[hospitalJail]

I shutter at the idea of using another Windows Operating system.

Imagine booting your computer and having to give an email to login offline.

Then you click on a link and it auto opens through edge, "DO YOU WANT TO IMPORT AND GIVE US YOUR PRIVACY?"

Or imagine you try to uninstall some microsoft app, it doesn't let you, you try to remove it thorugh the registry but the top 10 results on google are outdated with a different windows.

2 hours later, your computer reboots automatically during a windows update. Everything is turned off, you are dealing with autosaves, you re-open your browser and tons of tabs open slowly.

Finally you save some files in your local documents pictures folder, and start getting nagged about not having enough space in OneDrive. No big deal I don't use that. Lets delete OneDrive. Oh my god I lost all of my files.

[sickofparadox]

For all the problems gaming on Linux has, I will never again have to suffer through the buffooneries of windows. I finally made the switch when paint3d improperly updated, causing my PC to go straight to the BSOD whenever I opened the start menu, task manager, or the file explorer. How these things connected I will never know, but using powershell to remove paint3d was what ultimately saved my bacon. This was during finals week while I was in college as well, I had to convince multiple professors to give me extensions on papers since I basically could not operate my computer.

[unpopularopp]

I can imagine but none of these are happening on my Windows PC :shrug:

I'm not saying you are wrong but I can also wrote about anecdotal experiences about Linux and spending hours in the terminal fixing problems, googling forums for hours and such.

But I get it, it's an easy ragebait on HN and works all the time

[realusername]

Honestly I don't see how you could avoid those on Windows unless you are using a customized ISO with everything striped out or never upgraded from Windows 7. It's not something that may happen, it's the stock experience nowadays.

[unpopularopp]

Windows 10 LTSC

Nothing is preinstalled and the rest (like the update policy) takes like 10 minutes to set up maximum. I mean I'd spend the same time on other OSes well setting up after a fresh install

[therein]

I'm too cautious to ever log into my Password Manager on my Windows machine.

It also loves to reboot on its own has no respect for anything I am doing.

dwm.exe and explorer.exe leaking GPU memory for years too. Go to Task Manager > Details > Right click the details column > Add graphics memory. Sort by top users. You'll see that both of these processes are leaking GPU memory like there is no tomorrow.

Nowadays, I always have to kill both and have them respawn before any gaming on Windows.

[sumtechguy]

That is an intel video driver bug. I had the same issue. Newer driver cleaned it up.

[unpopularopp]

Interesting, I never had a problem (RTX 4080 currently)

https://i.imgur.com/mMyQdH0.png

What GPU and driver you are using?

[baq]

dwm leaking memory is basically always your gfx drivers. update.

[therein]

Good to know. Will do.

[nylonstrung]

Just use a debloat script and it fixes a lot of this

[CursedUrn]

You can't fix all of it. Microsoft is very aggressive about re-enabling certain "features" and new ones arrive regularly. Try watching Performance Monitor during the night, you'll be surprised at which files Microsoft are accessing regularly without your consent.

[postgressomethi]

> Imagine booting your computer and having to give an email to login offline.

As much as I hate what modern Windows has become, this is not actually true. If you know the correct sequence of clicks you can avoid this. Not defending this bullshit, though.

[wlesieutre]

They've made it much more difficult than it was even a couple of years ago when you could just install without the computer connected to the internet. Now you have to start with an internet connection and then disconnect partway through and jump through command line hoops to make the installer let you keep installing

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-witho...

[WD-42]

I have windows still for occasional gaming and the random reboots are just infuriating. How is this remotely acceptable for an operating system to do. I feel like it happens even when I explicitly tell the OS to sleep. And then I wake it up and everything has been closed. Some apps attempt to restore state, but never really works.

[asylteltine]

Yes windows is the worst. I can’t wait until AAA devs are forced to support Linux. I’m hoping steam starts to mandate supporting Linux in order to be listed. It’s just not that much more effort

[jillesvangurp]

All the smart ones probably already test their games on proton. IMHO they'd be idiots if they didn't. Stuff just works mostly and when it doesn't it's probably relatively easy to address the issues for developers. And of course the Steam Deck is becoming a pretty popular console so there's that as well. Steam on Linux is becoming a pretty nice juicy market with quite a few users. Targeting that is going to be an easy choice. Especially when it is essentially almost no effort to do so.

[asylteltine]

Most AAA games do not work on proton because the devs refuse to allow the anti cheat to run. Most anti cheat support Linux but the devs have to allow it.

Destiny, R6, cod, etc refuse to support Linux.