it runs all apps,works with all hardware even “unsuppoted” ones with rufus.

it has pretty ui,great antivirus,and its free if you know where to look.

runs all games,can be customized with group policy and registery. gets latest game ready drivers,new gpus and hardware work on it instantly no wait for community to make it work.

no community needed you can just go to microsoft forums,or ai bec most windows problems are easy to solve.

great backwards compatibility.

extremely stable and never crashes

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Windows is bloat ware with a corporate coat of paint, older games will require a bit of work to get working so also fits backwards compatibility issues and “extremely stable and never crashes”? BSOD is only a Windows exclusive and Windows doesn’t need community support because why would anyone have fun helping a multi billion dollar company, while Linux can be work and a hobby.

    • signup@sh.itjust.worksBannedOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      1 you can get ltsc version or just run script to remove tracking

      2 then install the visual c++ things and directx,and whatever bs games need if they run old directx verisons (only needed this with chicken invaders 1 og on windows 11).

      3 windows 11 never crashed for me

      4 there is windows forums user ran that help users ,i didnt mention them bec you dont even need them you can ask microsoft directly in their forum.

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    If you’re talking windows 7 UI, I agree. If you talk about Win 11, the UI is dogshit. KDE on Linux is like Valve right now. It does nothing and wins with whatever pseudo innovation Microslop comes up with.

    Backwards compatibility on windows is mid. If you want to run games from windows 95 era, good luck. Meanwhile on Linux, there’s full support for win95.

    That said Linux native app backwards compatibility actually sucks donkey balls and is unsolved problem noone wants to talk about.

  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’ll also give credit to windows for compatibility. If I compile something on the latest Ubuntu it won’t work on a slightly older one. IDK why they seem to hate static linking so much.

    I can still compile stuff for XP on Windows.

  • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Windows is quite slower than Mint or OpenSUSE. The startup time is slow, like really sloooow. I had to run through hoops to get auto updates disabled. I can’t customize powershell as much as I can configure Bash.

    it has pretty ui

    So great of a ui that I can’t change anything beyond colours. I atleast had a windows classic theme till win7.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    you got my upvote. I mean maybe in the aughts for the average person but today it beats out osx to me. runs all apps. I mean windows apps. not so great with mac or linux or bsd ones but they do a good job of running windows ones. far better than windows does theirs. I will give you its pretty much cornered the antivirus market. its ui has been better an other versions of others beat it out. I have had much worse times fixing windows issues including hardware. there is certainly a larger group of people talking about them so finding a solution is easier due to volume but what actually has to be done to fix them is usually way more annoying. ill give you its backwards compatiblity is great but less than backwards compatibility of both mac and linux and bsd’s. stable and never crashes??? I mean many of its problems can be fixed with a reboot but bsod is a well known term.

          • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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            8 months ago

            to little to late. heck 7 is the one I liked best. should have switche about half a decade earlier at least.

            • signup@sh.itjust.worksBannedOPEnglish
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              8 months ago

              tbh i only had few bsod on windows 10 and they were from firefox. when i left firefox for brave they stopped. so my bsods werent even windows problem but firefox’s.

              but i did try firefox again on windows 11 and no bsod happened but i still use brave.

              • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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                8 months ago

                An OS that allows its appilcations to take over and crash it isn’t a great OS.

                But it is a common thing for Windows, so users have become accustomed to it being normal.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Linux runs all apps for Linux and many apps for windows. Windows doesn’t run any Linux apps.

    KDE has a beautiful interface that both lets you customize damn near everything and doesn’t push ads in the OS.

    Linux doesn’t need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it’s inherently more secure and a smaller attack vector.

    Linux is free, and your point about pirating Windows is dumb AF. It’s $120 for the base version legally.

    Linux runs almost every game that doesn’t have kernel level anti cheat malware with proton.

    Linux supports more hardware than MS by far. Try running a 10 year old CPU on windows 11. Nvidia isn’t ideal on Linux, but it also works and updates are built in with kernel updates. Bonus, you can cherry pick updates if desired.

    The Arch wiki is better than anything MS has to offer in regards to documentation and there are forums everywhere for help, with real people, not copilot generated slop. Each major distro, which means you have options, also has well developed forums and support.

    As mentioned, Linux also has backwards compatibility, but better.

    I run Arch and also never crash, and that’s one of the most “unstable” distros out there. Something like Debian makes Windows look like a beta project.

    Your arguments sound like they are from someone that’s never used Linux, only read aged forum posts, and has to rely on piracy as positive note.

    Extra bonuses for Linux is that it’s faster by almost every metric, a fraction of the size and resource consumption, actually free, not shoving AI shit into it, truly customizable at every level, and doesn’t steal all of your private information.

    • signup@sh.itjust.worksBannedOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      windows also runs all linux apps even gui ones,and desktop envs with wsl2.

      i did use linux before,didnt like it.

      and yes i do see piracy as a positive,and the point is you can see your apps easily if you pirate windows. see i didnt mention windows is better for poweruser i just said better. so this includes everyday people.

      i did also run windows 11 on 10 year old cpu it works fine after rufus bypass. but i had to reflash windows after every feature update. by extracting the iso for new feature update and running setup.exe,then choosing keep apps and data and reinstall. it reinstalls my os and keeps apps and data i lived like this for a while not just a try.

      windows runs all games even the anti cheat ones.

      who cares about arch wiki,windows has fixes in youtube and more visible places in internet like microsoft forum or gemini or whatever ai person uses(most use ai now)

      • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        So by “windows supports backwards compatibility” you mean you have to bypass Windows in order to use it? That’s a hack, not compatibility.

        You can think piracy is a positive, but the fact that you have to do that in order to use the OS isn’t a win.

        Anti cheat is malware. It has broken Windows installs. I’m not in the habit of installing malware on my computer intentionally. Just the ability to do so is a net negative to Windows.

        Do you think Linux doesn’t have forums, videos, and is also scraped by LLMs like Gemini?

        Ubuntu, Mint, and other distros are very simple to use for average users and it just works with a load of pre installed, open source apps out of the box. No need to buy private software or go out, find, and download alternatives. It’s easier to install than Windows, and it doesn’t make you bypass the OOBE in order to create a local account. Only power users would know the steps in order to do so and they are also the ones knowing the implications of using a live account. Windows by default stores you private bitlocker key in Azure and has given that over to the government to bypass you private data. That’s not a thing with Linux.

        Linux doesn’t have rewind malware either.

      • HeyLow (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        windows also runs all linux apps even gui ones,and desktop envs with wsl2.

        And any windows apps run through winboat, wine, or virtual box.

        i did also run windows 11 on 10 year old cpu it works fine after rufus bypass.

        Linux runs on everything even calculators no bypass needed.

        windows runs all games even the anti cheat ones.

        I mean this one there are many ways. Proton will run most games out of the box even anticheat ones(unless the developer specifically goes out of their way to block support like d2 and r6s). Since would brought up wsl as a positive for windows in the same vein we can also run any anti cheat games through a vm and we can use GPU passthrough to get full performance unlike wsl. Even the anti cheat ones.

        who cares about arch wiki,windows has fixes in youtube and more visible places in internet like microsoft forum or gemini or whatever ai person uses(most use ai now)

        There is more information about fixes for Linux than Windows full stop. Even on Gemini or whatever llm is popular

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Another totally real account being created just to post this? Got to love fake engagement farming.

  • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Anywhere but lemmy, this wouldn’t be unpopular ;)

    I don’t agree with the opinion, having recently been forced to do shit on Windows 11 and ran into so many issues because of microsoft that it was infuriating. Since Microsoft insists on baking in their bullshit and making it hassle to navigate around, I say that that is also a flaw in windows.

    But I used to mostly like windows. Win7 in particular fit my needs as well or better at the time than mu current distro of choice does now.

    I will add the caveat that before proton, that was less true because gaming sucked on linux for me before proton happened. But almost everything else was better, so I sucked it up for daily driving and only used win7 for gaming and music management/listening.

    Now, I only use my win7 install for musicbee. I mean, I do use it for other things while it’s booted up, but I dunno if solitaire is a relevant use for this discussion lol.

    I’ll also say that, depending on distro, linux can be a pain in the ass to some degree or another, even after the learning curve is handled. Not worse than windows, just in slightly different ways (wifi issues in particular can be a bitch to handle)

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    ‘extremely stable and never crashes’

    Wow, ragebait much? LOL!

    Laughs in Penguin accent 😂🤣🐧