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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure, and how easy was it to fix those issues?

Usually it is nothing more than either reversing an update or waiting for the next update in Windows.

While in Linux you'd have to re-import the correct repositories through command line and it might still not work, explain that to your parents.

[–] TwilightVulpine 9 points 1 year ago

How easy? Not at all. I've had to format the whole computer several times that reversing updates failed. At which point using Linux wouldn't have been any harder.

[–] Thoth19 7 points 1 year ago

Poke about in registry, Google problems where the solutions are for the wrong version of windows, wade through driver problems, find that the issue is in a toggle that used to be easy to find in control panel but now is buried under layers of crap

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Usually it is nothing more than either reversing an update or waiting for the next update in Windows.

...Waiting with a non-functional computer until the next update?... Really?...

While in Linux you'd have to re-import the correct repositories through command line and it might still not work, explain that to your parents.

Why would a non-technical person ever need to use 3rd-party repos? Besides that, "reimporting" a repo is just adding 3-5 lines of text to a file, which can be done via gEdit, or, in most cases, through the settings in a distro's package manager UI.