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This post is clearly low effort flamebait, but I'm bored so let's go point by point, shall we?
Only if you grew up using Windows. People who came up on Macs have a hard time adjusting to Windows but generally find Linux (especially with GNOME) easier. This point is purely relative to one's previous experiences.
You'll need to define "break". Intentional or accidental? On the desktop, or deeper levels of the OS? This is so intentionally vague of a comment that it's clearly designed to be flamebait.
All Windows apps and games support Windows natively. Linux can run most Windows apps and games via Wine, in addition to all Linux-targeted apps.
Hardware acceleration in browsers also works fine on Linux on all three major GPU platforms. Was this an intentionally false statement or just ignorance?
No driver is perfect. NVIDIA drivers on both Windows and Linux can be buggy. Not every application on either platform works perfectly on NVIDIA drivers. With that said, NVIDIA drivers have come a long way on Linux especially lately since Linux is the desired platform for "AI" companies to run their models.
Let's assume you're talking about Windows 3.x from the 90s all the way to current Windows 11. With that assumption, this is demonstrably false. There are devices from the 90s and early to mid 2000s that don't have drivers for Windows 8 and up. While Windows does have better backwards compatibility than Linux overall, your absolute statement is false.
A near monopoly is not the positive selling point you pretend to think it is. Just because nearly everyone is forced to interact with Windows due to work and school does not automatically make it better.
This sentence is grammatical garbage and makes absolutely no sense. I think you're trying to say that the Windows Executable format is "real" and Linux executable files aren't? That is literal nonsense. "Easy to give apps in it?" Okay, I'll grant you one can email a .exe file to someone and they can run it on their PC. That just means .exe files are the number one vector for viruses. Congratulations, you're infected!
All operating systems are faster with faster storage. What point is this statement trying to make?
This statement means fuck all to your point, but anyway tell that to HP, who in 2026 are still shipping base model computers with spinning hard drives.
Absolutely true. If you need those exact applications, run Windows.
I don't know about you but I'd rather not be forced to install a kernel level root kit in my PC where it can open up a wide vector for malware to take over and bad actors to take control of my computer. But you do you.
Tell that to any sysadmin who manages Windows installations for a corporation or organization and they will laugh you out of the room. PowerShell and Windows Terminal are integral parts of the OS. They aren't used that often by regular users, but install certain software and watch as the installer opens several terminal windows to run commands in the background.
Arch Linux Wiki. LinuxQuestions. The Ubuntu Wiki. StackOverflow. Fucking Reddit. Shall I go on?
Again, so broad a statement there's no way to know what exactly you're talking about here. Using "AI" to hallucinate answers to your questions like "what is a .exe file" and "oh shit how do I fix my broken NVIDIA driver"? Or running local "AI" models? For that latter task, all of the local LLMs are Linux-first and designed to run on Linux OSes. Go ahead, ask your favorite chatbot, it will confirm that. Or it will tell you that Linux doesn't exist and Bill Gates is the president of the US. They tend to hallucinate like that.
Wait, I thought you were so proud of all of the Windows troubleshooting resources? Do you need to troubleshoot it or not?
Your effort is appreciated. Just to add in a few things from my experience - in dabbling with LLMs I needed to use WSL in Windows (wonder what OS that is). I found it too slow because it's a virtual machine, so that was the final push towards putting Linux on and just running things direct. Not my first time with Linux, but this time ti stuck because Linux is that good now for new users. A few months ago I finally reclaimed the space Windows had been using, as I don't need it anymore. Another point in this journey, my Nvidia gpu worked the first boot up, no issues at all. In fact I can't say I've had any hardware issues with any computers that I've put Linux on. Windows, on the other hand... well, there was a time when Windows would work on just about anything, but the days of sticking in a 98SE CD to pull a driver that works is long gone.
Thanks, but now looking at OP's post and comment history I wish I hadn't wasted the five minutes typing all of that out. Still, fighting disinformation whether troll-based or actual ignorance is sometimes worth the effort.
And oh yeah, don't tell OP that Microsoft supports and encourages the use of Linux both on the desktop via WSL and in the cloud with Azure. OP might blow a gasket!
Funnily enough, some say that Linux has a better backward compatibility with Windows than Windows itself.
Maybe to preempt a counterargument that Linux distros are lighter, i.e. needs less resources?
I seem to recall that someone patched the Adobe installer to make it work with Wine, so I'm not sure if there's an argument to be made here.
Obvious ragebait, but I like reading these types of comments so I don't need to address them myself lol
Ha, thanks! Yeah I didn't really want to deep dive into some of those points given the obvious attempt at trolling by the OP.
I feel you on the "Linux has better Windows backward compatibility than Windows itself". I have a few music instrument related devices that Windows dropped support for after Win7, but Linux just works fine with them as if they were released this year. Same with printers; on most Linux distros thanks to CUPS driverless printing, the printer is automatically configured before you ever launch the settings app. On Windows sometimes it works but more often it just pretends to work and you have to track down the actual printer driver and application bundle from the manufacturer's website. And especially with HP printers, make sure you get (for example) driver 123x and not 123y, they are completely different and the wrong one might soft-brick your printer.