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I agree, most of the criticisms seem to concern overall unimportant technical issues. I'm using Linux since 2008 for all of my work and I haven't had any proble

by 13415 4y ago

I agree, most of the criticisms seem to concern overall unimportant technical issues. I'm using Linux since 2008 for all of my work and I haven't had any problems during the last ten years or so. I have no complaints about X, it just works fine. What is hard in my opinion is migrating to a new machine or changing major hard drives. There is still no good migration assistant and so many things can go wrong with a major change. But that's pretty much my only complaint.

adrian_b 4y ago
On the contrary, in my experience, unlike with Windows, migrating Linux to a new machine is trivial. You can just move the SSD or HDD to another computer and there will be no problems because the OS has identified some change in hardware incompatible with your license and refuses to work. Otherwise, you can just copy the old SSD/HDD to a new SSD/HDD, to clone the Linux installation, and all will work without problems (when copying, there are a few directories that must not be copied, e.g. /dev, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp, but they must be created on the destination SSD/HDD; also the copy must be done with something like "/bin/cp --no-dereference --recursive --one-file-system --preserve=all", as the default cp loses data; I never use the default cp, but only an alias including the options mentioned above, to be sure that the copies are identical to the original). The copying can also be done through the network, e.g. with rsync, while booting temporarily the destination computer from an USB stick or from a server via Ethernet. With Windows, you cannot be sure that copying a SSD/HDD actually copies everything, and even if it would copy everything, the copy is unlikely to boot if the hardware is too different. I have migrated or cloned Linux countless times, in a half of hour or whatever it takes to copy 1 or 2 terabytes of SSD, while with Windows I was forced to always do fresh installations and lose a lot of time to duplicate the old configurations. It is true however that I have not tried any commercial migration tool, as I would not pay for something that I only need infrequently.

by 13415 4y ago

adrian_b 4y ago

On the contrary, in my experience, unlike with Windows, migrating Linux to a new machine is trivial. You can just move the SSD or HDD to another computer and there will be no problems because the OS has identified some change in hardware incompatible with your license and refuses to work. Otherwise, you can just copy the old SSD/HDD to a new SSD/HDD, to clone the Linux installation, and all will work without problems (when copying, there are a few directories that must not be copied, e.g. /dev, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp, but they must be created on the destination SSD/HDD; also the copy must be done with something like "/bin/cp --no-dereference --recursive --one-file-system --preserve=all", as the default cp loses data; I never use the default cp, but only an alias including the options mentioned above, to be sure that the copies are identical to the original). The copying can also be done through the network, e.g. with rsync, while booting temporarily the destination computer from an USB stick or from a server via Ethernet. With Windows, you cannot be sure that copying a SSD/HDD actually copies everything, and even if it would copy everything, the copy is unlikely to boot if the hardware is too different. I have migrated or cloned Linux countless times, in a half of hour or whatever it takes to copy 1 or 2 terabytes of SSD, while with Windows I was forced to always do fresh installations and lose a lot of time to duplicate the old configurations. It is true however that I have not tried any commercial migration tool, as I would not pay for something that I only need infrequently.