Of course, for every story/video/etc. of someone smoothly transitioning, there’s a thousand more that have basic non-starters because of certain applications/hardware, too many bugs or simply gave up in frustration.
I’ve only had two mentionable issues with Linux so far: A GPU bug that causes a few games to reliably hang my GPU (which may have been fixed recently with newer mesa drivers; I haven’t checked), and Helvum not recognizing anything (which was probably me installing it wrong or something).
Windows however… Changing system settings with no warning, forgetting network configuration out of the blue, GPU crashes that hard rebooted windows, and driver updates that prevent booting at all. Some software gets installed without notice, others get removed without notice. The forced update debacle has lost me more than one open document. I’ve had critical audio issues on every machine I’ve used, including individual school machines that should be identical. Several of my remaining windows machines have issues with various system programs maxing out the disk write speed and locking up everything for dozens of minutes at a time.
And then more recently there’s the security violations, always online behavior, enshitification, and removal of user choice.
This may be a tad biased as I’ve used windows for a few decades and Linux for just over a year, but going back is always a chore…
Do you have any idea how hard it is to go from Linux to Windows?
I do. It’s a MASSIVE Pain in the ass, especially if you’re looking for minimalism, performance and a tiling window manager, as Windows can’t provide either of these.
And there’s also the spyware and other stuff. I just remember hating one of my lecturers in college for using Visual Studio in the first year (Y1), and using Excel in Y2, for the modules she taught, meaning I had to use Windows for them. Luckily, for the first assignment in Y1, and the second assignment in Y2, I didn’t actually need Windows, and for the second assignment of Y1, I just did it in class on the college’s Windows machines. But Y2, first assignment I did a Windows dualboot cuz I unfortunately didn’t have time to do it in class.
Anyways, point is that I associate Windows with bad memories. While I associate Linux with good ones.
Of course, for every story/video/etc. of someone smoothly transitioning, there’s a thousand more that have basic non-starters because of certain applications/hardware, too many bugs or simply gave up in frustration.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to go from Linux to Windows?
Nightmare. The bloody thing keeps on wanting to peek up your skirt (even if you don’t wear one)
I’ve only had two mentionable issues with Linux so far: A GPU bug that causes a few games to reliably hang my GPU (which may have been fixed recently with newer mesa drivers; I haven’t checked), and Helvum not recognizing anything (which was probably me installing it wrong or something).
Windows however… Changing system settings with no warning, forgetting network configuration out of the blue, GPU crashes that hard rebooted windows, and driver updates that prevent booting at all. Some software gets installed without notice, others get removed without notice. The forced update debacle has lost me more than one open document. I’ve had critical audio issues on every machine I’ve used, including individual school machines that should be identical. Several of my remaining windows machines have issues with various system programs maxing out the disk write speed and locking up everything for dozens of minutes at a time.
And then more recently there’s the security violations, always online behavior, enshitification, and removal of user choice.
This may be a tad biased as I’ve used windows for a few decades and Linux for just over a year, but going back is always a chore…
I do. It’s a MASSIVE Pain in the ass, especially if you’re looking for minimalism, performance and a tiling window manager, as Windows can’t provide either of these.
And there’s also the spyware and other stuff. I just remember hating one of my lecturers in college for using Visual Studio in the first year (Y1), and using Excel in Y2, for the modules she taught, meaning I had to use Windows for them. Luckily, for the first assignment in Y1, and the second assignment in Y2, I didn’t actually need Windows, and for the second assignment of Y1, I just did it in class on the college’s Windows machines. But Y2, first assignment I did a Windows dualboot cuz I unfortunately didn’t have time to do it in class.
Anyways, point is that I associate Windows with bad memories. While I associate Linux with good ones.
“Anyways, point is that I associate Windows with bad memories. While I associate Linux with good ones.”
Me too. I use Arch/Kubuntu … actually!