You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went
2026-07-10 01:03 UTC
Replies (15)
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@Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 01:23
I’m not surprised that laptop had issues. It’s purpose built and likely has sub 1% usage across the windows install worldwide.
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@AppleMango@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 02:25
When people comment about having issues with Linux, this is what that should be compared with. Or not, since linux distros ideally shouldn’t be bound to windows. (but realistically they are)
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@rossman@lemmy.zip 2026-07-10 03:43
As a Windows user that was an interesting read. For some reason I thought Windows was catering to Americans whilst Linux was being the international all rounder.
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@OwOarchist@pawb.social 2026-07-10 05:03
Windows 11 also has a combined emoji/symbol picker now (Super + .) Me: “Huh, that’s neat. I wonder if KDE has anything like that.” Me: Tries pushing (Super + .) KDE: instantly pops up an emoji selector 🖥️ Well, I guess I learned something from reading this, so it was somewhat worthwhile.
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@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-10 07:09
$5000 isn’t enough money to go through that hell.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-07-10 08:39
You can also disable Modern Standby […] (?), but this is a whole ordeal and clearly not something Microsoft wants you to do. What, adding one registry key? That’s like adding one option in a .cfg on linux, if we are fair.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-07-10 08:54
I don’t count a decades-old cumbersome wizard-style interface with countless steps to go through just to unpack a compressed file to be even remotely acceptable in 2026. Dolphin and Nautilus handle compressed files entirely transparently and much faster than Explorer does, and once you’re used to that, going back to ’90s style compressed file management almost feels insulting. My dad has trouble differentiating between webapp and software. You think handling a archive as a directory is a smart idea there? Dialogue or right-click menu is fine, which 7-zip adds. Thing is a file, should be handled as a file (launches something).
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-07-10 09:32
Tray icons […] each seems to operate and behave a little differently than the other. Some open their main window when you click on them once, some when you click on them twice, some open a menu, some only respond by opening a menu when you left-click on them instead. To be fair, that’s also a issue on Linux. xfce4-clipman-plugin: left-click: custom menu with clipboard history right-click: custom menu scroll-click: nothing qBittorent: left-click: custom menu with "show interface" right-click: widget menu scroll-click: toggle minimize Steam: left-click: custom menu right-click: widget menu scroll-click: nothing
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@thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 14:05
That’s called a job buddy. There’s no way I’d be using windows otherwise.
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@fubarx@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 16:38
I have to regularly jump between Mac, Linux, and Windows. On Mac and Linux it’s easy to make same keystroke shortcuts work, eveninside apps. On Windows, total crapshoot. And now, if on a newer machine, if you hit the wrong button (Copilot) because of muscle memory, you get the damn AI jump in your face.
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@CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2026-07-10 17:43
One of the strangest phenomena that I’ve encountered when occasionally using Windows is that sometimes there’s a problem that’s so stupid you can’t smart your way out of it. As an example: when trying out Windows 11, I made a restore point after a fresh install so that if I fucked something up I could roll back to a clean install. I then fucked something up and thought “no worries, just roll it back.” I then discovered that Windows only keeps one restore point, and manages it automatically by itself, meaning that when I fucked up, it decided to take the state of the machine immediately after I broke it and overwrite the clean restore point with the broken one and at no point asked or informed me that that’s what it was doing. Like how do you even begin to deal with an issue like that? The only solution I know of is to pre-assume that everything actually made by Microsoft will behave in an idiotic way sooner or later, and to replace as much of it as you can with third-party solutions as quickly as possible immediately after a fresh install, but anyone new to Windows/not a tech person has absolutely no way of knowing this.
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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2026-07-11 03:52
Incidentally, I must also be paid to use Windows. I’ll gladly wait for the Node.js start menu to render on company time 👍
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@little_tuptup@lemmy.ml 2026-07-13 16:19
only read the title. either your title is fucking stupid or fucking dumb. Windows controls over 60% of the end user PC market share. so you had to be paid to be a normal fucking user? it’s nearly equivalent to setting up a GoFundMe for a bullshit cause I wish you were charged for writing this article
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@dfgxx@lemmy.zip 2026-07-14 13:20
Now try MacOS, better than windows in my opinion but still feels like you can’t do things you can with Linux
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@Spore@lemmy.ml 2026-07-18 11:46
Lol it reads like a uno reverse card against the Linux trial articles in recent years: converting my Linux gaming PC to Windows just to play the same games seemed silly As far as I can tell the article comes from real Windows experience though.