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I could also say the Linux desktop creators are the problem as well. It's so buggy, it makes it impossible for me to switch.
by billy99k 7mo ago
I could also say the Linux desktop creators are the problem as well. It's so buggy, it makes it impossible for me to switch.
- prmoustache 7mo agoThis doesn't make any sense as there is not a linux desktop but multiples and the major ones have been less buggy than windows for the most part of the last 20 years. Hardware support is where Linux used to struggle. Nowadays things aren't perfect but much better. Basically it means you need to figure out which hardware to buy based on available support, before making the purchase.
- pluralmonad 7mo agoI am willing to concede this might be true, but I personally have never checked Linux support before through 3 generations of desktops. Intel/Nvidia twice and then AMD/AMD.
- hparadiz 7mo agoAll of them will work. What "support". What is this nonsense. Seriously.
- happymellon 7mo agoBecause support is generally great. Until you get some Windows apologist who points out that their proprietary touchscreen that has multiple layers of DRM doesn't have Linux drivers and therefore Linux doesn't have good hardware support. You have to be careful in the same way that you can't expect to wipe an M series Mac and stick Windows on it.
- direwolf20 7mo agoApple devices have multiple layers of touchscreen DRM, but most other devices are just lacking drivers, because there are far too many devices for five unpaid interns to write drivers for all of them.
- lousken 7mo agoWhat desktop and which distro? In the past, there have been times where a bug showed up for me over the years, especially before 2018. Currently tho, Debian 13 + KDE - zero issues.
- xigoi 7mo agoWhich “the” Linux desktop? GNOME? KDE? xfce? Cinnamon? COSMIC?
- xeromal 7mo agoThis question reinforces the point IMO
- amlib 7mo agoThat linux has an awesome rich and diverse range of desktop experiences?
- subscribed 7mo agoI'd stupidly assume that having a choice and control over the experience is empowering, and watching a couple of YouTube videos titled "which Linux distribution is best for me" isn't too hard? Or is it in your opinion? If it is maybe they better stay on the "shut up and do how I say, puppet" OS.
- bdavbdav 7mo agoWho are these “creators”? Can you point to them? Is there a legal entity?
- Spooky23 7mo agoHonestly, that’s a 2016 argument. I flipped a few contact centers over to Linux desktops and had very few issues. If anything we probably spent 5x the resources getting Windows 11 certified internally. Microsoft knows it, but they don’t care about windows. When IBM started offering Macs to employees, they figured out that the support burden was very low, significantly lower than windows, even with users having years of windows experience. Intune was supposed to be the answer to that, making Windows management MDM like. But for their most entrenched enterprise customers, they can’t really switch without co-managing with Configuration Manager. Most of the people behind that product are laid off or otherwise attrited, as there’s no path to a subscription service.
- hparadiz 7mo ago> I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas
- nik282000 7mo agoDebian, Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora have had a bug free desktop experience for years. If you stick to the default repositories and use last year's hardware everything just works.