I’m curious as to what everyone’s reasons are! The Linux desktop has came quite a far ways in the last few years and is improving every day. I’d say for most people, Linux could easily replace Windows as their daily driver nowadays.

  • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Intermediate level configuration tasks which you can do with one dialog in Windows require editing shell scripts and decoding APIs designed by mathematicians in the 70’s on Linux.

    Full disclosure, I’ve used linux since high school, to the point where I am lost as shit on windows. What I’m trying to get at is that the question I’m about to ask is not supposed to be judgemental or disbelieving or anything, I’m just genuinely curious: can you please give me an example of an intermediate config task that’s significantly easier on windows than linux? I have a hard time believing such a thing exists, but that’s likely because I haven’t used windows since like the vista days

    • AlkaliMarxist@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      OK, one I encountered recently is mounting a network share on user login.

      On Windows this required going into My Computer and clicking “Map network drive” then following the prompts.

      On Linux this required; adding an entry to fstab then, because the mount needs to occur after network stack initialization but before the user attempts to access the drive, I needed to noauto the fstab entry and create a systemd service using After=network-online.target which actually performs the mount.

      • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Gotcha. Yeah, that does sound like it’s a bit easier in windows, fair enough. Still, I’ll take a plaintext config file over searching through gui menus any day of the week. But that’s just preference and what I’m used to.

    • AnarchoTankie [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      can you please give me an example of an intermediate config task that’s significantly easier on windows than linux?

      I feel like it’s the kind of thing that use to be true. I think it’s easier to edit a a text file in linux and run the restart service command in terminal than it is to wander through window’s new maximum white-space electron GUIs and hope what you’re looking for isn’t removed in windows 10 or doesn’t get reset back to default on next update.