I see so many people claiming that windows is crap and that’s why they moved to Linux.

That got me thinking: I can no longer have an opinion in the matter. I haven’t used Windows at home since 2004. I used it at work until the beginning of 2019 but someone else maintained it, since then, I haven’t had the need to touch windows.

Whether good or bad, I feel I’m not as knowledgeable as I was.

Well, actually, two years ago I cleaned up and “revived” my dad’s desktop which was taking two minutes to boot and about the same time to open the first app. After installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough. However, isn’t it the main criticism about Linux? That you “need to know” to use it?

People complain about Linux drivers, but as far as I remember, it was quite common that new versions of Windows dropped old drivers and your perfectly good printer/scanner/video card/etc. became a paperweight. Is that still the case?

  • Addv4@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 day ago

    While I don’t like 11 (have to use it daily for work), my biggest gripe is it’s even harder to fix than the last couple of releases of windows before it. In XP and 7, you just adjusted settings in the control panel, and if it was a niche setting, it was in the control panel, probably a few layers deep. In 10, you had the settings app, which was fine for basic stuff, but if you went beyond the basics you were going to control panel (and yes, it coexists with a settings app). Now in 11, the settings app was expanded, but there still exists a bunch of stuff in the control panel, but it’s often not obvious where you would do something.

    • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      One specific instance I’ve had of that is our print server at work updated drivers, and so everybody needed admin permissions to update their drivers.

      Of course we pushed it through normally, but some people it just didn’t push through.

      So I had to go to those computers and then open control panel and go to printers and scanners which would bring up a different interface which would bring up a printer interface that click on the printer to bring up a different interface to bring up the printer interface so that you can finally go to the print queue so that you can find the right intersection to update the driver.

      I am so fucking glad that it was a small handful of systems, and this is a task that if I had to do it on XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, or 11 up to 23h2 would have taken me less than a minute.

      Having to constantly remind myself of the exact pathway to get to the specific interface in order to do a very basic function like updating a printer driver was fucking maddening.