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> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it wor
by drvdevd 5y ago
> Given all the crap that Windows users put up with, be it malware or system updates randomly breaking things, I think a fair amount of people might find it worth the effort to give Linux a try.
This. And I would be wrong to say that running Windows is easier - it is not. It just has the vendor support to make it a little bit easier with respect to some hardware, sometimes.
- krylon 5y agoHehe, the update thing bit me badly more than once. Coming from a Debian background, I just approved any and all incoming updates in WSUS when I started working as a Windows admin. Oh, the stories I could tell... ;-) Siemens SIMATIC, specifically, was so sensitive, I eventually stopped approving Windows Updates for our automation people until I got them to move all their SIMATIC software to virtual machines that had no access to our internal network. Printers, too, were a constant source of head-scratching and cursing. manic laughter The worst part, to me, was that Windows seems to go out of its way to make troubleshooting unnecessarily difficult. I don't mind if a system misbehaves every now and then, as long as I have good chance of figuring out the source of the problem. But troubleshooting Windows is more frustrating than parsing error messages from a C++ compiler complaining about template instantiation problems (at least for me, having only the most superficial experience with C++).