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I mean, you don't HAVE to do any of that stuff in Windows, it's just helps a bit.
I'm sure there are plenty of windows horror stories. But almost every Windows computer I've had in the last decade, both custom and OEM, has worked pretty well out of the box. And almost every Ubuntu computer I've had over the last decade has had problems that weren't trivial to fix.
I like Linux, but when people compare these problems like they're the same just are missing the point.
Yep exactly this. The user friendliness and likeliness it just works is much higher for Windows.
If it doesn't work for Linux I've found it also will generally take much longer to figure out and fix.
Sure because
Error Code 0x8007057
tells you immediately how to solve the problem.Linux error messages like
error: kex_exchange_identification: client sent invalid protocol identifier "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1"
are completely arcane tough.I support both systems. And Linux support is so much easier. Mostly in runs out of the box. If it runs I continues to do so and If you have an error you get a specific message like above.
With such a message you either:
With Windows: No systems runs out of the box, I always have to install additional software (7zip, sane browser, ...) and also for anybody remotely privacy concerned have to adjust many settings (for which tools exist thankfully)
If an error occurs under Windows and I get a code like above:
I agree those kinds of arcane windows errors suck worse than they do in Linux. But I get those errors so rarely on either system.
In Windows, I'll have something happen like my windows won't remember their last position when I unlock.
In Ubuntu I'll have to restart my Bluetooth service every week or so. Or sometimes the update-software modal will not take focus or accept mouse/keyboard input until I reboot. Most recently I had an app from the official app store fill up my entire partition because it spammed syslog, which broke my credentials cache, and I couldn't even log in until I made a temporary sudo user and emptied syslog.
None of these are super difficult, but they also don't provide error messages.