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by wing-_-nuts 781 days ago
I built my first gaming pc in 20 years about a month ago. Before, I had been mainly using linux as my os of choice. Windows is so very. painful. in comparison. Windows apparently replaced CMD with the janky powershell instead of adopting literally any popular unix shell. There's advertising and web results scattered all over the OS. Windows still doesn't have a cohesive apt-get type update functionality even though debian and other distros have had that since the mid 90s (a program such as MSI aferburner could simply register a repo url like how linux distros use PPAs, etc). Window's networking is janky, and it's firewall is pretty bad.

Honestly, the only reason I'm using windows is because I want a flawless gaming / vr experience on my $2500 gaming / ai machine. If not for that, or if I was ok with a little jank from proton, I'd go back to linux in a heartbeat. Windows is a penalty box in every other domain except for gaming. WSL only makes it livable.