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Jonnax · on April 19, 2020

Do you honestly believe that Windows update works like that? Windows 10 came out in 2015. And has had twice yearly updates since then.

Perhaps then I should compare Ubuntu 14.04 to Windows 10 today.

Really? What GPU? Free or non free driver? Wayland or Xorg? It ain't simple.

Why didn't I mention office suites? Because they're not really that demanding. Text editors aren't a high bar.

If the latest version of Office lags on your PC that's capable of running 4k60 video then there's something wrong with your PC.

But of course I use it on my work laptop. On my personal PC, Google docs does everything I need.

29athrowaway · on April 19, 2020

> Really? What GPU? Free or non free driver? Wayland or Xorg? It ain't simple.

It is simple. Just use a mainstream distro, and use the default driver and the default display server. And that's it. That's what I use.

I really hate when people trash talk Linux as some masochistic experience full of rough edges that requires 1000 hours of work to tune. It is not.

On the other hand, with Windows: OEMs preinstall Windows in your computer. But that's not the only thing they install. They add unnecessary bloatware, and sometimes, even backdoors. If you decide to install it yourself, you have to download drivers. And luckily one of those drivers is not the Network card one.

Jonnax · on April 20, 2020

Okay:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-n...

Looks like the open source Nvidia driver is horrible trash.

And seems like the most supported cards are the 600/700 series which are very old.

Also you're talking about installing a different OS what does bloatware have to do with it?

They may as well reinstall their OS fresh.

And don't be intentionally misleading. You're not going to get a computer that doesn't have support for networking out the box today on windows.

I clearly do remember having that issue on Linux where my WiFi card would require the download of a firmware binary to be able to run.

Linux desktop environments have a lot of rough edges. That's because the majority of people that use Linux use it headless.

Also in terms of functionality. I would only say KDE has near parity of features to windows as a DE.