Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping! So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex (booo, but still better than windows) and Bazzite!
Be careful here… There will be a learning curve, and you may end up being the tech support person if you aren’t already.
I kinda already am. I hate working on their windows problems
Yeah, fair. At least you’ll get fewer facepalms this way!
If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.
At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.
My family is famously stubborn and unreasonable to our own detriment. And by famous I mean famous there’s a little blurb about my asshole relatives being stubborn in a local history book and we took this fact as a good thing
I kinda love some of them though so I guess I’m fine with it
I installed fedora workstation on the computer of the mother of my wife. It just works. I set google chrome on autoboot and told her, if there is a pop up that says update system klick yes. Never had a single problem with it.
WARNING they may suffer from less bugs, less annoying updates, better performance, less spyware and functional package management.
Before anyone says anything I am aware there are trade-offs due to switching from what you know.
Are you sure it would be less bugs? I havent been using windows for like 2-3 years, but it cant have gotten that bad, right?
I was part of tech support for work until last year.
My list of ridiculous bugs is quite long… Even down to basics like the microphone, using Microsoft office at all, windows explorer, and opening teams had bugs where people’s work laptops were unusable for day to day tasks.
I may have just had ridiculous luck to avoid all bugs on both linux and windows
Most of the bugs i have seen on linux were actually from a friend i convinced to move to linux
I guess the base version of windows is relatively ok but Microsoft Office and Overdrive/SharePoint are both completely unusable. Which is insane considering they are industry standards.
Although Linux seems to be generally much more stable in my experience. Of course it depends on the distro.