I recently had to use windows for stuff and after a year of using Linux, it made me realise how janky windows is in comparison. Even on a top spec pc unminimized (or resized) windows flash white before their contents appear. Super-d to minimize/maximize doesn’t bring all windows back up or in the same order. And these are greatly amplified when the computer isn’t that powerful, so much so that you can see individual regions of some programs render one by one. In addition, moving the kde connect window sometimes made the screen stutter and flicker (???) and at some point my mouse stopped working (touchpad was fine), I tried reinstalling drivers and stuff but ultimately I had to reboot for it to work again.

Brings back memories of my laptop loudly booting up in the middle of the night for no apparent cause or reason and mouse cursor going invisible upon random boots that made me save a file in the middle of the desktop about how to fix it.

It’s incredible how Linux is both free and a more stable experience, even as a nvidia+wayland user.

  • Hestia@lemmy.world
    10·
    10 months ago

    I game with friends online, so I’ve always had windows on a second drive. Compatibility has gotten so good though that it’s actually kinda rare that I even need to boot windows anymore. It’s better than ever to be a gamer on Linux.

  • sturlabragason@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    Yeah I’ve been using Gnome exclusively for about 3 years. Every time I help someone with their Windows desktop I’m always as surprised with the performance and general bad UX. Why is something hidden behind a 3rd hidden menu? Billions are being paid in licensing for this.

    Shame.

  • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    I love that with Linux and somewhat older/underpowered computers, I can always find some software that makes it work. Things might take longer and I might have to budget myself with browser tabs a bit, but it is doable.

  • Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    Yeah it is way to often we forget how good we have it on GNU/Linux. I also had to work a lot with the two proprietary OSes a lot during the past year or so at work where our software is cross-platform so I had to test it everywhere. Oh and boy the closed proprietary options are even worse then I remember them from 5+ years ago. So dumbed down so much spyware. One is also very bloated and don’t get me started how hard it is to properly support them when programming and it is so hard to debug when something goes wrong. Just terrible experience for things I take for granted while using GNU/Linux every day.

    So yeah thanks to all people developing libre and opensource software and GNU/Linux especially, just love it how it gives me the choice of which desktop to use, or if I do not want to use GUI desktop at all, thanks for keeping everything deep down event to the center of the kernel accessible, and just hidden behind a very nice GUI desktop, thanks for being so open it is much easier to see things when they go wrong and see where it went wrong and is so much easier to debug. Thanks for keeping and strengthening our 4 essential freedoms and for actually caring about our privacy instead of just bullshiting and talking like you care. And thank you for not adding more stupid corporate bloat into your OS and apps. You are the real unsung heroes of the digital world, unlike this GAFAM/BigTech exploitative mafia making their products ever more closed and shitty in general just to exploit you more.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    After well over a decade since I had to regularly use Windows, I can’t last 5 minutes before I’m in a lathered up rage.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Yes indeed. I used to work in IT but due to a change in my life I’m doing something else now. Which means I only use Linux at home and only see Windows when I need to print. I keep Win10 in a VM, disconnected from the net, just to print. Which is rare.

    But I remember well how crap Windows is, even on good hardware. The issues I had with Surface laptops at work was painful. I stopped ordering those for management because I’m the one who had to fix the issue they inevitably had. And that’s MS’ own hardware.

    Even powerful graphics orientated HP machines would need regular rebooting to fix freezing issues on Win10.

    Meanwhile the few Win7 and XP machines we had still in use, ran just fine, even though the hardware was 10+ years old …

    I’m on Linux Mint Debian Edition on a Mac Mini and it runs flawlessly.

    Linux is really great, considering it’s free of charge, and I wouldn’t ever voluntarily run Windows again.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    10 months ago

    It’s incredible how Linux is both free and a more stable experience, even as a nvidia+wayland user.

    Yes, I agree with you generally speaking until… I’ve to use MS Office and the alternatives aren’t up to it when it comes to collaboration with other MS Office users. Same goes for Adobe and Autodesk.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
      6·
      10 months ago

      Been using OnlyOffice for years in multiple companies, haven’t had any problems. Word, Excel, PowerPoint presentations, no issues at all collaborating with other MS Office users.

      And if you must have 100% MS apps, just use the browser-based apps. My current company is all Microsoft, I just do everything through the browser on my Debian 12 system. Teams, Email, SharePoint, Onedrive, etc. No issues whatsoever.

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        And if you must have 100% MS apps, just use the browser-based apps.

        True, but that doesn’t work for everyone as online MS Office has limitations.

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      This totally. Every oss office suite I’ve tried is either incompatible, glitchy or has weird workflow for some things. But ms office is available on the web for free so it doesn’t bother me

      • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        But ms office is available on the web for free so it doesn’t bother me

        True, but that doesn’t work for everyone as online MS Office has limitations.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      WPS Office isn’t FOSS, but I’ve never had any sort of compatibility issues with what it produces. And it’s UI is way better than LO or Only.

  • luves2spooge@lemmy.world
    24·
    10 months ago

    Let’s not pretend Linux isn’t without its own jank. Currently broken on my install

    • importing open vpn certificates
    • USB file transfers
    • after monitors time out and go to sleep resolution, refresh rate and screen positioning resets
    • sometimes fails to go to sleep
    • have to change /proc/acpi/wakeup after every boot or the nvme ssd immediately wakes the system up from sleep
    • Chrome can’t update

    I know I’ll get down voted for saying this because lemmy is a Linux circlejerk. But if we want Linux to proliferate we can’t keep ignoring its problems. And sure, if I could be bothered I could probably fix most of these things with enough time. But I don’t want to spend my limited free time fixing stuff that really should just work out of the box

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      10 months ago

      Mate, your gonna get downvoted because these absolutely aren’t universal problems lol. Chrome can’t update? USB file transfers are broken? Ssd waking a system? These are not problems I’ve experienced in years of Linux distros across a rainbow of hardware…

      • luves2spooge@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        Ssd wake is a bios issue. Monitor issue has happened on every distro I’ve tried. Vpn cert import is a distro issue as its been fine in other distros. Idk what’s going on with chrome. It’s not bothered me enough to look into yet. When I do have to use windows there are non of these issues.