You get to choose between hardware dependency hell and software dependency hell these days.
Linux is just all around snappier for me than windows is. I never have to wait, but on windows there are always delays opening windows and for some reason it will keep trying to generate thumbnails.
I really hate using windows. I’m a worse worker because of it. I’m just waiting for the m3 Macs to switch.
Sadly, my work stuff does not work on Linux. So I have a second computer for most of my work.
I have found Linux to have excellent HW support for all older hardware. Only notable exception is fingerprint readers. Granted, it’s been years since I tried gaming.
I was flirting with Linux for 20 years. There was always something that put me off an I went back to Windows. Recently I installed ubuntu with Kde plasma and I’m not going back. It just works and is heaps faster on older hardware. The old driver issues are gone, compatibility is awesome. The only issue is getting used to new software names.
One word: printers. Linux isnt event plug and pray, it just detects it.
I don’t think I’ve met anyone who enjoys windows 11 unless they’re like 75 years old and only click on google chrome and the power off button
I use Windows for work and gaming, MacOS for app development (mostly because I can code for iOS and Android in one environment), and ChromeOS for my daily browsing.
I just enjoy how chrome always works when I need to just browse the internet or buy something online without issue.
Windows: “We dropped support for that thing you bought brand new 5 years ago”
Linux: “We are considering dropping support for something that has existed for longer than you had”
There’s not a lot of things that stupid people can say, that would genuinely frustrate me, but when you make uneducated, factless statements, and then decide to fanboy about something in the same sentence, that genuinely frustrates me
To whom are you responding to?
Just so we are clear, are you hating on Linux or windows fan boys?
All fanboys are annoying, no matter what they’re fans of
Why not both?
I upgraded my Intel system to AMD today. And I didn’t have to reinstall a damn thing, because my existing Linux installation Just Worked™. It really is to the point that I could never imagine going back to Windows.
There’s this thing I notice. If windows asks you to learn something or put up with some BS it’s seen as the cost of business, reasonable, or simply not even noticed. If Linux requires you to learn something, like read one article about which distro might work best for you, it’s seen as an insurmountable difficulty or an absurd ask.
Linux is cool and all but can it tell if I’m watching porn and suggest me other porn like windows 11?
Linux desktop is garbage. Devs should focus their efforts elsewhere.
The company I work at only works with windows Servers
deleted
deleted by creator
deleted
You’ve moved the goalposts. CPU is one thing that is objectively wrong. My older gen i7 doesn’t work with Win11 and has no problem with all the distros I’ve thrown at it.
Nvidia GPU is totally different from CPU. I think most reasonable Linux folks will agree that Nvidia drivers can be problematic and that is a weak point.
Readable would be a start. I’m still not entirely sure what it is I’m being misinformed about.
Would you like some dressing with your word salad? Nothing you said actually makes sense or reflects reality.
deleted
Do you not understand the concept of negative numbers? That minus in front of the 6 means you’re getting the opposite of upvotes.
deleted
Since nobody gave you an actual response yet, you can see Linux-compatible hardware here: https://linux-hardware.org/
Note: The list is much larger than Windows, for everything from CPUs to peripherals
I’ve always been able to read that my kernel is included in an update.
Are you updating throught he command line or some visual front?
And 1200 packages? I run arch (btw) and only get ~250 a week.
I’ve always found the Tpm complaints a little suspicious. The same people who go on and on about how much they worry about security and privacy and how MS doesn’t care, suddenly just don’t give a shit in these cases. I assume they mostly just want to shit on stuff.
It’s a good to push to make it standard and hardware manufacturers wont without a good old shove.
I complain about TPM because it made my system unable to boot without desactivating it, i don’t really care about TPM but the implementation seems disastrous
I’ve yet to run into a CPU that doesn’t work with 11
Every AMD processor from the Ryzen 1000-series and older. I’m not sure where the line is with Intel processors, but requiring TPM excludes a lot of otherwise useful hardware.Looking for a more stable distro could be a good idea. Some distros are pretty much only PoC, or too niche to have a good support, or the beta channel of another, better supported distro.
Besides, Windows can be very laggy even on supported hardware.
