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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've been a computer geek since 1987. I started out on dos and spent a lot of my time in Windows, but I've used Linux as well for more than 25 years now.

This article was as useless and as stupid as I anticipated. They clearly are happy in Linux and they were not going to be happy in Windows.

I'm quite happy in both. I like both. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to both. I will definitely say that there are some things I really prefer in Linux. But in recent years, a lot of that I've gotten to incorporate over on the window side things.

I now have bash under Windows. I have the compose key under Windows thanks to a third party utility called wincompose. It's free.

It doesn't take me excessive clicks to do things. In Windows I mean.

And thanks to modern technology, not quite everything is upgraded under Linux with APK anymore.

I've had very few problems under Windows. And I've had very few problems under Linux. As far as system stability.

Use what you like. Use what you enjoy. Use what works better for you. For me, that's both.

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

While I agree with your overall sentiment, I also think that calling the article "useless and stupid" kind of ignores that the author explicitly states in the very first sentence that they can only present the perpesective of a long-time exclusive Linux user. Undoubtedly, had the author been a longtime user of both Linux and Windows, as is your case, then surely they would have had a different experience and conslusions all together.

I'm not saying the author isn't biased in favour of Linux - all I am saying is that they seem to be pretty upfront about it from the very get go. Had they pretended to supposedly be writing an objective, scientifically valid comparison, then I would concede there is an element of stupidity. But that's not the case - they're pretty transparent as to who they are and what perspective they are describing their experience from.

Tldr: arguably its more like some sort of guilty-pleasure entertainment for Linux users rather than "stupid"

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure nobody has enough money to pay me to give up my Linux...

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I ask out of respect the the devs that make our wonderful distros we love so much:

Have you donated to them and their work?

If there's not enough money to make you give it up, how much are you willing to give to keep it alive?

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I always donate. With every new release. My rule is to give an offering to the gods that make all this possible every time I do a git pull. ;-).

Especially things like mastodon and lemmy.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

Horray!

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