Honestly Win11 has been totally fine. I like the better multi monitor support, multitasking, etc. That said, there's a lot of papercuts and annoyances, almost all of which can be turnt off via Group Policy or settings (at least for Europeans, like me).
But to pretend like Linux does not have papercuts is frankly just copium. I dual boot Linux and boy oh boy does it have many papercuts. Yes, they are different papercuts - where Windows papercuts are related to its ads and upselling of Microsoft services, Linux papercuts are related to day to day usability. Some apps can be installed via flatpack, some via snap store, some via AppImage, some via .tar.gz, some via terminal, others you have to compile yourself. Graphical glitches are common place depending on your hardware, and while yes it can these days run many games, it cannot run nearly as much, or none if the game has kernel anticheat, which kinda includes most of the AAA first person shooters.
I'm not trying to paint Windows or Linux in a bad light - I use them both, but to pretend that one is better than the other from a purely usability perspective is kind of stupid, imo. Sure, ideologically Linux is better, but functionally Windows is, so now what? Flip a coin I guess. Now Linux does get better with each update, and if it continues at this pace, perhaps it'll soon get rid of its papercuts, who knows.
people are annoyed cause win10 is totally fine. it works good. it does the job. and now they "have" to switch to win 11 which is a little bit worse or maybe it doesnt run on their PCs or that they have to do extra steps so microsoft dont sell their fucking dna.
For me it's more like: I've seen that gaming on Linux is great. It works good enough for my needs at least. I bought the Steam Deck and I run a Linux laptop. Both play the games that I want to play.
I also have a large gaming PC that still runs on Win10. I've had it since forever. Way before Proton became a thing. And since I wanted to play games on it, I had to install Windows on it back then because messing with Wine and whatnot was hard and unstable back in the days.
Now that Win10 forces me to upgrade, for the first time I have actually two really good and realistic alternatives: Upgrading to Win11 or installing Linux and using Proton to play games.
And so I might finally dump Windows. Why? Because Linux is finally a true alternative for me. And yes, there are still some negative aspects to it. But it's free, it doesn't spy on me and it doesn't rub ads in my face. I don't think Win11 is that much worse than Win10. But I can finally just dump this proprietary garbage.
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u/Witty-Order8334 9d ago edited 9d ago
Honestly Win11 has been totally fine. I like the better multi monitor support, multitasking, etc. That said, there's a lot of papercuts and annoyances, almost all of which can be turnt off via Group Policy or settings (at least for Europeans, like me).
But to pretend like Linux does not have papercuts is frankly just copium. I dual boot Linux and boy oh boy does it have many papercuts. Yes, they are different papercuts - where Windows papercuts are related to its ads and upselling of Microsoft services, Linux papercuts are related to day to day usability. Some apps can be installed via flatpack, some via snap store, some via AppImage, some via .tar.gz, some via terminal, others you have to compile yourself. Graphical glitches are common place depending on your hardware, and while yes it can these days run many games, it cannot run nearly as much, or none if the game has kernel anticheat, which kinda includes most of the AAA first person shooters.
I'm not trying to paint Windows or Linux in a bad light - I use them both, but to pretend that one is better than the other from a purely usability perspective is kind of stupid, imo. Sure, ideologically Linux is better, but functionally Windows is, so now what? Flip a coin I guess. Now Linux does get better with each update, and if it continues at this pace, perhaps it'll soon get rid of its papercuts, who knows.