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Regarding WSL, I tried very hard to use Linux exclusively on my desktop for about five years. While native Linux is excellent for servers, the desktop experienc

Regarding WSL, I tried very hard to use Linux exclusively on my desktop for about five years. While native Linux is excellent for servers, the desktop experience still has many shortcomings and unpredictabilities. It often feels like something breaks with every new release, affecting everything from power management to input systems. I grew tired of feeling like I was rolling the dice every time I performed an upgrade. Eventually, I concluded that using Linux on the desktop (at least on a large scale) is just a pipe dream. Although Windows has its problems, WSL provides a Linux implementation with the least friction, in my experience.

iLemming 2y ago
I have 100% the opposite experience. I was a Windows user for many years. After heavily using Linux for several months, I cannot work in Windows anymore; it just doesn't make sense to me. I feel like I can never predict what the system will do next. I would open a folder with a bunch of subfolders, and it would show me a progress bar. For almost half a minute. "Why? What the fuck are you trying to do, Windows? Why can't you just simply list the files? I just need to see them, nothing else. How come that literally not a single other file-explorer software does any shit of that sort? And why does it happen every single damn time when I open the same fucking folder?" Search doesn't freaking work anymore. I can't even find an app that I just installed seconds ago - the search instead would take me to the web, opening Edge. Which is another damn pestilence alongside OneDrive Cloud. "No, Microsoft. I don't care about your damn browser, let me use whatever I want to use... And no, I don't care about your cloud." There's now built-in telemetry everywhere, and they're making it real hard to use the thing on your own computer without logging into an MS account. I like my Linux. It makes me feel liberated from bullshit. Sure, it can feel brittle, but it doesn't feel "broken all the time". Windows feels like it's fundamentally broken beyond repair.

iLemming 2y ago

I have 100% the opposite experience. I was a Windows user for many years. After heavily using Linux for several months, I cannot work in Windows anymore; it just doesn't make sense to me. I feel like I can never predict what the system will do next. I would open a folder with a bunch of subfolders, and it would show me a progress bar. For almost half a minute. "Why? What the fuck are you trying to do, Windows? Why can't you just simply list the files? I just need to see them, nothing else. How come that literally not a single other file-explorer software does any shit of that sort? And why does it happen every single damn time when I open the same fucking folder?" Search doesn't freaking work anymore. I can't even find an app that I just installed seconds ago - the search instead would take me to the web, opening Edge. Which is another damn pestilence alongside OneDrive Cloud. "No, Microsoft. I don't care about your damn browser, let me use whatever I want to use... And no, I don't care about your cloud." There's now built-in telemetry everywhere, and they're making it real hard to use the thing on your own computer without logging into an MS account. I like my Linux. It makes me feel liberated from bullshit. Sure, it can feel brittle, but it doesn't feel "broken all the time". Windows feels like it's fundamentally broken beyond repair.