Ironically, I find Windows much harder to use, but maybe that's because I'm constantly trying to stop it from doing ridiculous things like installing drivers for devices I don't own, updating in the background, and prompting me to create a le microsoft account.

The only reason I continue to use Windows 10 on my gaming computer is I've got years of regedits and gpedits invested before being introduced to Linux.

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No means yes right? I'm gonna say no means yes, have 100G of smartphone games and spyware disguised as a web browser or an AI assistant!

Oh and were gonna do it now in the middle of you compiling a big project or running a fluid simulation. Also when we're done punching your dick in we're gonna ask you to try office 365, teams, and onecloud like we did the last 50 times.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep, so on top of the regedits, I should have mentioned the need to run additional software just to get it to behave. Things like BC Uninstaller to remove the bloat and MSEdgeRedirect to force the baked-in URLs to use my default browser.

Linux is so much easier imo. For full disclosure, I'm "only" using Mint, but still -- what an improvement!

[–] euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just love how during install you can already specify what you need and dont need on linux, and even after install I end up having more programs on windows, half of which is just programs like 7zip, vlc, notepad++, wacom software, I could go on, and this all built into kde plasma

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

I wish someone had told me all this years ago! I always heard people claim that you had to be super techie to understand how to use Linux, so I stayed away until last year when someone on lemmy finally convinced me to try it on an old gaming laptop of mine -- a laptop that could barely run Windows anymore. It works just fine with Linux!