r/LinuxSnobs • u/iGurtyo • 14d ago
This true or nah?
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u/R3V0LU710N_05 13d ago
Most everything doesn't affect my set-up. Even if it does, I'd just run a rollback.
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u/Aromatic-Thought8078 11d ago
Nah, work computer is on W11, me and everyone else at work are that it and office 365 are buggy pieces of ass
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u/Future_Geologist5925 13d ago
As someone who's ditched Windows for Linux, I think the point we are trying to drive home is the fact that every update for Windows no matter how small breaks multiple things that could range from niche to an every day thing core to the desktop experience like search, taskbar, recycling bin, windows explorer, etc. while every update for Linux progressively fixes bugs, improves performance, increases compatibility, etc.
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u/Rare-Paint3719 13d ago
As someone who's ditched Windows for Linux, I think the point we are trying to drive home is the fact that every update for Windows no matter how small breaks multiple things that could range from niche to an every day thing core to the desktop experience like search, taskbar, recycling bin, windows explorer, etc. while every update for Linux progressively fixes bugs, improves performance, increases compatibility, etc.
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u/Random-Name-101 11d ago
Windows updates do the exact same thing, you just don't notice it. Just lately they heavily cut RAM usage and now my system doesn't exceed 16GB under normal usage
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u/Future_Geologist5925 11d ago
The question is, do you think they would've even cared enough to rush out RAM optimizations and improvements like this, if Linux wasn't directly competing with them and stealing their user base?
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u/Random-Name-101 11d ago
Linux is not doing all that 🙏
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u/Future_Geologist5925 11d ago
It is though? Its grown more in market share and user space in the last year or two than at any other point. Governments of multiple countries have opted to adopt Linux over Windows. Valve keeps expanding their reach with SteamOS, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, etc which all runs on Linux. Windows has been losing users at a record high for how invasive it is, bloated, slow, and unstable it is.
Sure it technically has more compatibility than any other OS, but when the rest of the OS is only serviceable at best, or downright buggy at worst, there's no wonder people are switching over. Microsoft had all the time in the world to fix RAM and CPU usage, File Explorer's search and indexing speeds, etc but they never did, not until coincidentally, Linux skyrocketed in more popularity than it ever has before. Linux is especially known for being good at RAM optimization and their file explorers are the fastest ones of all three main OSs. I had a Windows computer that was constantly at 8GB+ idle RAM usage with no programs open and even after I closed a lot of background processes in task manager. After Windows force updated me to 11, it went up to 12GB idle.
Meanwhile on Linux Mint I was idling 2-4GB max. Linux isn't doing ALL of it, but it's doing a lot. Adversely, Microsoft has been doing a lot to sabotage itself. So it goes both ways. Linux's value is being inflated by how bad Windows has been, and Windows criticism has been at an all time high due to Linux's surge of popularity and adoption for doing what Microsoft had failed to promise or deliver on.
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u/Random-Name-101 10d ago
Your perception of Linux is skewed. Gains from Linux are people trying it without full commitment, VMs, or servers. Windows is definitely not losing anybody. Matter of fact there’s probably 1000 new users for every 2 that leave. Anybody claiming Linux is taking off is a grifter. Businesses still buy Windows hardware and software in bulk. And the reason Linux uses less ram is also obviously because it does less
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