| I am using Ubuntu right now and have used it off and on alongside Windows the past few years. Ubuntu is pretty bad, and my favorite setup was Windows with WSL used for software development. I got the best of both worlds that way. It was a real computer, with a real OS, but also good for dev. I have not had an experience in recent memory where I got ads in Windows for McAfee or anything else. I had 0 popups within the past like 5 years for sure, if not decade. Sounds like your GF is installing weird crap that installs bloatware. Here is a non-exhausitve list of all the problems that I have experienced since using a spare Linux machine I had as my main and only computer for the past several months (my Windows computer is out of commission): Multiple ways to install software and not all of them auto-update properly. My second monitor occasionally freezes for no reason (I'm just a lucky Linux user that it even works). I can't use it with my wide MSI monitor, so I have a useless ~250+ USD monitor in my closet right now. Docking station I have--which worked perfectly well with Windows computer--needs to be in some weird tilted position, like an old TV antenna, to work properly. Randomly having to copy and paste commands from the internet to install things. The process of installing most things on this computer--whether a command line tool or just consumer GUI software--is just bad and fraught. Recently had an issue with Discord where I originally installed it via Snap, but that version didn't update automatically an update ago. Instead, the Discord client downloaded the .deb of the latest version from me, which I then had to manually run a command to install. Then I ended up with 2 separate Discord clients on my computer. Neither are auto-updating to the latest version, so I just use Discord in my browser now instead of trying to deal with that. Honestly, this has actually been the least fraught episode of using Ubuntu I have experienced since I first started to use it ~9 years ago. At least this time, dual monitors worked out of the box, for example. Windows is a perfectly usable OS, esp if you're coming from Ubuntu, which tries to have a GUI experience on par with Mac and Windows anyways. It is definitely Ubuntu that feels like a toy OS to me as far as most day-to-day use is concerned. |