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    Image text: "Fact: 90% of Linux users switch back to windows right before all their problems are about to be fixed"

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    [–] Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    Ok so I am probably gonna curse in the Linux church but please enlighten me

    I have one laptop with windows 10 for the simple stuff: internet, movie, ms office. It functions perfectly. Yes it needs a reboot sometimes. I don't understand what people are saying about how terrible ms in regard for easy users.

    I mean I get it that it probably using my data, which would be actually enough to change.

    However: all these post about how easy it is to fix stuff in Linux (and thus saying it is not working properly)... Keeps me in ms.

    What are you guys doing that needs so much tinkering that needs to be fixed constantly?

    [–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    A lot of the people who are drawn to Linux want to be able to tinker with things. For your use case you would probably be perfectly happy with installing Ubuntu, getting the apps you need, then not messing with it.

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    [–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    I don't really have to fix anything in Linux, I do a lot of advanced things though (I'm a software dev) where I will manually change executables' paths, swap them out with symlinks, use custom newer GCC compilers, etc, but even with all of that I still rarely ever have to "fix" anything. I have been waiting, prepared, for when this Ubuntu install craps out so I can finally wipe it out and switch to Arch for this PC.. but it still keeps going and going without a hiccup.

    I'm not sure what people are referring to that they have to fix all the time, but no two people have the same experience overall obviously, and there are so many variations of a linux system. like take 10 different desktop environments or window managers or different pieces of software or hardware and every permutation is going to have either more problems, or less problems.

    Ultimately I would recommend anybody just giving all of the distros and DE/WMs a try. A good try, give it a few weeks and see how each of them feel, you're not going to know what you've been missing, or if anything ever has bugs or quirks at all period, until you do.

    [–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

    You don't need to tinker so much Linux if you are just gonna use it for Internet and Movie stuff. We tinker with it so much because we want to make our desktop the way we want it

    [–] Moorshou@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

    Honestly? I fixed windows as much as i do linux

    I just web surf and play video games on my machines, I had to open terminal once to install printer drivers, the printers a MFC-490CW otherwise, nothing needed to be fixed

    It's just nice to HAVE the terminal, lets me go under the hood of my computer if need be.

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    [–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What did this say before the edit?

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    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

    This is so true recently because recently developements in linux OSes are too fast

    [–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

    ill never get sick of this meme format lol so funny

    [–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

    All of the problems so far

    [–] bastion@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

    Problems?

    [–] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I need to dual boot Windows for my stupid Xbox games and stupid Office that don't run in Wine. 😭

    [–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I know you probably mean newer Xbox games, but check out xemu if you like retro titles.

    [–] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    Steam and Lutris are amazing 😎

    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    So you just like MS Office?

    [–] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I actually do but I'm slowly getting used to LibreOffice πŸ™‚

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    [–] Tixanou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Most people that I've seen go back to Windows are people who tried something like Fedora as their first distro for some reason, and then left because they found it too complicated. Instead of going for an easier one like Mint

    [–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

    That is indeed strange, I started with Fedora for some reason and I still use Fedora. Great distro tbh, my only complaint is that more things are .deb instead of .rpm, but .rpm is common enough.

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

    That is the quirk of being splintered in so many different distros, and all the users recommending a different one.

    It is by far the biggest reason why Linux hasn't gone mainstream.

    New users are having to deep dive into all the different possibilities just to find the one that does what they want, before they can even start the process of installation.

    Compare that to Windows: just install the latest one

    Or Mac: you are forced to use the latest one.

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