I’m a teacher and our division just “upgraded” to W11 with a new version of outlook that is basically a web app on desktop. Several times a day my laptop comes to a complete crawl while Teams decides to open itself. Can’t open or close programs, Firefox won’t register mouse clicks, nothing. Graphical glitches appear al the time with menu bars and task bars disappearing regularly, requiring force quitting the app or logging out of the desktop.

When I first switched to Linux I assumed my experience would be like this. But now it’s the other way around.

Rant over.

  • Mr. Satan@monyet.cc
    211·
    2 months ago

    TL; DR
    My experience between Windows and Linux is not much different with how often I have issues. But given the choice I much more prefer my Linux experience.

    I hate Windows just as much as the next guy, but this comment section smells a little of confirmation bias.

    From my experiece (web dev in a mainly MS branded stack) Windows mostly just works. Yes there are horrendous design, UX choices forced upon me, but I can usually force the OS to do what I need and how I need it.

    Now comparing it to my home Pop setup it also mostly just works. There are occasional freezes that require a restart and such, but I wouldn’t say it’s much more different from Windows.

    Now what does differ a lot is that I don’t need to fight the OS to do shit. It’s way better productivitywise, when I know what I’m doing. Which is deffinetly not the case everytime.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Pop setup it also mostly just works. There are occasional freezes that require a restart and such

      Weird. I used Pop for 3-4 years and not once did it freeze, stutter, or require a restart that wasn’t related to an update.

      • Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 months ago

        For me the pop shop always froze. At least that thought me how to use the terminal. But even regular GNOME software was miles ahead of their shop…

    • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 months ago

      That last paragraph is exactly what i feel. In Windows it started to feel more and more like I’m fighting against Microsoft and have to be on edge all the time whereas if in Linux something doesn’t work it’s not because of ill intentions of the people behind the OS.