Comment by rkomorn

3 months ago

I also love how people confidently claim something like this.

FWIW, for me Linux stopped being better than Windows around Windows 7 and still isn't back.

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mixmastamyk  3 months ago

Windows wasn’t fully usable until the terminal and WSL shipped. And now isn’t due to adverts and loss of local accounts, and other hostile anti-features.

  • rkomorn  3 months ago

    Windows 7 was the first version that gave me stability that made Linux feel like less of a must-have / only option.

    Windows 11 largely gives me no problems and has worked perfectly fine with the hardware I've thrown at it, with no effort on my part. WSL is definitely a bonus.

    The same just has not been true of Linux for me during the same time period with the same pieces of hardware.

    I still happen to run NixOS on my laptop (the most recent of 6 distros, and Windows, I've tried over the past couple of years). It's not been entirely trouble-free but (thanks to the Arch wiki, mostly), it's in a decent state now.

    And you are right about the hostile anti-features, though, and that promises to only get worse.

    My windows PC has been relegated to games and will likely get whatever first stable, headache free SteamOS+NVIDIA incarnation turns up.

    I've got no more affection for Windows than for Linux. There are just cases where the former has given me fewer headaches than the latter.

    • mixmastamyk  3 months ago

      Sounds like a hardware issue on the Linux side. Been using Dell developers for decades and recently Frameworks and had only temporary issues with brand-new chipsets. Star labs tablet is great as well.

      On the Windows side NT 3.5 was rock solid with limited software selection, 4 was decent, XP was fine for me behind a firewall but not everyone was so lucky on the security angle. No one liked Vista but I don't remember it being due to crashing.

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