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

  • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    19 hours ago

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

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 days ago

    free if you know where to look

    are you suggesting a benefit of windows is you can “illegally” get a copy and install it? instead of actually free linux distro?

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 day 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
    242·
    2 days ago

    ‘extremely stable and never crashes’

    Wow, ragebait much? LOL!

    Laughs in Penguin accent 😂🤣🐧

    • FatVegan@leminal.spaceEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      The most shocking /surprising thing i found using linux so far is that you can hit the system button, whatever thing, type something in the search bar and it just finds it. It doesn’t ask copilot, it doesn’t show bing results, it shows a real file that is on my computer.

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      32·
      2 days ago

      Look i think Linux is definitely better than Windows, but if you’re saying Windows computers crash more than very rarely then you don’t know what you’re talking about. Windows OS itself basically never crashes. This has been true for many years now.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    5·
    1 day ago

    I really, really, really love windows. Especially the huge ones in my office that I get to look out of while happily using my Linux computer. Just, love, those, windows!

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
    11·
    2 days ago

    Edit: Personalized my comment a bit more so it reflected some of my personal experiences. As I kneejerk reactioned hard initially.

    ROFL This reads like rage bait and delusion to be perfectly honest…As most of this post is at least true for Windows 10, but not 11 (which is a vibe coded and LLM stuffed nightmare). I always found that tweaking the registry was something to do only when there was no other choice, as it could cause more harm than good at times. Local Policy is a step up from that on Pro Version, enjoyed tweaking my system that way. Microsoft Forums is a community, and AI is a gassed up LLM (which can hallucinate and tell you lies while sounding correct).

    This makes me chuckle and snort, while enjoying openSUSE Tumbleweed without worry!

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      LOLz in Windows XP registry, I’ve got a little over half a megabyte of custom registry tweaks that I’ve carefully crafted for Windows XP systems, to streamline it to the max, lock it down and make it about as private as humanly possible. Almost a whole megabyte if you count my MicroXP specific tweaks.

      I even made sure to disable Terminal Services, Background Intelligent Transfer Services, Automatic Updates, File and Printer Sharing, and basically any useless service that anyone in their sane mind should disable if still using XP for whatever reason (mostly virtual machine use here).

      Anything past XP in a VM for legacy software, I’m running Linux Mint MATE as my actual daily runner.

      Still funny you’d say that seasoned Windows users never tweak the registry, I ate it up and spit out the whole system configuration the way I wanted.

      • LostWanderer@fedia.io
        2·
        1 day ago

        Well, XP was generally less complex, and rarely had any problems in my opinion. I personally think registry edits got riskier past XP up until 10…When it became a bigger gamble (especially using Vista,7,8).

        I opted for Pro version and local policy was the safer option. I guess my experience was WAY different. Could be hardware or a few mistyped entries, little bit of both, I suppose.

        • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          My basic registry philosophy, aside from the obvious do a lotta fuckin research was to track all the default settings, configure everything the way I want, and save all the registry values for the settings I changed.

          My bigger registry philosophy was to research all the possible values under major registry keys, even hidden ones not available as any convenient Control Panel GUI option. Configure all that to my liking as well, and backup my entire configuration. Well, whatever differs from defaults anyways.

          Then, whenever I’d install XP on another system, I could just import a small handful of registry files and have 99.9℅ of everything already configured my way.

          I could easily merge all that into a single registry file, but I broke it down into major basic categories, like Interface, Services, etc…

          • LostWanderer@fedia.io
            2·
            1 day ago

            I certainly tried my best with the research part and often succeeded on XP more than any other Windows version. I think it was a bit overwhelming for me at the time because I somewhat understood computers, needed human language to demystify the kind computers could use for specific modifications and tasks. I am starting to reach that point with Linux, I didn’t get there 100% with Windows, knew just enough to get by.

        • LostWanderer@fedia.io
          1·
          1 day ago

          I find config files to be the safest thing to modify because the results are often predictable and don’t cause my heart rate to increase.

    • signup@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      im saying all this about windows 11 and i daily drive it. im serious this isnt a ragebait,if it was i would clown on linux users but i didnt.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 days 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.worksOPEnglish
      36·
      2 days 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
        5·
        1 day 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 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        1 day 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

  • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 day 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.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    7·
    2 days 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.worksOPEnglish
      21·
      2 days 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.