you to death for wasting their time.