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Honestly, the Linux desktop experience has come so far in the past 10 years. Sure I don't think it's perfect, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2008 whe

Honestly, the Linux desktop experience has come so far in the past 10 years. Sure I don't think it's perfect, but it's nowhere near as bad as it was in 2008 where Windows was still king and Linux had bugs everywhere in every distro and every desktop environment. I think people should seriously consider Linux now if they can't take anymore of Microsoft's shit

krona 5y ago
Anecdotal, but I have a 2015 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 20 (gnome 3.38), a 2020 MBP and a 2019 MS Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10). The recent Gnome experience on hardware half a decade older than the Surface laptop is so much snappier than Windows. I dred MacOS and Windows updates these days but I'm generally very pleased with updates to Ubuntu/Gnome. Furthermore everything just works, too, which is what I grew up to expect from Windows, but literally yesterday the Surface laptop bricked itself installing an update. I have daily problems using Windows with WSL, too. It's infuriating. I used to feel stable and assured using Windows, but these days Windows is an endless labyrinth of dialog boxes, it's hard to comprehend how anyone could take it seriously any longer. Maybe I'm getting old.
- jcranberry 5y ago
  Imo gnome is better aesthetically and from a ux/feeling/default shortcuts perspective than windows and has been for seven or eight years at least. As far as I can tell the issues are graphics cards when you have both a dedicated gpu and an integrated one, and gaming/popular productivity apps. Both have been getting steadily better over time though.
- midasz 5y ago
  I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme and I dual boot Windows 10 + Arch. I haven't used Windows in so long, the last time I tried it was so insanely slow I don't know how people deal with it. Arch with GNOME is super snappy.
  - scns 5y ago
    1% of the time i boot into W10 to check the FW for my BT-Cans or something else. After a while, even while idle, the fans suddenly shift into overdrive. The CPU is undervolted by 0,095V.
AQuantized 5y ago
I totally agree. There are still times you will need to investigate why something isn't working on linux. But the upside is when you do, there's almost always a way to make it work the way you want. In stark contrast with Windows 10 which has had features like window snapping at edges when dragging something across the boundary between monitors that you just can't turn off. Or updates that seem to obey their own arcane rules instead of requiring a simple sudo [package-manager] [update-command]

krona 5y ago

Anecdotal, but I have a 2015 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Ubuntu 20 (gnome 3.38), a 2020 MBP and a 2019 MS Surface Laptop 3 (windows 10). The recent Gnome experience on hardware half a decade older than the Surface laptop is so much snappier than Windows. I dred MacOS and Windows updates these days but I'm generally very pleased with updates to Ubuntu/Gnome. Furthermore everything just works, too, which is what I grew up to expect from Windows, but literally yesterday the Surface laptop bricked itself installing an update. I have daily problems using Windows with WSL, too. It's infuriating. I used to feel stable and assured using Windows, but these days Windows is an endless labyrinth of dialog boxes, it's hard to comprehend how anyone could take it seriously any longer. Maybe I'm getting old.

jcranberry 5y ago
Imo gnome is better aesthetically and from a ux/feeling/default shortcuts perspective than windows and has been for seven or eight years at least. As far as I can tell the issues are graphics cards when you have both a dedicated gpu and an integrated one, and gaming/popular productivity apps. Both have been getting steadily better over time though.
midasz 5y ago
I've got a Lenovo x1 xtreme and I dual boot Windows 10 + Arch. I haven't used Windows in so long, the last time I tried it was so insanely slow I don't know how people deal with it. Arch with GNOME is super snappy.
- scns 5y ago
  1% of the time i boot into W10 to check the FW for my BT-Cans or something else. After a while, even while idle, the fans suddenly shift into overdrive. The CPU is undervolted by 0,095V.

AQuantized 5y ago

I totally agree. There are still times you will need to investigate why something isn't working on linux. But the upside is when you do, there's almost always a way to make it work the way you want. In stark contrast with Windows 10 which has had features like window snapping at edges when dragging something across the boundary between monitors that you just can't turn off. Or updates that seem to obey their own arcane rules instead of requiring a simple sudo [package-manager] [update-command]