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Yeah. Anecdotally I once spent a "Windows Evening" trying to figure out why a game would freeze at the controls remapping menu. Found out that Windows' own game

Yeah. Anecdotally I once spent a "Windows Evening" trying to figure out why a game would freeze at the controls remapping menu. Found out that Windows' own game controllers menu was experiencing the same freeze. I went so far as to reinstall Windows entirely, only to find that the issue wasn't resolved. Started disconnecting devices out of desperation, only to find out that the issue was caused by the driver of a USB DAC I had connected... Computers suck, in general. I have a hard time seeing an attempt to leverage blame on Windows or Linux as anything but an excuse to start a flame war.

npteljes 4y ago
They really are a mess, if you dig a bit deeper. Many of the OS issues are actually even bigger hardware issues, which the OS failed to amend. My gripe with Windows is usually not related to the operating system itself, but rather the direction it's headed as a product. And I also don't like that when people say that Linux is so tinker-y, compared to Windows, which "just works". A system that "just works", in my experience, is a system that the user is used to. Familiarity makes the issues seem trivial, and the unfamiliar issues seem insurmountable, which hardly results in a fair comparison.