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If you think your chosen OS doesn’t have irritations of a similar magnitude either you’re looking past them or they just don’t irritate you.

My Linux laptop has a problem where, when unsuspended while docked, tends to lose the dock in such a way that the USB devices attached to it become unusable - even if they are then plugged in directly; the USB stack just gets completely broken until reboot. It’s really annoying - but I put up with it, because there are other things about Linux I like. If I had switched from Windows to Linux because of a nag screen that I could just click to get rid of and this was what I got in return, I’d be back to Windows in a flash.

At this point I’ve been using Linux for multiple decades and would never go back. Not even if Windows became genuinely better. I mean, it has improved a lot since when I switched away, but I’m used to Linux now and it’s comfortable.

And that’s what people don’t get: Windows, for most people, is comfortable. Comfortable and good enough. There are many reasons why it’s not good enough for me, but most people don’t share the mindset behind those reasons, so they don’t apply to them.

So hopefully that explains “why stick with Microsoft”.

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Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m sure asbestos housing was also very comfortable until people started getting cancer.

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- FishFace@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Do you want to trim my hedge with that non-secuteur?
  
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SW42@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oh, I get that, it was more of a retro rival question because I read all those headlines about the shit Microsoft constantly tries to pull. I get comfortable and I’m sure there are some problems and growing pains but if you’re ready to get out of the comfort zone I think it is worth it.

I had the opposite issue where canon decided to stop supporting a scanner with incompatible drivers for windows 10. Linux and macOS were able to use it OOTB without me having to tinker with it. Swings and roundabouts I guess.

I’m not a lemming and am not shoving anything down anyone’s throat, but I guess people are apparently really triggered when someone merely brings it up.

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