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>I've used linux as my OS of choice for the past ~ 25 years. This is kind of a useless statement. You might as well say "I use an operating system." Someone wi
by wang_li 1y ago
>I've used linux as my OS of choice for the past ~ 25 years.
This is kind of a useless statement. You might as well say "I use an operating system." Someone will say "how have you solved problem X or feature Y?" And someone else will say "Oh, that's available in Ubuntu." And then "What about Z?" And the answer is "OpenSUSE has that." And so on. Ultimately, all the Linux advocates will say that Linux is parity with Windows, but the reality is that there is no distro that has 80%+ coverage of Windows features.
- wing-_-nuts 1y agoThat's ...quite an odd statement. Linux is linux. The big distinguishing feature between most distros these days is the number and freshness of packages available to install, and how user friendly the default desktop environment is. Especially with recent advances in running windows games / apps via proton, there's never been an easier time to adopt it. I grant you, some people do not really have the skills to use linux, but my ~ 70 year old mother gets by perfectly fine with linux mint. I would expect anyone on hacker news to be able to do the same unless you had windows specific specialty apps (autocad, etc) that you needed to run.
- johnb231 1y agoNo, all of the major Linux distros have practically 100% feature parity with each other. The differences are mainly in the default packages and settings, package management tools, release schedule, release QA process, enterprise support contracts, etc.
- pmontra 1y agoWell, does Windows have 80%+ coverage of Linux features? Windows is Windows and Linux is Linux. I've been using Linux as my desktop OS since 2009 because I need some of its features and Windows doesn't have them. It improved with WSL but it became much worse on everything these threads are about.