It’s a lot easier to accept bugs when you’re not paying for it, it’s not spying on you, it lets you do what you want, and it respects your freedom.
Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoLet’s not pretend that Linux is without bugs.
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It is a hell of a lot less buggy
And the bugs that are there we are aware of. Microsoft may or may not fix severe security bugs, opting to hide the information instead because it’s better for their bottom line
Microsoft always had been a bug riddled mess that people paid for and then they needed to pay even more to be able to get their shit still working
Now with the AI slop apparently contributing 30% of the code, things have gone off a cliff
So no, nobody is pretending Linux is bug-less, it’s just that Microsoft is that bad
mech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
In 20 years I never had a system-breaking (or really even any noticeable) bug from an update.
flameleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t lock you out of your C: drive
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also remember that it’s called C drive because your A and B drives are still floppy drives in 2026
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The downvotes for this little nugget of truth suggest to me that linux fans are somewhat cultish.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I made my comment as I am tired of fanboyism, I have daily driven Linux in the past, I was the Linux sysadmin at a major financial institution for years, Linux is awesome!
But please don’t get arrogant and claim it is faultless, with constructive criticism it can only get better.
Right now I am running Windows as my daily, and my work is only in Windows.
I dailied Linux back in the 2.8 days, I remember a class mate having to manually edit the kernel source code to get his USB mobile broadband modem to work, I had modems from another brand, so I only had to run USB mode switcher to get mine working.
I set up Fluxbox from scratch to get a fantastic UI experience on my laptop.
I know Linux.
I switched back to Windows for gaming, and now with W11 and gaming support for Linux, I am looking to move back to Linux.
I am no Windows nor Linux fanboy.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s not so much Linux fanboyism as it is Windows (whatever the total polar opposite of fanboyism is)
The only good argument for Windows is specific software compatibility. If there were equivalent solutions on both for everything, it is an absolute truth that Windows is worse.
That is not an opinion, outside of intentionally wanting to be commercially oppressed.
Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Also games access to your kernel just screams to me “I wanna have fun and don’t care about security at all, now gimme my fortnite vbux mom” in the most middle-school voice possible.
Wow, how quickly people forget…
Back in 2011, with kernel 2.8.x, gaming on Linux was nothing like it is today, it required dedication, skills and time.
And at the time I didn’t have the energy to deal with it.
Matty_r@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Let’s not pretend that Microslop is capable of producing good software.
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I don’t know about that, XP, 2000 and 7 was pretty solid.
ElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Not gonna mention Windows 8? Hmm I wonder why…
socphoenix@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or vista lol, or windows 98 that was so bad they essentially recalled it and re-released it as a second version?
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because it was shit.
I never claimed that everything MS did was good
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
XP was probably their most solid OS. And that shouldn’t be a brag.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reputation is such a strange phenomenon. XP was considered a disaster at launch. It took them years to repair everything that didn’t work.
The rollout of 64 bit architecture support was so sloppy that people were holding on to old hardware so as to not have to install the x64 version of XP. The premiere of the NT kernel meant that nothing had drivers, most software wasn’t compatible yet. DirectX 9 broke half of old games compatibility. There were also two entirely different versions of the shell with dramatically different start menus. Some versions didn’t support multi core CPUs.
It wasn’t until the end life of XP and the launch of Vista that people started to cling to XP and its reputation switched due to a mix of nostalgia and fear of the much worse launch of Vista.
bilb@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I think .net is pretty good. People love VS Code.