Nice bait and all but this is literally the other way around.
No. Windows has these “issues” if you use a diverse-enough set of apps, and there are quite-a-few things in won’t let you tweak without paid or uNtRuSteD apps that Linux will. The difference is that Linux includes more diverse apps by default, and doesn’t hide them away very well.
Personally, I love a bit of inconsistency, and Windows resides on my laptop because I’m more concerned with getting Linux onto my phone these days.
I’m more concerned with getting Linux onto my phone these days.
Ah, hello fellow masochist
jk im happy chrooting into a distro via termux, i dont have the money for an actual phone i can get linux into :<
I just spent $200 on eBay for a OnePlus 6T (which is the newest phone supported by postmarketOS). First impressions: it is buggy as all hell and running what is essentially a desktop Linux OS on a 5 inch touchscreen does not work as well as I had hoped it would, but it is open source and it does kind of work, and I’m hoping with a lot more experimentation I can get it to kind of work slightly better
linux “secure” lol
It’s open source, which in this case means a lot of people are working on it, and it is used on internet-facing computers, which means it can’t hide behind a residential firewall so has to be secure against every attack imaginable.
So yeah, the fact that is called merely “secure” is indeed lol, it should have been called “ultra mega super max secure”.
This is a seriously ironic take coming from someone whose username is a reference to the biggest breach of Linux security in history and the ease with which the trust needed to pull it off was gained
Bro/sis/enby read a random aah article and concluded that every sysadmin in the world is wrong 💀
This article is just one of several articles that cite vulnerabilities that GNU/Linux has. Open source is something I advocate but I am aware that the mere fact that a software is open source does not guarantee that it is secure. Many eyes checking the code did not prevent the xz Utils backdoor from being included in several distributions. The monolithic kernel is also problematic every day, more and more lines of code are added, further increasing the attack surface, among others. Just to name a few
Linux folks can get annoying sometimes, but Windows has become absolutely painful to use recently. It’s adware is absolutely disgusting, in line with everything else in corporate society. Every time I use my computer, I’m reminded that I live in a dystopia. When I get a new desktop, it sure as shit won’t run Windows.
Wow, I’m having so much fun staring at the start menu.
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
OP successfully triggered people, this isn’t even offensive (I use opensuse btw)
Well, the real problem is that Windows enjails people while GNU/Linux empowers by giving freedom
This is so true! I would say, especially on Lemmy, but I’m so late plenty of users already made that point for me. lol
That said, I’m just waiting for Microsoft to implement that copilot crap to finally maybe actually try to transition to linux - same reason I finally left reddit (I was basically forced off)
Yah, I got tired of reconfiguring my windows every-time it updated.
The little annoyances built up to a point where the 1 hour of migrating stuff over and booting up a new OS was worth it.
Someone loves sucking on micro soft dicks (joking, wanted to make the micro soft joke)
inconsistency with icons and design in some areas
Sounds like a straw man argument. What Linux user would cite that as a complaint against Windows?
(I use arch btw)
A noob, or anyone who spends too much time on /UnixDesktops without realizing that /rainmeter is also a thing.
Just answering your question. Debian here
I don’t think people’s #1 problem with Windows is that the icons are inconsistent sometimes.
Sure keep telling yourself that you enjoy all the ads, malware, garbage UI and UX, bloated size, cost, etc
Nobody has fun using windows, they just tolerate it.
i’m with you on everything else, but i don’t know if linux desktop as a whole is a shining example of good UX/UI, oof…
Yeah your expererience can vary a lot depending on what you use or start out with as a new user.
whats “linux desktop”?
- plasma certainly has better ux/ui than windows
- gnome definitely does too
- cinnamon may be debatable
- tiling window managers are in my view unrivaled in ux compared to anything else
- gtk3 and qt also offer extensive theming on posix compliant systems
- proper terminal centric design is also very important to me, making windows as a whole an unbearable user experience
dude i use i3 and arch as a daily driver. for work too. and i LOVE it even if it can get a little janky.
but you cannot with a straight face tell me a user new to linux will find it comfortable to use. let alone people used to other tools like graphic designers (try telling THEM to switch to gimp and inkscape, or even worse to try to use the adobe suite with wine, and see the response you get)
we linux weenies can make our desktop and tools comfortable for us. the average person will ask you where chrome is and give up after you try explaining to them what a flatpak is for the third time.
i mean vanilla gnome 47 and plasma 6.1, not whatever ubuntu does
Cope.
and seethe
possibly also mald
i don’t hate windows because of design inconsistencies and imagined security differences. i hate windows because it shoves ads in my face and spies on me, and every time i dig through the registry to get it to not do that, it gets undone with the next system update.
i use linux because it doesn’t make me do that in order to have a system i consider usable.
I am not a fan of the design inconsistencies or the apparent desire within Microsoft to change the entire GUI style every 5 minutes, but the way Windows has turned into bloated AF adware/spyware has been the main force behind me moving to Linux. I would have been happy with Windows XP forever if they just kept updating DirectX etc.
My other major annoyance is how Windows Update now forces itself on you, forces a reboot, then takes forever, and of course will randomly fail to apply the updates. Whereas with Linux, the updates just… work. And they don’t take half an hour to do nothing.
Also the pulling-teeth-process of updating Windows. How does a commercial OS shit the bed on that so hard?
What’s the problem with the updates? I don’t have any problems with OS-Updates on W11 and also have no commercials or Copilot or shit like this. And no update ever tried to bring me those things. EU btw
My last experience with Windows was with Windows 10, but updates were always taking an extremely long time both to download (my internet is a bit slow, Linux updates have way smaller download sizes) and to install, and update installation often failed.
Ah okay, we had 50k DSL for the longest time now, and updates never were really a problem. Yes, they download in the background but never really influenced my internet usage. And updates never really broke anything for me. But I also never update ASAP. But everyone’s mileage may vary. I mainly use my PC for entertainment purposes and picture editing. No problems there except with Adobe, because it’s a shit show of a program suite, haha
I feel like it’s a thing in the EU, where we don’t have ads or shit like that in Windows. Been using Windows 11 for like a month now and haven’t seen a single ad.
yeah that’s what people complain about on windows sure
