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I wanted this to be true, and I really gave Windows 11 a fair trial for a while, but I hated it. Windows feels like a cobbled-together mess compared to nearly a
by gxonatano 3y ago
I wanted this to be true, and I really gave Windows 11 a fair trial for a while, but I hated it. Windows feels like a cobbled-together mess compared to nearly any flavor of Linux. Take for example the process of installing software. On Linux, type `sudo apt install the-program` and it's installed. What's that like on Windows? Open a web browser and search for the software publisher's website. Click around until you can find a package download. Download the installer. Double click the installer. Click "yes, I understand that I'm installing software downloaded from the Internet, and that's dangerous." Start the installation "wizard." Click "full install." Select the location you want to install the software. Click that you agree to like a hundred pages of the license terms and legal stuff. Delete the installer. After doing that a few times, I really started to miss Linux.
Updating software is also crazy on Windows. Every single program bugs you individually that it needs to be updated. In some cases you then have to download a whole new version of the software package and go through all the above steps. On Linux you can just type `sudo apt upgrade` or equivalent and all your software is updated.
- azretd 3y agoThere is ‘winget’ which is an attempt to make installing software easier. It is native with recent versions of Windows 11.