caffeinade said:
Zkuq said:
I don't like that a company (e.g. Microsoft) can dictate so much about what happens on my computer. With Windows 10, it's pretty obvious not everything Microsoft does is good for consumers. I'd say that's the main issue. The other is that for my use, Windows has some serious problems. For example, I'd like to automate a lot of tedious stuff, but doing it is pretty difficult in Windows. In Linux, it's usually very easy if you have any idea about what you're doing. One example is updates, which are familiar to pretty much every computer user. In Windows, more often than not you have to restart the computer after updating the OS. In Linux, there's no need for it almost ever, and you don't even have to closer the programs you're currently using even if they're being updated! (Mind you, the update gets applied only after restarting the program, but still - no need to close the program while the update is being installed.) Considering the slowness of updating Windows, that alone can be a big thing.
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Not to mention modularity.
GNOME 3 (my current desktop) allows me to pin any window I like to the top of the display stack.
So I can have a video or terminal open on top of a web browser, something I don't think you can do on Windows (and if you can you have to jump through a lot of hoops).
My video or terminal can be doing its thing whilst I click on / use my browser (or other app), this allows me a much greater degree of productivity, when working in my Linux environment.
Not to mention all the other neat power user stuff that you can only do on Linux and co.
Oh and installing software (when it is supported) is super easy.
On Debian and its permutations, all I need to do is type into the terminal:
#apt install mpv
To install my video player of choice,
No need to use a web browser, no (reasonable) need to worry about viruses.
And I understand I am replying to the wrong post, but, meh.
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pleny of free apps provide the same pinning in windows or you can just snap/tile apps, no hoops or complexity. What other power stuff can you only do on linux? As a former linux instructor I can't think of any significant ones? The repositories are perhaps the only benefit, but that is so minimal that it hardly matters and even then all that can be done in powershell for most stuff anyway.
