Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn’t switch inputs immediately, and I thought “Linux would have done that”. But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that’s a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I’m perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the “things that just work”. Often they do “just work”, and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don’t?

Thoughts?

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 months ago

    No. It really isn’t.

    Windows with the proper license and configuration is more stable, more productive, and that configuration takes less than an hour once for the life of the machine.

    In 2024 if you’re still bashing Windows for BSODs, stability, updates, etc, you’re doing it wrong. You can bash all day long for privacy violations and corporate greed but both of those are fixed with the proper version like Windows Enterprise. Costs more, but you are less of the product.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      I really wish I could BASH windows 🙂. Per customization, it’s a moving target. How TF do I get rid of the icon asking if I like the picture on my desktop? Registry edits? Go F yourself

      • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        I’m sure if you edit the registry inside emacs from a live iso boot from 6 burned CDs, it will unlock all the golden rainbow features you require.

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          … for the next 3 months, until a security update makes its way onto your device and also coincidentally breaks GRUB, hey look Recall is now enabled and opt-out.

    • oong3Eepa1ae1tahJozoosuu@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

      Ah yes, Windows, where you buy a licence for around 100€, still get ads (WTF) and bloatware you cannot get rid of, still are the beta tester for their shitty software, because they fired their QA department. That’s on top of a shitty OS that still does not allow multiple users being logged in simultaneously (only in Windows server) and AI shit baked in alongside spying tools (Recall is coming back soon).

      I could go on…

      • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 months ago

        Or… Read what I said. Spend the $300 on the enterprise license. No ads. No forced notifications. A single computer with multiple users at one time in a home environment is not a use case that would get any thought. Those that want it, can do it. And it’s easy, and free. Hyper-V is free and the licenses for the virtual machines are free too because the container host is windows. Lock an instance per output and voila. Recall won’t be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable. Just like forced updates are disabled in enterprise. Forced reboots disabled. Etc.

        If you want that experience you buy that experience.

        • oong3Eepa1ae1tahJozoosuu@lemmy.world
          31·
          2 months ago

          Sorry, but no. 300 USD for an OS is absolutely absurd. Just to be “on the safer side” from MS and its shitty tactics?

          “Recall won’t be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable”

          Sweet summer child, I pity you. How anyone can still have any trust in MS is beyond me, but so be it.

          • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
            23·
            2 months ago

            $300 for the most important piece of software on the hardware that you interact with every day, sometimes all day, for years? That’s a steal.

            And again, as an OS, Windows just works and Linux doesn’t. Even if you wanted to set things manually in the registry to disable the bad consumer “features”, you’d still spend less time than configuring a standard Linux install and it would be more stable.

            It’s like Apple fan bois nowadays. Ridiculous.

            • oong3Eepa1ae1tahJozoosuu@lemmy.world
              21·
              2 months ago

              Yeah, keep paying ransom to a company that does not even manage to get the basic security right, it’s your money after all. I’m happy without Microsoft and with an OS that works and works for me, not some greedy CEO.