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entropie | 3 months ago

Yeah. I know this one.

Its the same story since like 15+ years now.

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freehorse|3 months ago

Well, with the windows 10 support ending, it is different now. To some extent staying on windows requires more effort than switching, which is an interesting place to be. I have "switched" people to macos or linux that before would not even bother and hear such stories everywhere. The linux ecosystem has matured and windows is no longer the easy/bugfree experience that was. Eg I tried to install linux and windows to some brand new hardware couple of years ago, linux worked out of the box while for windows I had to go troubleshooting mode and find/download/install drivers manually. 10-15 years ago or so it was always the opposite.

entropie|3 months ago

> Eg I tried to install linux and windows to some brand new hardware couple of years ago,

I realized this too. I recently installed a dual boot Fedora/Win11. The fedora installation was literally pressing 4 times "Next" and was done after 5 minutes.

Windows took well over 1 hour (offline account) and installing drivers and taming edge & co was over 2 hours at the end.