[gjhh244]

Weird how different people have different experiences. I've had way more cases of random things breaking on Win 10 than on Linux Mint. Especially corporate Win 10 on my working machine is utterly horrible, just endless problems.

[lostmsu]

Are any of those problems of "unchangeable 800x600 resolution" magnitude? Could you name a few?

[probably_wrong]

I can name two.

I had Windows 7, which was then upgraded to Win10. Problem is, my computer doesn't support UEFI, so I cannot reinstall Win 10 from USB on an SSD even though it's gotten really, really slow (as in, 15sec for right click). I also cannot generate a recovery DVD because the generated image is too big and doesn't fit. As a result, the computer spends it's first 15+ minutes updating stuff I don't need. The only solution at this point is to throw away a perfectly good computer.

Plugging a PS3 USB controller the reboots Windows. This doesn't happen under Linux. I also need to reinstall the controller driver every time because Windows removes it.

[lostmsu]

Win 10 has a reset button in settings similar to mobile phones.

[auno]

Don't remember if it was Windows 8 or 10, but I had an issue that I would say was at least in that magnitude when I for one reason or another temporarily needed a bare-metal Windows install a few years ago.

The actual install went fine and everything worked reasonably well during that part. However, when booting up the system for the first time after install, Windows realized that my USB controller was a USB 3 controller and asked me to provide drivers. Windows then helpfully disabled the controller, the one where I had my keyboard and mouse hooked up, for me until I had installed said drivers. I had to dig out an old PS/2 keyboard out of the closet and navigate without mouse to install the drivers.

[aragilar]

Does "Windows 10 upgrades the driver for the monitor to a Microsoft-provided version, causing BSOD on boot" count?

[lostmsu]

Definitely! Was it an "optional update"? They recently stopped offering that because it was poorly presented: it was not actually an update rather installation of a different driver altogether.

Also, monitor driver? Are you sure?

[aragilar]

No idea, wasn't my machine (been a linux user for >15 years), I just needed to fix it (which I did via a linux live usb). Yes to monitor driver (I don't even know why it needed one, removing the driver allowed it to work fine, it definitely wasn't the GPU driver), and if you plugged in a different monitor it worked fine (and if I recall, installing a old graphics card I had lying around and connecting the "bad" monitor to it still caused problems).

I'd have thought it was some kind of joke if I hadn't seen it myself (apparently this wasn't the first time)...

[wayneftw]

Windows is slow af compared to Linux on the same hardware when I’m doing anything with Docker or Node.js/npm/yarn. The cli is incompatible with bash. I also can’t disable telemetry and other things I don’t want. It’s also missing features UI features that I get with XFCE.

That’s why I switched to Manjaro 3 years ago for work and never looked back. I still have Windows systems for games where it mostly works fine except for the occasional interruption to install updates while I’m in the middle of playing or watching something (which never happens on Linux since I have complete control there.)

The types of issues that Windows has can’t be fixed. An “unchangeable” resolution is fixable if it’s not a hardware issue. But I never have that type of issues at all on Linux. It just works for me and I have it on 3 desktops and a laptop. A lot of it comes down to picking the right distro and not being a cowboy. For instance, on Manjaro - just use the gui to install apps, not the command line - and restart when it tells you to. The gui does things that you won’t think to do on every update.

[lostmsu]

Performance for specific use cases is debatable (as in not everyone has your use case, and even your use case might not be as important as you think in comparison to cumulative effect of other performance differences). However, the comment was specifically talking about breaking issues:

> random things breaking on Win 10

[wayneftw]

Windows users just randomly lost free access to Docker desktop too.

Enjoy that!