I used to help maintain a Linux distro, and there is a level of polish Windows has that I feel cannot be reached by the FOSS ecosystem due the resources dumped into hiring dedicated teams at MS. Microsoft has tons of money. I’m sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it’s designed (which is in some cases awful).
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kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Let’s be honest, very few people who talk about how much they hate Microsoft will even consider alternatives
jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
c0ber@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
there was a time where that may have been the case, but microsoft has been chipping away at any polish they had for years. sure there’s still some rough edges in linux, but it’s only getting better where windows continues to get worse
AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as “polished”.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s a sliding scale
AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure. I could accept hearing “Windows is more polished than most Linux distro’s”. But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It’s jank as balls. It’s got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.
That’s just a single example. I could rant for hours.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s my point, people may complain but nothing else competes.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m sad about the direction of windows, but it generally works pretty well for how it’s designed
That is a bold claim. And absolutely wrong for many configurations.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
A good amount of Linux distros don’t seem to want to get the basics down. Constant churn vs stable but way out of date is more how is describe the choice, while windows at it’s core is actually a pretty stable platform. I don’t have to, for example, get annoyed at Firefox middle mouse scroll not working because I forgot this distro still defaults to x11 even though it installs Wayland too blah blah blah.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Firefox middle mouse scroll works fine in X11. I use it all the time. But I guess that’s beside the point; I’m sure we could come up with a different example.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
You right, that’s just a weird firefox setting
Was thinking of touch: superuser.com/…/enable-touch-scrolling-in-firefox
midimalist@lemdro.id 2 months ago
Yes, because I need Adobe to do my meh wage part-time job in developing country from my one and only working laptop and I don’t have the luxury of surplus money, time, and mental energy to do anything about it.
But I get your point. If I have the means, I will fix my broken Thinkpad and definitely install Linux there the first chance I get. Either that or Adobe finally release Linux version, which will probably be released after Half-Life 3.
I can’t wait to try Endeavor (so I can finally be an obnoxious person who say “I used Arch^-based^ ^distro^, btw”)
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Either that or Adobe finally release Linux version, which will probably be released after Half-Life 3.
Yeah, I’ve seen what Adobe’s support looks like. I remember the linux version of Flash Player. The guy in charge of it whined on the official Adobe blog on the subject that he had to support “minority browsers” which at the time was everything but Internet Explorer on Windows.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That’s my point exactly, Linux doesn’t come without sacrifice and few are willing to sacrifice anything for freedom
mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Adobe, you mean photoshop? github.com/MisconceivedSec/photoshop-22-linux
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You can run adobe products on Linux with Wine.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Adobe products barely work correctly on Windows, I wouldn’t want to try to run them in an environment that was even less supported
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Honestly that would make me want to run them in wine more. Wine environments can be controlled a lot easier than a Windows install can be.
rozodru@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
you could always duel boot or VM for your adobe stuff.
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Most people believe they will start seeing problems where there were none before. They need to invest time into research about their use-cases, which is a cost even before switching.
The typical user used Windows since before they became scared of change, so that’s what they’ll stick with.
The pain of using Windows still can and will be higher without the majority of people switching to anything.
asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The typical user used Windows since before they became scared of change, so that’s what they’ll stick with.
In some ways this was me, then win 11 came around and I really didn’t like it, and it was pretty unstable for me, so I was stuck between two options for change, neither being what I would call “comfortable” (I had to, win 10 was blue screening literally every other day) which was when I saw the steam deck announcement, (also the LTT Linux Challenge) and I haven’t given win 11 a serious try sense
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I don’t want to point fingers/cast shade or anything. Hell, I myself resist change where I can.
It costs incredible amounts of energy and time to change, and that change might even be counter productive to some or most of the things you do.
Gratulations on starting Linux, I hope it does everything you need it to do. Even if you should end up using it only for a short amount of time, I hope the experience enriches you.
UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’m not allowed to do my full-time job from any other computer besides the windows one assigned to me.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Doesn’t apply to the author here, so I don’t understand why you brought it up?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
It’s not a failure to consider the alternatives that slows adoption, it is the very real material problems with those alternatives.
It’s not fair that a multinational corporation gets to wield virtually limitless power to starge the alternatives of oxygen and create as much friction as possible in the process, but it is very real, and blaming the users won’t solve anything.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Can you provide a citation for your claims about the process of switching?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
The comment I replied to didn’t source their claim that it’s the users’ fault, but I notice you didn’t ask them to source their claims.
Perhaps you could explain why your skepticism is so selective before I answer your question.
And perhaps you could be more specific about what claim you want “sourced”. That the switch to linux has a lot of friction? That it’s difficult? That users aren’t simply failing to consider it? That blaming the users isn’t the solution?
What exactly do you want me to source?
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I didn’t notice or care about their comment, it was meaningless bs. Yours is something for which it’s feasible to provide evidence, it’s a novel claim, and I saw nothing to back it up other than hostility.
Everyone mostly agrees on this, not interesting
This is the interesting claim. After all Linux deliberately shoots its legs off every few years, why does Microsoft need to help?