Post #2601903

2026-03-27 21:14 UTC

Im always surprised how different the windows expirience seems to be for many people or do they ignore all the searching for drivers, editing registry entries, running sketchy bats, trying compatibility modes until something works, random blue screens, shutdowns that are reboots.

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@Kichae@lemmy.ca 2026-03-27 21:30

Well, most of us know how to deal with all of those, and the vast majority of them haven’t been an issue for the average user for, like, decades now. No one’s fucking with compatubility mode post, like, 2004. Meanwhile, most of the help you get when trying to solve issues on Linux are command line commands that are not explained by the helper and which we have no idea what they actually do. The fight I had just to get my printer to work. The fight I’m still having to get my audio interface to work consistently.

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@BandanaBug@piefed.social 2026-03-27 21:48

Totally agree with Kichae. Adding to that I’d argue it’s easier for windows since more people use it so there’s more resources. Also, Windows is just a single way of doing things. There’s a difference between distros so a fix for Ubuntu might not work for Arch. Of course windows has it’s (huge) flaws and not everything works perfectly. There’s a reason I switched. But Linux in my experience breaks in a bigger way in my personal experience.

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@Hawke@lemmy.world 2026-03-27 23:49

What do you mean? I hear that “SFC /SCANNOW” fixes everything!

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