[ffgjgf1]

> tell themselves to explain to themselves why they continue to tolerate Microsoft's abusive business practices.

The arrogance and smugness of some Linux users is probably the main reason for me. I just don’t want to be associated with that kind of people..

Generally unpolished UX and poor UI design (even by Windows standards…) is the second reason. Overall IMHO usually for consumer/desktop use cases all the tinkering you need to do on Linux to do many of the things that just work on Windows/macOS it’s just more trouble that it’s worth.. (unless you’re into masochism and there is nothing wrong with that).

[amlib]

>Generally unpolished UX and poor UI design (even by Windows standards…) is the second reason.

Sure Linux has plenty of it's own issues, but nowadays it's Windows that has degraded so much on the UX and UI department that I would dare say it is inferior to KDE and specially inferior to Gnome.

When you first boot into Windows 11 you realize that all programs sourced from microsoft itself are all based on inconsistent UX and UI. No program "skin" look alike, no button look similar. No modal dialog with a simple yes no question look "proper". Compare that to Windows 95 where everything was 1000x more consistent, it's like night and day. Even the stuff that uses the latest and greatest internal toolkit (that will surely be deprecated in a year) have that plain "flat" ui taken to the extreme that I at least find boring as hell.

And then you have to deal with two control panels to configure the system, a legacy they've been trying to move away since the win 8 days, with some dialogs that came up straight from windows 95 and windows 3.1 that still has the UX from those days... it's like living in an apartheid state, where each department at microsoft has to battle for their dear existence and fail at cooperating with each other.

And yes, I do feel smug when I realize a 3 Trillion dollar company fails at things that the open source community been nailing more and more every year. I guess linux is a cathartic experience nowadays. Can't get enough of it!

[lupusreal]

Good news, installing Linux doesn't teleport me into your living room. Complaining about other users is just another lame cope windows users use to excuse themselves (which wouldn't even be necessary if they were actually happy with their choice to use windows.)

[ffgjgf1]

It’s kind of weird that you’re so concerned about the happiness of Windows users…

To be honest I’m surprisingly happy* about Windows 11, after minimal amount of tweaking (less than I need on any Linux distro I tried to make it usable) I turned off most of the annoying stuff and I don’t really have much to complain about it + WSL

*the only thing I really want from an OS these days is to stay out of my way and require the minimal amount of pointless busywork from me (all the package management nonsense on Linux + permanent issues with Nvidia’s drivers).

[card_zero]

The phrase "a power user who eschews desktop environments" was irritating. It brings to mind a "power gamer", still playing Colossal Cave Adventure.