Andrew CunninghamJul 9, 2024
This whole thread is worth a read, this is why I cannot really indulge “why are you not recommending Linux??” people commenting on Ars articles even as Windows 11 slowly deteriorates. Especially when you’re just plunking it down on Any Old Laptop, you too will run into a long list of quality-of-life things like this.
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Show threadStarkRGJul 9, 2024
@andrew_writes A lot of those issues seem to be specific to gnome which I'm not a fan of. That said, I am a fan of KDE and have my own list of complaints about it. Then again, my complaints about Windows is much, much longer...
Show threadAndrew Cunningham
@StarkRG my experience with win11 even at this late date is once you go through and turn *everything* off it’s still fundamentally solid, I like the win11-era design mostly, it’s happy to run on just about anything (even “unsupported” stuff). But the regular out-of-box experience is, yes, a nightmare.
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Show threadStarkRGJul 10, 2024

@andrew_writes Windows 7 was the last version of Windows I actually wasn't tempted to replace until I ran across issues with a game.

At the time (it's long since been fixed) the 64-bit windows version of Kerbal Space Program was broken and the 32-bit version could only allocate a bit over 3 GB of RAM, limiting how many mods I could play with. The 64-bit Linux version, though, worked almost flawlessly (to this day, it still needs a community-developed plug-in to use controllers, though).