Comment by RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com on Simple as

Ah, great. So we reached an era where a proper installation is more work with Windows than Linux. Don’t have to disable/uninstall anything on the latter (except maybe some shitty distros).

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batmaniam@lemmy.world

4 points

7 months ago

… I had never thought about it this way. You’re totally correct though. I spend way more time fighting with my windows machine than I do my linux these days. I also just have a lot less patience fighting it because it’s always due to some dumb shit it didn’t need to be doing in the first place.

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trailblazer911@lemmy.world

-3 points

7 months ago

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7 points

7 months ago

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Tracking can be disabled

Tracking is one of the main reasons I switched to Linux. You simply can’t know if Microsoft is tracking you, even if you turn off all of the settings. That is because it’s closed source.

Bloatware can be uninstalled manually/Winget/Chris Titus Tech Tools etc

Apart from this beeing exclusive to advanced users, in my experience, after updates or at least a reinstall you would have to do it again. And that was just getting on my nerves.

I never get Ads on Windows

That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen for anyone else.

Look, maybe Linux is just not for you I get that. You’ve come accustomed to Windows and are happy with how it works for you. But for some people it might be a good choice. To give an example from my own life:

I recently installed Debian 12 KDE (looks like windows) on my step dads laptop. He is not technically inclined at all mind you. And apart from setting up auto mounting his ssd, I never had to give him tech support again after that and he is very happy with it.

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jkrtn@lemmy.ml

7 points

7 months ago

“Name one reason, I would like to try Linux.”

“[Names some reasons]”

“[Argues forever]”

People like you are so irritating. What’s the point of doing this? If you wanted to argue about it then why lie to lure people into responding?

It’s Linux, fuck’s sake, if you want to argue about it just make a top level post writing anything at all about Windows or any distro and you’ll have plenty of takers.

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trailblazer911@lemmy.world

-4 points

7 months ago

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jkrtn@lemmy.ml

6 points

7 months ago

Look at how mad you are on Microsoft’s behalf. So according to yourself, you have deep problems to attend to. Go get some help, then, good luck.

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-5 points

7 months ago

Name one good reason then.

All these things are mild annoyances at best that can be disabled in a couple of clicks. At least, if you are technologically inclined. Which I hope you people are

If it was something like needing an emulator just to run most software at lower framerates, or having no support for certain hardware, it would be a good reason.

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jkrtn@lemmy.ml

4 points

7 months ago

Go argue with people who care about changing your opinion.

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-4 points

7 months ago

Go ahead try it. It’s easy to try and ere’s a bunch of selections to choose from. Go smack it into an old laptop or something.

Just expect to know how to fix things yourself with the help of the internet and a lot of games will probably still have issues on Linux.

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ARk@lemm.ee

-15 points

7 months ago

mmmm yeah.

Say that after having to scour the internet to fix issues no one encountered before because the game doesn’t have Linux support. Not everyone has a offstream mentality of only enjoying obscure games dude.

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moomoomoo309@programming.dev

11 points

7 months ago

https://protondb.com/

Check the list, bud. It’s far from just obscura.

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ARk@lemm.ee

-3 points

7 months ago

Yeah I know that. But it still comes with crippling performance issues besides the compatibility issues. Not all of us have beefy systems to counterbalance that on Proton. Take a look into some of the newer releases on PC. I’m not waiting more years for games I’ve already been waiting years to get released.

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moomoomoo309@programming.dev

3 points

7 months ago

Crippling is a bit extreme - have you used Proton recently?

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Rustmilian@lemmy.world

2 points

6 months ago

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Actually, Linux + Proton has been found to increase performance on several games than when run natively on Windows, for example Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, etc.
Sure, there’s room for improvement, however Linux is improving every single day exponentially.

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RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com

6 points

7 months ago

OK. Enjoy your not at all obscure lootbox grift crap then. Virtually everything not running on Linux nowadays falls into that category.

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