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What a fucking lie. Everything I do in Linux opens up a pandoras box of googling answers to 3 separate problems for every step of every process.
Linux has been slowly getting better.
Windows has been rapidly getting worse.
At some point, not recently, the bullshit factor for using Windows got much, much higher than Linux.
It cost me about 7-8 hours to set up linux mint to dual boot with my windows machine and not have issues anymore. Except one: It could not launch games.
Felt like wasted time, by sharing this story have had some suggestions as to what it could be but I’m waiting on my new system before trying it again.
Counterpoint, every game i’ve tried to play on linux has worked easily, and I’ve saved a ton of time by having a faster machine that i don’t have to waste time debloating or troubleshooting every time it encounters some stupid issue. Linux has been way more effortless than windoes ever was for me.
Really wish it was that way for me. I’ve been wanting to switch for so long but I’ve been turning it off, now when I actually tried it I basically just wasted 2 entire evenings after my workdays instead of actually gaming and having fun.
I haven’t had any issues on windows except a few blue screens for years. Linux was nothing but troubleshooting and needing to almost read all of the 1st page of my search before having fixed it. Don’t even mind installing something that’s not in the software manager or whatever its called, that’s not included in my setup time and something I’d still have to figure out.
Right, doesn’t take time.
Except for the crap that doesn’t work out of the gate, like my 10 year old Logitech mouse or my new one).
Or SMB that retains your creds even though you didn’t check the box, and when I spent an hour searching for why, found there was no why but I have to use a command line to clear those creds.
Come on, don’t be disingenuous. No, more accurately, don’t lie. The statement made in this post is a blatant lie. As someone who uses Linux every day, and first started tinkering with it about 2006, I can attest to the time it’s taken to do some basic things. Like get any remote control app to work - where you have to edit config files (and know whether it uses spaces or tabs for delineation, and that maybe this app considers the last entry to be definitive)… In the twenty-first century.
I use Proxmox and Unraid every day. Don’t get me started on the terrible design choices in Proxmox. One thing is in the gui, though the gui doesn’t show it accurately, so you gotta use command line to see the detail, but the layout is… Command line, so seeing config info quickly just ain’t gonna happen.
On and on.
Linux is fantastic, but let’s stop this nonsense arguing that it takes no effort. I’ve spent more time on one machine recently, just getting installed, then I have on my last 20 windows installs (I do a lot of machine building and testing, not unusual to install Windows 2 or 3 times in a day). In fact, that particular machine still isn’t fully up - and it was running Debian for a couple months last year so I know it’s compatible and runs everything fine.
With Windows I boot the thumb drive, pick the OS, answer 15 questions, and walk away. Come back in 45 minutes and Windows is waiting for me. Linus I get to answer just as many questions, but it may/may not install completely. Or my wifi card won’t be there, or another driver.
