https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMfNKcd298
"I actually prefer Windows over Linux as a foundational system—I just don’t like the Microsoft BS put on top of it. I think Windows is simply an easier and more straightforward system.
Trying to get non-tech-savvy users to go through a long, complex install process? Come on. A lot of people on the internet forget that when most users get home, they just want to pay some bills, watch some YouTube, play a game, or do something simple and then get off the computer. They don’t want to sit there dealing with a bunch of complex setup steps."
These are facts you will not like.
Let’s look at that, though, as we move from fact to memories and opinions. What I recall is the standard dev kit at the time was VanDyk SSH. That’s all they needed, but they used Mozilla as their mail and web client. They also needed a music player because of course – even if that was extra.
Windows provided all of those, and WinAMP, and it did two things reliably that Unix at the time didn’t: it booted well and it ran music smoothly. It provided a voice-chat client and ran that smoothly as well. The various chat apps of the time, which were probably three but felt like a dozen, also ran well.
In short, the crappy windows default platform didn’t ask for tweaking and gave the user an SSH client on demand. When highly-paid people don’t need to futz with modelines, the company doesn’t lose money it didn’t need to.
I tell you that to tell you this. Linux has grown up from the modeline days, but no distro is free of bizarre junk shoved in by some wunderkinder with more power than reviewers and pushed by a vendor hoping to create the next big thing – without stopping to ask whether it should, whether it’s useful for us. Machines boot a little more slowly and a little less reliably, and there is a non-zero risk that a very valuable dev’s machine will NOT be available when required. Windows has jammed their own shit into the OS - just privacy risk after ad spooge, on and on - but the thing it does well (when it’s not patching) is boot well and allow us to start Putty and WinAMP and Seamonkey.
And I’m not sure whether a reliable start into something with a bunch of ad spooge is better or not.
I SHOULD MENTION that I’m moving my geriatric mom, and others, to linux later this year. She’s ready, even if I don’t relish supporting her from 9 hours’ travel away.
And I love how the gif included was correct and almost perfect English, but every time it’s quoted there’s a different writing error.
You should’ve seen some of the Windows machines I had. Like 25% of them ran horribly and Linux was actually the perfect solution to a laptop I’d otherwise replace with a different model.
Not that Linux is perfect or anything, I have as much issues with it as with Windows. But that’s kinda my point, both suck, might as well use the one that doesn’t spy on me.
I get what you are saying but at the same time I have a MSI laptop that I bought in 2020. It has a nvidia video card.
Bloody thing was always a pain in the arse. I couldn’t plug the HDMI to the TV and get it working straight away.
Everytime I wanted to play on my TV I had to plug the HDMI, go to the device management, uninstall intel video drivers, same with the nvidia drivers then reinstall first the nvidia driver then the intel one.
And that only worked until I turned the PC or it went into hibernation.
Now that it’s running on Win11, no amount of driver reinstall can get it to work. It’s laptop screen or bust.
With Linux I just plug the HDMI in and it works. The only limitation is that I can’t get it to work with 4K60, as it should. It only works with 1080p30.
But I guess I can’t always win…
“And I love how the gif included was correct and almost perfect English, but every time it’s quoted there’s a different writing error.” XD