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You and others make a good point about getting going faster on windows, but one thing that a lot of people don't factor in is the amount of time fiddling with w

You and others make a good point about getting going faster on windows, but one thing that a lot of people don't factor in is the amount of time fiddling with windows as well. Getting it working or fixing problems and other configuration probs. And not all hardware works well under windows or the latest version of windows. There is some real time spent trying to configure windows as well. The main problem that the article presents is that windows acts like malware which brings a new element to your desktop. I remember getting a popup notification from facebook, this after I thought I turned off all of that stuff. You don't face that in linux. You did with some earlier versions of Ubuntu, but not anymore. No doubt, windows brings computing to people who aren't technical and makes it easy, but anything beyond the most simple configuration will take a lot of time as well.

tracker1 10y ago
I have a Windows PC and an Ubuntu system running on the same NUC hardware, as well as a higher end desktop that I use. I have to twiddle with the Ubuntu system pretty much once every 3-4 months after an update breaks something. The Windows 10 box keeps running... My big desktop has upgraded from 7->8->8.1->10, and is still running, though I'm considering a clean install, as some of the cruft from experimenting with the WSL and Docker for Windows Containers has left things a little funky. In the end, I find I have to spend far more time tinkering with my HTPC box running Ubuntu, then I ever really had to with windows. I know there are other distros, but Ubuntu is pretty much king of desktop linux here. I have considered switching to Debian proper, or an Ubuntu derivative, but haven't done so. Oh, and don't get my started on the pain of getting an MCE remote working halfway properly under Kodi... that was a real painful experience. I'm just glad that suspend/resume has hdmi audio after now, where it lost it before some recent changes (daily intel driver ppa).

tracker1 10y ago

I have a Windows PC and an Ubuntu system running on the same NUC hardware, as well as a higher end desktop that I use. I have to twiddle with the Ubuntu system pretty much once every 3-4 months after an update breaks something. The Windows 10 box keeps running... My big desktop has upgraded from 7->8->8.1->10, and is still running, though I'm considering a clean install, as some of the cruft from experimenting with the WSL and Docker for Windows Containers has left things a little funky. In the end, I find I have to spend far more time tinkering with my HTPC box running Ubuntu, then I ever really had to with windows. I know there are other distros, but Ubuntu is pretty much king of desktop linux here. I have considered switching to Debian proper, or an Ubuntu derivative, but haven't done so. Oh, and don't get my started on the pain of getting an MCE remote working halfway properly under Kodi... that was a real painful experience. I'm just glad that suspend/resume has hdmi audio after now, where it lost it before some recent changes (daily intel driver ppa).