Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken

• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but for several years and on several different machines I’ve found Linux just works, while Windows is an endless treadmill of frustration and brokenness.

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  • heydo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m the exact opposite, every Linux install has something fucked, but I’ve never experienced any of these major Windows issues.

    Of course I never update immediately, an old habit. And I do experience plenty of issues with Windows like everyone else does, I’ve just been lucky with the major issues.

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Went from mint to cachyOS and besides some things being different it just works.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What didn’t Microsoft steal?

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    • A version of libc that has POSIX shims.
    • A filesystem with reflink support.
    • A consistent UI design across old and new programs.
    • Dark mode that works everywhere.
    • Respect for their users’ autonomy.

    Need I go on?

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my heart

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Quit laying blame on my fart

      My fart…

      My fart.

      I should have known I did shart

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well compated to others it did kind of just work. Plug&play, USB, most simple peripherics didn’t need a driver to be manually installed and configured.

  Windows 98 I guess.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Windows 98 SE, maybe. We didn’t gain much traction there until about Win2k or XP.

    Windows 98 in its original flavor didn’t even support USB mass storage devices out of the box without drivers. Hands up everyone who remembers having to carry around one of those tiny driver CDs that came in the box with every single Sandisk Cruzer for a couple of years? Yeah? How quickly we forget.

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    • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ✋

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My recollection is that USB on windows was kind of a dumpster fire until XP. Or maybe that was just printers in general.

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    • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hell I remember when USB on PCs was basically a set of pins on the motherboard and you had to buy the actual port assembly separately and hope there was somewhere reasonable on your case to mount it. Was going absolutely nowhere on PC until the iMac came and did away with all other ports and no peripherals built in.

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      • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I remember my sister winning an iPod and gave it to me, because she didn’t need it. I had to run to the computer store in town to purchase a USB deck for my motherboard. Fun times.

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