90% of errors, issues are user mistakes. Not window's fault you use it wrong. That is a fact.

Originally posted by KaveMan:

90% of errors, issues are user mistakes. Not window's fault you use it wrong. That is a fact.

Wow, someone learned text formatting, probably worth a medal.

What was the argument here? Let's just roll with that figure, it still means 10% acknowledged. That is pretty far from the 0 mark it should be.

How come my W7 box went 12 years without any problem while the W11 laptop bluscreened at least 4 times just this year. That is the progress for you.

I do not use Windows much anymore, but whenever I do my experience looks something like this;

1. Install Windows.
2. Fight you way past all the ads, spyware, and the Microsoft account requirement.
3. Dodge shady download sites to find the latest drivers.
4. Bluescreen while installing drivers.
5. Hope the driver install didn't permanently mess up the system.

When installing litterally anything else;

1. Install OS.
2 Just start using it, that was all.

LMAO @ steps 2-5

Welcome to 2025 where using PC out of a box is not a good experience.

even vista worked out of the box, and that was an upsidedown mess of an os

As using win11 for 8 months. Its not that bad. Yes they still hide stuff in you. I miss win2000. Best windows ever made.

I used Rufus for win11

No idea what you people are doing to have such issues with Windows 11, I don't have any of them unless I am messing with my overclocks.

No dodgy driver sites, no adverts being spammed etc.

Seems to mostly be user error tbh.

Originally posted by KaveMan:

90% of errors, issues are user mistakes. Not window's fault you use it wrong. That is a fact.

Considering that almost every rig out there is a windows machine and that the vast majority of users are not tech savvy, that figure is low.

@Damian
I used to reinstall windows once annually but given the fact how awful this os has gotten with every update since, I'm reinstalling it every few months.

If rumours are true then Microsoft has been using AI for windows updates which would explain everything.

I personally have much less issues with Windows than with Linux. I have no crashes on Windows.

Apart of Linux Mint, most distros have tons of bugs for me. Some distros can’t even complete installation. Almost all distros launch in unasable state with blinking black screens. AMD GPUs have no official drivers with HDMI 2.1 support but 99% of distros ignore that fact and launch with blinking screen.

It’s theoretically easy to “fix” by changing chroma subsampling from 4:4:4 to 4:2:0 to avoid bandwidth constraints but without Adrenalin app it’s close to impossible on most distros with wayland.

No HDMI 2.1 support may sound not important for many but it might be crucial for Valve and potential console like Steam Box.

Tend to agree somewhat, Windows was on an upward trend and it was getting better every release until Win 7, since then its just gone downhill imo. Now its just a disguised data miner connecting everyone to everything everywhere, Microsoft probably knows more about us than we do.

What MS needs is competition and there is none, Linux is far far away yet to becoming anything close to that. What Linux needs (imo again), is a standard OS not the miriad of os's to choose from that no-one understands.

Originally posted by Omega:

I do not use Windows much anymore, but whenever I do my experience looks something like this;

1. Install Windows.
2. Fight you way past all the ads, spyware, and the Microsoft account requirement.
3. Dodge shady download sites to find the latest drivers.
4. Bluescreen while installing drivers.
5. Hope the driver install didn't permanently mess up the system.

When installing litterally anything else;

1. Install OS.
2 Just start using it, that was all.

This literally never happens.

2: There are no ads or spyware. The Microsoft account is harmless to use and it's good to remember your settings with it. Windows also asks and you can that stuff to a minimum.

3: WHERE are you going to download drivers? This is a YOU problem. Also the only driver you need to really download and install are for the graphics cards these day.

4: Uh huh, sure, maybe back in XP or 98 this would happen.

5: The odds of this is perhaps 1 in 100 000 000.

Linux users love to make the claim that some very unique issues are happening at all times.

All though we can just use Linus from LTT to prove how Linux likes to uninstall itself on a whim. It happens more often than people like to believe.

Originally posted by Zefar:

All though we can just use Linus from LTT to prove how Linux likes to uninstall itself on a whim. It happens more often than people like to believe.

User issue
If someone can't read then why should operate a machine in the first place? Also it was a dependency bug caused by Pop OS repository.

Originally posted by A&A:

Originally posted by Zefar:

All though we can just use Linus from LTT to prove how Linux likes to uninstall itself on a whim. It happens more often than people like to believe.

User issue
If someone can't read then why should operate a machine in the first place?

I stopped reading after linus sex trips was mentioned.