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> And what your experiences have been on Windows, I just wonder? I'm actually surprised about the stability of Windows 7 or 10. Even on old crappy hardware it
by nisa 11y ago
> And what your experiences have been on Windows, I just wonder?
I'm actually surprised about the stability of Windows 7 or 10. Even on old crappy hardware it feels faster than Ubuntu. I only mean the bare OS. There are tons of problems in the Windows world - but but for me it mostly works.
> Ever had to recover a Win8.1 laptop stuck in failed update that it keeps reinstalling over and over and over?
Not yet. I had gvfs eat multiple GB of memory when opening a folder in nautilus, some indicator-applet using 10% cpu because it's sending constantly xml over dbus for displaying cpu usage. I've had fun getting Qt/GTK3/GTK2 look somewhat similar, having fun with NetworkManager SIGSEVing and fumbling with strace to get a clue about that glib,dbus,libnl mess. I have xorg crash the whole system, editing gconfd oder dconf files for setting options are in the control panel in Windows. Have tens of "System Problem detected" Popups that are positioned below each other and that are provide no real insight besides the fact that commond-not-found has crashed or apport-gtk SIGSEVed again...
> Linux runs circles around Windows in usability department.
I'm using Linux as my daily driver for more than 15 years. I like it. But I'm mostly in a terminal session. Everything else is quite bleak if you don't have a computer science or technical background. Even with a computer science education debugging polkit or funny locking bugs in glib or gobject is more a black art than fun.
This is the reality https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/ and it sucks. I tried to emulate the functionality of superkaramba on KDE5. It's impossible. It sucks. My mom can't handle it. And even I can't. Sure it's probably my problem that I'm not happy that I'm able to to rotate my KDE widgets to 59° but something like xload is still not possible out of the box.