Windows fixed the reason I tried Linux (untimely forced updates). The reason for forcing was valid, but they did drag their feet on resolving when it was updated (which is finally resolved).
People hate the 'new start menu', but I can start typing just about anything I want to adjust and go right to the settings without having to remember the structure for getting there.
Dynamic tiling has come about and improved both natively with PowerTools, and third party (Komorebi).
The interface has been beautified with centered taskbar icons, rounded corners, and new materials like Mica and Smoke for transparency effects.
Widgets provide a personalized feed of news, weather, traffic, sports, and stock market data.
Users can organize, and open windows more efficiently with Snap layouts and Snap groups.
Game performance is improved by Direct Storage allowing games to load data directly to the GPU, reducing load times.
The 24H2 update employs rewritten core platform code in Rust, enhancing speed and reduces memory bugs.
Phone Link shows battery level, connectivity status, and recent messages in the Start Menu. It also allows easy transfer of files (integrating with File Explorer), texting from PC.
Live Captions for audio and video content, making it more accessible.
Support for Wi-Fi 7, offering faster and more reliable wireless connections.
Energy Saver Mode to extend battery on mobile devices.
Improved context buttons, support for TAR and 7z compression, and the ability to edit PNG metadata.
What's stopping some Russian virus writer from making a virus that bricks motherboards? The root problem for this isn't Windows or Linux, it's that motherboard manufacturers implement UEFI in a way that the operating system can interfere with the firmware and brick the motherboard. That it might be easier on Linux vs Windows isn't putting the blame where it belongs.
Linux has some safeguards, too. Almost every desktop distribution of Linux ships with the version of
rmthat won't recursively delete from root without the flag-no_preserve_rootand I don't think you're going to argue that someone could type that by accident.But no, on the whole, Linux is a more advanced operating system, and the things I enjoy about it come from the things that make it different.
For one, it talks to me about what the problem is. If I'm having a problem, it doesn't just bluescreen and give me some random error code. Something will crash, but I can swap to a TTY when my GUI stops responding, check the kernel buffer, and see that I'm out of disk space on / for some reason. So I'll delete some files and get the system usable again, clean up my root disk to create some space, and keep going with my life.
This is just flatly not true. Debian and other non-bleeding-edge distributions don't push the most modern version of packages, but they do push modern security patches.
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/security-update.en.html
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If it's fair game to point out how Intel made a bad driver for Linux that can damage a display, I think it's also fair game to point out that Cloudstrike caused major reputational damage to Windows because of the nature of their kernel-level driver having a bug that caused an almost global systems outage.
Like it or not, software is complex at a level we rarely give it credit for being, and it's all written by imperfect humans. Sometimes things happen.
Sure, because trolling in an echo chamber gets boring.
You're posting in here multiple times per day, almost every day, for months. Same with /c/linuxsucks.
I'm torn between being sad on your behalf or impressed that you're so dedicated to grinding this axe.
Given that you're not touching the TPM part of the conversation anymore, I'll say that while I don't think you're an idiot, I'm confident that you're not nearly as knowledgeable about this as you'd have everyone believe.
So now I'm just wondering how long it'll take for you to break out the banhammer because I'm not fitting into your little box the way you want me to.
Malicious troll is what I think. Have you read his takes on FOSS software? To paraphrase,
If nothing else, he's very passionate about showing how much it bothers him that people can have different opinions about operating systems. He's obsessed over it, or else he wouldn't make two different communities and post in them daily about how much he hates Linux.
I hate Windows with a burning passion for a number of extremely valid reasons, but I only say something about it here and there. I've got too much to do IRL to be this bothered about anything online.
Yep. He seems to take offense at Linux and the minority of users who are evangelizing it, yet is hypocritically just as vocal and pushy about his hatred for anything FOSS.
It's software, and it's not forced on people outside of careers in a subset of a specific industry. If he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to use it. There's much better things to be spending time on.
Honestly, it reminds me of when I was a teenager. Full of that overwhelming sense of confidence that I knew better than others, looking for arguments to pick online. After a couple of times being shown clearly how little I knew, I started talking less and listening more.
With a fulltime tech job, two kids, and an ex-wife to deal with I just don't have the time to grind online axes anymore.