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Heh, it's funny how "no issue at all" is a flexible thing. Not talking about your case, maybe you really don't have any issues, but recently I had sort of revel
by apetrovic 10y ago
Heh, it's funny how "no issue at all" is a flexible thing. Not talking about your case, maybe you really don't have any issues, but recently I had sort of revelation - I spent good part of my professional life (20+ years) on Windows. I dabble in Linux, I have a home server and know my way around it, but my proficiency was always Windows. And I never understand the amount of complaints about Windows - for me that thing just worked. My last Windows machine was Thinkpad W520, and in three years I didn't had one single Windows crash.
Then I moved to Mac. I was puzzled first couple of months - comparing to Windows, the platform was, for me, almost an utter shit. Yeah, some things were cute, some things are better from the start (application installation, for example) but OSX crashed on me couple of times (which Windows never did), Finder is an atrocity compared to Explorer, etc, etc.
Some time passed (three years). I learned how to use Mac. Somehow OS stopped crashing. Pain points disappeared. Finder isn't so bad after all, it have some nice tricks. And now, when I need to work on Windows, I want to kill someone out of frustration - nothing works exactly like I want.
Because I forgot things about Windows. I don't know about you guys, but when I'm familiar with something, when I understand how something works, I tend to use that thing (Windows, macOS, Linux, whatever) in a way that will not make me problems. When I said "Windows is rock stable" I mean it, but I learned that it was rock stable for me, because I knew how to use it.
I assume that's the reason why there's so many opposing stories about linux - people who knows linux doesn't understand how someone can have any problem with it, because linux just works for them. Forgetting and not thinking about million simple, small things they do every day to ensure that Linux is working correctly.
- fleetfox 10y agoIt's not an issue of familiarity or stability for me. I've been using Windows more or less daily since Win98. I'm more frustrated about not beeing able to fix it in sane way when things go wrong. I'm able to patch and compile kernel, but i'm unable to fix Windows update. It does not make any sense to me.