Do you know what makes windows great? It just works out of the box with broad driver and software compatibility. Extensive hardware support (Windows 10 runs on any brand new hardware as well as old hardware from 12 years ago). Many professional software applications, such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk products, and Microsoft Office, are primarily developed for Windows. If you rely on specific professional software, Windows offes better compatibility and support.
Linux offers better security and has a large repository of open source software as well as being very developer friendly. If you’re reading this it’s thanks to Linux. However switching to Linux isn’t a viable option for everyone for the aforementioned points. It surprises me to this day how many smart and tech savvy individuals still can’t grasp this concept.
Linux is not more secure really, it’s just assumed to be so because it’s less widely attacked for having less market share
Nah, you have a user, it cannot mess with another user, by design.
In windows you can do so many crappy things it’s incredible, like rescue boot and just change the crowd strike executables with a notepad++ exe aaand you are “free!”
The security holes ae trash too, you can’t deny that. Corporate PCs are plagued with “anti virus” and other scanning softs, sending your every keystroke to some authentication server so see if no malicious intent is detected.
If you want to do something efficient, Windows is no longer the way IMO.
Yeah, I’m going to have to call you on that whole "Windows just works"TM business. I just had to install drivers, during setup, for a regular hard drive in Windows Server 2019. Last time I tried to run the game Rust on Windows 11 it just wouldn’t run and I blew hours and never could find a solution. Had to go back to Win 10 to get it to run. It’s also pretty easy to pay attention to any news feed and see an endless string of Windows is now broken like X on basically a weekly basis at this point. MS Fired their entire QA team and only tests on virtual machines now. Zero surprise Windows breaks in all sorts of new and interesting ways when it finally meets the real world. Anyone who makes this statement is at best naive and at worst a bold face liar/shill. I do try to assume most people are the prior of course.
That said the rest of your statement is spot on. Right tool for the right job will never not be relevant.
At least for me I haven’t had any issues with Win11.
Linux is just too much work, even as someone who knows how to use it a decent amount. Even getting something basic to work that works out of the box with windows takes too much googling
I love Linux though and I can’t wait for the day when it’s a drop-in replacement for windows (if that happens). That said it’s gotten a lot better over the years and is really close in some regards
Extensive hardware support is not really true. Windows is supported by hardware manufacturers because it’s popular, but Microsoft isn’t the one making drivers. So Windows doesn’t have extensive hardware support since after installing the OS you have to spend time installing drivers which manufacturers made otherwise it’s almost unusable.
Saying that Windows has driver support means that drivers are supported by the system (because they exist and are available) regardless of the driver’s provider. The entities providing the drivers are essentially what gives Windows support.
Sure you have to spend time installing drivers just like you would have to spend time installing any type of software on a machine to achieve the operating function you require. I don’t think I fully understand what you’re trying to say here.
You are using “support” instead of “capability”. Having capability of installing drivers is pretty much given to any operating system. Said drivers being provided for the operating system in question is a hardware manufacturer thing. Microsoft doesn’t provide support for drivers, they provide capability of installing drivers. Microsoft is not involved in development process of said drivers not do they offer technical support in resolving issues regarding them. The fact Windows is the most popular means most manufacturers will support Windows but that has nothing to do with Microsoft other than charging for that sticker they put on boxes.
If you buy nVidia card, it’s nVidia that supports Windows, not that Windows supports nVidia. nVidia made the effort to develop and test software on that operating system, is providing technical support for that software, has upgrade paths, etc. Windows is just there and popular.
I have literally never had to hunt down some old ass drivers on 90s looking shitty websites on linux
I spent an hour trying to get my Broadcomm wifi card working on Debian. Gave up…
Windows is a bit easier, you need to find the right package, but then it’s just one “next next next install” away
