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submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly I have to disagree. If I have an issue on Windows, I just can never find an answer because every result on my search is the microsoft forums, which of course never has any solutions that work.

On the other hand, specifically for arch, the arch forums always have the answer for me because there are actual smart people on there.

A side note, windows and their products always have terrible documentation, which can add to the frustration at times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're both right.

If you've always grown up Windows, then you generally know the steps to go through to try and fix it, which are oftentimes laborious and sifting through useless answers like sfc /scannow until you finally find some command you need to run like onedrive.exe /reset and about 12 other steps to get your OneDrive syncing (example problem).

Now you switch over to Linux as a fairly new user, oh my audio isn't coming from my speakers but is from the jack. Uhhhh, the Settings show it all there and working? Oh, here's a forum answer but it tells me to edit my pulseaudio.conf file? Where the hell is that? Oh, I found it but it's read only? Oh, I have to type sudo nano /etc/pulseaudio.conf into a terminal? Woah, what the fuck is this text editor?? I guess I use the arrow keys to move, but no mouse support? Alright I've edited it but what the heck Ctrl S isn't saving? Oh, the legend at the bottom says Ctrl O, and uhhhh, yeah overwrite? Now Ctrl X to exit, and uhhh, okay it's still not fixed but maybe a reboot fixes it. And if we fast forward 4 hours it turned out to be an audio driver.

You get my point. Linux is just different enough where if something breaks, and its something weirdly specific, its a lot of unknowns the user has to rapidly learn where they know these annoying troubleshooting things in Windows already. Linux does have really good forums and answers and documentation but its a learning curve regardless and that can be too much for a really casual user who doesn't have the time or will to follow through.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It's especially tricky when one is generally only trying to install xnix on a device that is no longer supported by MS/apple.

Though it seems to be less of a problem for me when I install Ubuntu distros. I recently installed the LT Kubuntu on a Surface Pro 3 with no hiccups, despite how intensely proprietary EVERYTHING on surface devices turns out to be.

I was fine using Windows 10 for a long while. Windows 11 has freaked me the f* out with how intensely the Borg has removed all abilities to customize app installs and wholly eliminated the ability to remove bloatware and have it stay removed. Windows 11 is basically a huge very effective advertisement for every OS that is NOT windows.