| As a linux user since linux's entire life: Yeah. Simply facts that are true. There are problems on Windows too, but they are not these problems, and the problems I mostly have are only problems I have and not problems the usual Windows user has. The normal windows user doesn't even try to login without a microsoft account, or even try to remove cortana/bing/copilot/whatever-this-week, remove edge, prevent the "HP Smart" driver bundle that installs for every HP printer or scanner these days and find the old style drivers without all the cloud shit, etc. But I have not found scaling to be especially good on windows either, even with a simple single monitor. My mother in law can't run viber in her desktop because the app scales so bizarrely that some buttons are moved under other things or out of the window or even off the screen, but on top of that, the active areawhere a click is registered does not overlay where the buttons are displayed on screen. Maybe it's just an especially crappy app but she only uses like 3 things and two of those are firefox and libreoffice (which are because I set them up of coursae she never asked for that). Fonts look ridiculously comically bad in browsers for some reason. And of course the ads and notifications and onedrive nagging... |
Thanks for understanding the spirit of my point about the shortcomings above and I really like the way you phrased the "Windows has its issues as well, they're just different ones" - and I completely agree there.
With Windows you need to navigate the Microsoft account, files getting stored in OneDrive, updates happening outside your control (arguably a good thing for most users), and more that I'm sure I'm not thinking of.
I do think the Windows issues are more abstract like security, privacy, and default on features - while the Linux ones tend to be more in my face usability ones. Again agreeing that choosing your hardware and desk/laptop setup can alleviate many of things. But that requires knowing ahead of time and people switching in reaction to something Windows is doing don't get that benefit.
I guess I'm writing all this because the idea of a Linux distribution working perfectly on most/all laptops really excites me and I think being candid about the shortcomings yet providing support to the distributions is how we can get ace these fit and finish issues.
Food for thought for anyone else reading this - the end goal of Linux for everyone is why I don't get too worked up about snaps. If they get to a point where I can tell my mom she can safely install apps X, Y, and Z by pointing and clicking in the app center it's a great computing future.