Yeah, Linux is not for me anymore lol. As much as Windows' userland is completely outranked by KDE, it's just death by a thousand cuts for anything actually productive.
I genuinely wonder what is going on for people who are moving to Linux from Windows due to some technical issue, because Linux has been issue after issue for me while Windows has been fine.
@Flaky For me, my main desktop can't run Windows 10 anymore. It takes more than ten minutes to boot, randomly downloads 40GB. of update data (and doesn't allow it to be deleted after updates complete), & occasionally breaks completely & requires a complete reinstall. I tried an Ubuntu based Linux distro & it was very nice with comparatively very few issues. SSH, SFTP, an actually good shell that made me want to use it instead of dread it, & very easy package management were too convenient to give up later. I haven't had many issues with Ubuntu & issues I usually have aren't its fault, just a bug in some software I use, which is usually fixed quickly after someone files an issue for it.
Maybe if you get issues or not & what they are depends on how you use it or what your hardware is like. I used both Windows & Ubuntu as a regular user would.
@Flaky I can see Linux based stuff having issues if your hardware isn't well supported or if the software you like isn't packaged for it. People with new enough hardware might be able to handle switching to Windows so they don't have hardware support issues & can use some software that they couldn't use with other operating systems. For me it was the opposite; Windows was making the computer overheat, killing the hard drive, & breaking randomly & unpredictably with cryptic error messages, but Ubuntu didn't abuse the hardware & actually explained what happened when there was some kind of error so that I could fix it.
It also saves me $200 that I would have to spend on a Windows license for my new computers that I got later.
@jackemled I get it if you moved because of Windows 10's EOL, that's completely valid. For me, my tower and my setup works best with Windows 11 - I used to have hardware issues with Linux but I think it got fixed with a firmware update. A lot of my issues now are from software and having to work around things I really shouldn't, and the alternatives simply don't, and can't, fill the gap. I've tried WINE (which, while technically works, is not as good as native Windows and even broke my setup after an update), VMs, even using my laptop, but at that point I'm stressing myself out for no reason.
I think after being medicated for ADHD my tolerance for the Linux desktop's quirks and workarounds has basically dwindled. It's been much easier for me to bend Windows to my will to get it friendly for the rest of my ADHD than to deal with missing software on the Linux side.
@jackemled With Apple controlling the CPU now, you're basically getting an immensely great value for performance compared to the Windows side.
And yeah, Liquid Glass is basically Apple's Vista-era Aero lol. I actually love the concept (skeuomorphism, my beloved) but Apple really needed to give it time to cook.
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