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Windows is not free as in freedom (lemmy.world)
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Fuck Micro$oft

It's time to switch to Linux! Because it's free as in freedom.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago

I've had far more problems on Windows than Linux. For example:

  • SOs computer marked the GPU driver as disabled?? WTF? I thought her monitor died...
  • SO's computer audio was messed up, and it took me an hour of fiddling to get it working (probably more AMD's fault than anything)
  • had to manually download drivers for a variety of stuff...

And this is just since I upgraded my SO's PC a couple years ago.

Here's a similar process for my Linux PC:

  • all HW recognized OOTB - I ended up swapping my WiFi card to something better, and it worked OOTB

That's it, everything just works. I sometimes need to fiddle w/ audio settings, but that's because I have three audio outputs (headphones, and both monitors), and it understandably gets confused, but switching takes like 10s. That's it. Oh, and I run openSUSE Tumbleweed, a rolling-release OS, and I've had fewer problems in the 5-ish years I've used it (and upgraded HW in between) than my SO has w/ Windows.

So yeah, don't know what to tell ya, Linux has pissed me off way less than Windows.