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I had the same thought as you. When I got a new laptop, I left Win 10 on it and got Ubuntu in the WSL. After about 2 years, I went to Debian Stable. The bigge
by passthejoe 6y ago
I had the same thought as you. When I got a new laptop, I left Win 10 on it and got Ubuntu in the WSL.
After about 2 years, I went to Debian Stable.
The biggest pro about Win 10 is that it handles 1080p resolution so well. Why Linux distros are not "tuned" to 1080p out of the box, I don't know, because there are few non-HD laptops out there these days.
But the Win 10 cons drove me away:
* Terrible driver support from vendors (what's broken stays broken, I had sound issues that were never going to be resolved)
* Windows 10 updates are horrible, and they kill your productivity. I had a couple of incidents where I couldn't use the laptop for DAYS at a time.
* I really missed the sane package management you get from a good Linux distro. I never tried Choclatey, so maybe that would have made me a happier Windows user.
* WSL is great, and so are Git and all the other Unix/Linux-originated apps I was using. After awhile I figured, "I don't use MS Office or Adobe apps, so I might as well just run the Linuxy stuff I use on a real Linux."
- holtalanm 6y agoas far as package management on windows is concerned, i use Scoop: https://scoop.sh/ https://scoop.sh/ It is better than Chocolatey, imo, because the packages are installed into your user directory rather than into Program Files. Also, the packages appear to be kept up to date much better than Choco. Really, the reason I left linux originally was partially because of the screen issue you mention. That, and driver issues with Thunderbolt 3. Don't know if it is any better now, but when I left, Thunderbolt 3 display drivers were horrendous on linux.