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
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Another totally real account being created just to post this? Got to love fake engagement farming.
C’mon man, if you’re gonna troll at least put some effort in
not a troll. i wrote real details
“all apps” not so sure about that
“pretty ui” if you like it. So many tastes and flavors out there …
i think its implied that i mean all windows apps. dont be pedantic.
its pretty ui regardless if you like it or not . its made with Psychology
Made with psychology? The fuck?
i think its implied that i mean all windows apps. dont be pedantic.
In that case, linux runs all linux apps.
no it doesnt. get an old binary and try to run it on latest arch
OK, get some 8 or 16 bit apps and run them on windows 11.
Yes you! All I care about is you. What apps you use. What ui you like. All you know is all i know.
so your argument is that Windows can run Windows apps?..
Windows is so shit nowadays that it’s surprising that their own apps work
you can just go to microsoft forums
Now I KNOW you’re a troll.
why? i found them useful before
Please run ‘sfc /scannow’
Be sure to mark this problem as solved!
In decades of running sfc /scannow I have seen it accomplish something… once… maybe twice… out of thousands…
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)
Have you tried AisleRiot Solitaire?
Would like to add Kpatience, if you’re into KDE!
I have not!
My current preference for S̵o̵l̵i̵t̵a̵i̵r̵e̵ (Freecell) tho there are plenty of alternative *nix versions.
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?
Microsoft publishes the licensing script.
yes bec it actually runs the apps most people need. and they know how to use it
“It’s better because you can steal it.” Is not a perk when compared to just being free.
*everything crashes
‘extremely stable and never crashes’
Wow, ragebait much? LOL!
Laughs in Penguin accent 😂🤣🐧
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.
Yeah, this is some of the laziest “ragebait” I’ve ever seen…
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.
doesnt crash for me
Well you must not be using the computer then, cuz that’s about the only way Windows 11 won’t crash sooner or later.
You having fun troll?
idk what your on. i use my laptop everyday and it never crashes.
It probably never turns off or goes to sleep either.
You’re a silly troll, you know like the rest of us that modern Windows is garbage anymore. You wouldn’t even be on the Fediverse if you weren’t at least slightly educated in the current tech scene.
i do turn it off and then on i want to use it. i used linux before,yet i like windows more.
windows isnt garbage thats just a fact if it was corps and govs wouldnt use it.
Even governments are ditching Windows and the whole Microslop ecosystem, have you been living under a rock?
But go ahead, go signup to the slop…
thats a singular gov denmark. all other countries use windows (beside north korea or smth)
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!
Extremely stable and never crashes
I mean, sure… If you just let it sit there doing nothing. 🤷♂️
i do use it and it still doesnt crash
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!
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.
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.
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…
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.
Yeah, not having registry edits is like not modifying config files on a Linux based OS, possible but you might as well be using a Chromebook
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.
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.
Using Windows means giving my data for pedophiles to monetiza so no, thanks.
you know windows isnt made by episten right?
You know Bill Gates is still a large shareholder and is in the Trump-Epstein files, yes?
i didnt know no bec i never cared about epsiten thing that much. i figured no justice would be serviced by usa for vicitms
Now i can’t decide anymore if you’re a troll, really really slow or just a regular american
none of the above.
Congratulations on being alienated.
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.
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)
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.
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
An actually unpopular opinion? gasp
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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.
its not slow. if its slow for you get an nvme
Windows is slower than Linux regardless of what hard drive you have.
What’s nvme?
