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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

When things go wrong in Windows at an app or third party software, stuff is often fixable. At worst you might need to reinstall the damn thing. But if the OS itself starts doing weird stuff, things often go to the headache territory really fast. Get a weird error, log says some OS component is going boom, no idea how to fix it, official instructions are along the lines of "Well if DISM and SFC are not going to fix it, looks like you need to reinstall the entire damn OS." Which usually wouldn't be a cause for anxiety, but blergh, muh preschus licence key, hope I won't screw that up.

Meanwhile, I ran one Debian install for over 20 years once. Stuff is usually very fixable indeed. There are good logs. It's rarely a complete mystery why some program is doing what it doing. At absolute worst you might need to look at the source code, which is actually rare.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A nonsensical amount of filepaths absolutely fucking everywhere to check for things.

Having to verify something installed/uninstalled correctly.

Pushing the button that says it does a thing, and it not actually doing that thing.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No touchpad gestures, terrible window management and a non-unix shell are the big ones for me with the Microsoft account AI bullshit being a close second.

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you last try windows 20 years ago or something? Windows definitely has touchpad gestures and robust window management. Dont get me wrong though, I don't like windows anymore either. Switched off it a year ago

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It has them but they are not 1:1. And you and I seem to have different definitions of "robust window management"

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I guess we do, because I have not seen any window management improvements at all when switching to linux.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I hated having to do everything in a window. The desktop wasn't really a thing.

https://youtu.be/oz3YuWfaKvI

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Trying to install Node-GYP. Dear God the errors

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Bill Gates, except when Ballmer was there.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

ITT people who didn't/couldn't install Windows via Rufus, and/or don't know how to set up an OS

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