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Windows will let european users uninstall many system components such as Bing or Edge soon
(blogs.windows.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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You can use Linux for free which has never been shittified.
How quickly they forget. Canonical added Amazon ads to Ubuntu 10 years ago. They walked it back after huge backlash, but don’t believe that any corporate-backed Linux is immune to “shittifying”.
The good thing about that is that you have the choice to avoid Ubuntu and still retain 100% functionality (at least as a private user), but there's only a small handful of Windows versions with extremely minor differences.
There are plenty of community backed distros to install instead.
Linux distributions and/or components have been, and will be, shittified repeatedly. Not as badly as commercial operating systems, but pretty bad anyway.
Because it has never been good enough for the average terminal-averse user to begin with.
You don't need that in todays world. Otherwise the Steam Deck would have been dead on arrival
Counter-point, on the Steam Deck/ SteamOS almost anything involving getting past the one app shell (Steam) or installing from a store (flathub) requires terminal and often does not survive system updates. It honestly sounds like Windows 8 typing it out.
There are plenty of distros which can be operated entirely through graphical user interfaces. Ubuntu, for example.
You have not seen a Linux in what, 20 years now?
I love Linux, but I'll admit what you say has some credence.
Linux has a lot of polish now. Most big distros are going to have an easy to use GUI installer, and there are several mature very usable desktop environments.
But, for example, if a new user has an nvidia card it's probably going to be a poor experience for them and they won't understand why or how to fix it. So there's shortcomings there. I blame nvidia for this specific issue, but your average user probably doesn't care about that. They just want their video card to work well.
It is definitely getting better. I've been running the same Arch installation with KDE for the last 5 years at work. Surprisingly stable and had little to no issues.
Still, the issues I did have required a basic understanding of what a package manager is, what does sudo do, and other general linux knowledge.
The results difference between a newbie googling "wifi doesnt work" and an experienced user googling "networkmanager service logs showing error XY" is just too great.