| I agree with the points made. Windows will just work as a desktop experience, and snappier to boot.. with one big caveat.. their monthly patches are very buggy and often fail installing outright for some users, and often come with bugs that trash a formerly working feature like printing or vpn or something else. It's bad enough that I actually haven't updated Windows 10 in 2+ years. No, I'm not worried, I've been using computers for decades, it's not necessary to be absolutely the latest version if you know what you're doing and I want the setup to just keep working smoothly. Now about Linux.. flatpaks are the future of packaging as are immutable distros.. BUT.. Flatpaks have their own issues.. sometimes there are weird glitches where one in particular takes over 5 minutes to open on a system with twice the CPU cores than a years-older system which only takes 20 seconds in Windows. Still early days yet though for flatpak but very promising. Ridiculous how so many distros have to compile their own app repositories separately.. what a waste of electricity and duplication of effort. Inconsistencies with fonts-Just an utter mess. The QT toolkit has a regression where it doesn't respect the OS anti-aliasing setting (includes on Windows). Apps like browsers also ignore the OS settings and do their own thing where they use AA also even when you don't want them to (except for one).. then there is the mess that is fractional scaling that only KDE was able to manage, until very recently.. Gnome was all "you'll do blurry and like it because we are the experts!".. pfft. Whereas it all just works with Windows. AA setting is respected, all apps pay attention to the system, scaling works, etc. There's just minor stupid stuff around fonts in Linux too.. for example, if you want to know the version number of a font, you have to type an arcane string in the command line.. you can't just open or click on the properties of the file like you can in Windows. Hardware issues.. other than the driver issues which are absolutely the manufacturer's fault, some of them can be a challenge.. on Windows if you want to change your refresh rate or define a custom resolution/refresh it's easy.. with Linux you have to faff about in the command line, etc. Linux is a bridesmaid. |