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    [–] Digester 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    It's situational, I'll tell you that. I build PCs and repair them as a side hassle and I'm not saying I never come across issues with Windows (even dating back to the XP days) but I find the troubleshoot process much easier than on Linux regardless of the distro. What I mostly come across is viruses and malwares which I have to clean up on those machines.

    Windows breaks in all sorts of new and interesting ways when it finally meets the real world.

    I would love if you could elaborate on that, I don't want to misunderstand. If I have to guess, for some users the "real world" doesn't go past office work.

    I don't doubt a serious Linux power user would find their way out of most situations. The steep learning curve for Linux is what's keeping most people (the ones who don't need rely on Windows for some types of exclusive softwares) from switching. When I first "switched" I was a 16 year old with a lot of time to spare and I started figuring it out to an extent. Can't say the same about everyone, at least not the people that come to me asking me how to stop programs from opening on their own at startup.

    [–] Tekchip 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

    I suppose I can search the internet for you.

    QA team fired. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140806183208-12100070-why-did-microsoft-lay-off-programmatic-testers/

    A few of the big issues I could find with a real quick search. Just yesterday... https://www.techspot.com/news/99291-buggy-windows-11-update-could-slowing-down-ssds.html

    Problem since march, just now fixed, article from today. https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-manages-to-fix-windows-11-defender-local-security-authority-protection-off/

    https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-still-working-on-fix-for-high-cpu-utilization-in-windows-11-file

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/13/23553370/microsoft-start-menu-taskbar-shortcuts-windows-disappearing-it

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-snipping-tool-privacy-bug-exposes-cropped-image-content/

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23735639/microsoft-surface-pro-x-camera-not-working-error-fix

    https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23485717/microsoft-windows-11-gaming-performance-issues-fix

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/4/22763641/microsoft-windows-11-expired-certificate-snipping-tool-emoji-picker-issues

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22407995/microsoft-windows-apps-rearranging-sleep-resume-fix-directx-12

    https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/9/10952524/microsoft-edge-windows-10-update-inprivate-fix

    https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/6/17944966/microsoft-windows-10-october-2018-update-documents-deleted-issues-windows-update-paused

    MS breaking other peoples software, chrome in this case https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/malwarebytes-issues-fix-for-chrome-broken-by-windows-11-kb5027231/

    I mean, the problems go on and on and on. https://www.theverge.com/search?q=windows+problem&page=1

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/search/?cx=partner-pub-0920899300397823%3A3529943228&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=windows+problem

    To be entirely clear Linux isn't without problems either but your statement "It just works out of the box..." is patently false.

    The problem is that we’ve all learned to work around all the issues Windows poses. This becomes the status quo and we forget how much work and time it took to learn all these hacks and work around over time. At some point applying them all is just what you do. It’s normal now and business as usual which feels like it just works. But it doesn’t.