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Microsoft causes learned helplessness
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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I find Linux, especially Arch or Arch-based distros, easier to troubleshoot than Windows. The documentation is decent a majority of the time and the community seems more willing to tailor advice to your specific situation.
By that I mean you can post a log and if someone recognizes it they seem more willing to help you out or at least send you in the right direction.
When I have issues on Windows on the other hand a lot of the time I see the same generic advice over and over again and it usually ends with user being told to download software from their obscure site. Maybe that's just my poor utilization of search engines though.