• SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    Windows and Linux are both easy to use… Provided that everything works out of the box.

    Once you have to actually start solving problems, Windows really starts to fall down because you have to spend ages looking through settings and perhaps installing tools like bcd editors. Like seriously, the number of places you can manage your microphone settings are insane.

    At this point, I think the only people that say Windows is easier are those that have never had to reinstall it or who have been using it since the XP days and haven’t realised that it is all learned knowledge.

    I certainly think Linux tooling could be improved (a graphical fstab editor would be nice), but I struggle to see how troubleshooting in Windows is any easier than Linux.

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      8 months ago

      Linux applications often give you some descriptive error that you can paste into an internet search and usually find someone who had the same problem.

      Windows applications just stop working and say “UNEXPECTED ERROR” or smth. Like thanks you literally didn’t help at all.

      • macniel@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        Unexpected error, let’s hope that the application writes into eventmgr or has some other logging system.