Unpopular Opinion

C'mon man, if you're gonna troll at least put some effort in

you can just go to microsoft forums

Now I KNOW you're a troll.

free if you know where to look

are you suggesting a benefit of windows is you can “illegally” get a copy and install it? instead of actually free linux distro?

'extremely stable and never crashes'

Wow, ragebait much? LOL!

Laughs in Penguin accent 😂🤣🐧

Anywhere but lemmy, this wouldn't be unpopular ;)

I don't agree with the opinion, having recently been forced to do shit on Windows 11 and ran into so many issues because of microsoft that it was infuriating. Since Microsoft insists on baking in their bullshit and making it hassle to navigate around, I say that that is also a flaw in windows.

But I used to mostly like windows. Win7 in particular fit my needs as well or better at the time than mu current distro of choice does now.

I will add the caveat that before proton, that was less true because gaming sucked on linux for me before proton happened. But almost everything else was better, so I sucked it up for daily driving and only used win7 for gaming and music management/listening.

Now, I only use my win7 install for musicbee. I mean, I do use it for other things while it's booted up, but I dunno if solitaire is a relevant use for this discussion lol.

I'll also say that, depending on distro, linux can be a pain in the ass to some degree or another, even after the learning curve is handled. Not worse than windows, just in slightly different ways (wifi issues in particular can be a bitch to handle)

Edit: Personalized my comment a bit more so it reflected some of my personal experiences. As I kneejerk reactioned hard initially.

ROFL This reads like rage bait and delusion to be perfectly honest...As most of this post is at least true for Windows 10, but not 11 (which is a vibe coded and LLM stuffed nightmare). I always found that tweaking the registry was something to do only when there was no other choice, as it could cause more harm than good at times. Local Policy is a step up from that on Pro Version, enjoyed tweaking my system that way. Microsoft Forums is a community, and AI is a gassed up LLM (which can hallucinate and tell you lies while sounding correct).

This makes me chuckle and snort, while enjoying openSUSE Tumbleweed without worry!

Using Windows means giving my data for pedophiles to monetiza so no, thanks.

Linux runs all apps for Linux and many apps for windows. Windows doesn't run any Linux apps.

KDE has a beautiful interface that both lets you customize damn near everything and doesn't push ads in the OS.

Linux doesn't need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it's inherently more secure and a smaller attack vector.

Linux is free, and your point about pirating Windows is dumb AF. It's $120 for the base version legally.

Linux runs almost every game that doesn't have kernel level anti cheat malware with proton.

Linux supports more hardware than MS by far. Try running a 10 year old CPU on windows 11. Nvidia isn't ideal on Linux, but it also works and updates are built in with kernel updates. Bonus, you can cherry pick updates if desired.

The Arch wiki is better than anything MS has to offer in regards to documentation and there are forums everywhere for help, with real people, not copilot generated slop. Each major distro, which means you have options, also has well developed forums and support.

As mentioned, Linux also has backwards compatibility, but better.

I run Arch and also never crash, and that's one of the most "unstable" distros out there. Something like Debian makes Windows look like a beta project.

Your arguments sound like they are from someone that's never used Linux, only read aged forum posts, and has to rely on piracy as positive note.

Extra bonuses for Linux is that it's faster by almost every metric, a fraction of the size and resource consumption, actually free, not shoving AI shit into it, truly customizable at every level, and doesn't steal all of your private information.

Extremely stable and never crashes

I mean, sure... If you just let it sit there doing nothing. 🤷‍♂️

Windows is bloat ware with a corporate coat of paint, older games will require a bit of work to get working so also fits backwards compatibility issues and "extremely stable and never crashes"? BSOD is only a Windows exclusive and Windows doesn't need community support because why would anyone have fun helping a multi billion dollar company, while Linux can be work and a hobby.

An actually unpopular opinion? gasp

Windows is quite slower than Mint or OpenSUSE. The startup time is slow, like really sloooow. I had to run through hoops to get auto updates disabled. I can't customize powershell as much as I can configure Bash.

it has pretty ui

So great of a ui that I can't change anything beyond colours. I atleast had a windows classic theme till win7.

I really, really, really love windows. Especially the huge ones in my office that I get to look out of while happily using my Linux computer. Just, love, those, windows!

*golf clap*

*everything crashes

Another totally real account being created just to post this? Got to love fake engagement farming.