• AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Sums up every conversation I’ve had where a Windows person has told me they won’t use Linux because of how complicated it is. Sure, Windows may be easier initially, up until the point that something decides not to work, and then you’re left tracking down obscure forum threads and blog posts. You check event logs, and there’s either nothing relevant, or you find an event that just sums up the exact error you already saw. Microsoft’s own support forum is just a graveyard of threads ending in “please run sfc and/or dism”. Contrast that with open source logs, for the most part, you’ll know what the problem is just from reading through the output. It’s usually not pretty, and boy is it a lot of log messages, but at least you’re not completely in the dark. And I mean this for both server and personal computer usage. Microsoft just has a terrible track record with being verbose about errors.

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      yeah I still don’t know why it kept deleting my ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth drivers, they had no errors and reinstalls made them work again for a few seconds just to get deleted again

      Windows… You’re an enigma… An enigma that made me move to openSuSE…