[pasabagi]

It is significantly more predictable, though. If I switch on my Windows computer to do some work, say, for a deadline, it's out of my control what happens next. If I'm unlucky, there's literally nothing I can do to make the computer functional and meet the deadline because it's stuck updating something.

Linux has warts, but being able to switch on your computer and definitely use it is pretty important.

[pjmlp]

It doesn't help if it boots, if then I have to continously battle with my wlan configuration that every other device on the house doesn't have any issue talking to.

So I just accept as fact of life that on a Asus 1215B, bought with Linux pre-installed, I have to reboot the network configuration every now and then.

I guess it is still better than when Canonical replaced the wlan driver with a half-working one because FOSS rulez, or having 3D capabilities downgraded to GL 3.3 support, when the legacy AMD commercial driver was capable of GL 4.1.

[pasabagi]

I guess the difference is that these problems are fixable: maybe they're going to be annoying to fix, but you can actually do it.

In windows, some problems are simply outside of your control, or if you dip down into the registry to fix them, and that's possible, then your fixes can get unfixed on update.

To be honest, I just find it mind-boggling that all around the world, there are offices of high-paid professionals waiting for windows to finish updating minecraft before they can actually do some work.

[pjmlp]

Fixable how?

I have to become a kernel hacker and AMD driver contributor to fix them?!?

[pasabagi]

It's probably just a matter of fixing some inane configuration file under /etc/.

Don't get me wrong - I find that kind of thing annoying too. But it's nothing compared to the Windows approach of interrupting your work to give you a popup about 'connecting your device' or whatever.

[pjmlp]

If they are waiting for Minecrat to update then they are overly paid.