I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025
I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025
Do you think there's any reason to switch to Windows? Well, we don't think so, and here's why!
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I can't afford a broken system anytime and that's why i can't use linux. It breaks when you least expect.
My son was literally crying earlier today because his VR headset is no longer visible from Windows and all of his efforts to fix it (driver updates, tweaking various program settings, and so on) failed.
So... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A perfect example of what windows stans are blind to. That you will literally always have trouble on windows doing most things (at some point), and depending on what software you use and other factors, windows might be more problematic for you than even running a rolling release that might break any time. That's the case for me. Also, running the less stable releases is absolutely a choice. Other more stable releases probably break far less often than windows.
Try a different USB port.
My Valve Index doesn't like my on-board Asus ports but works fine when plugged in a PCIe USB card.
Funnily enough I could say the same about Windows
That thing has broken itself more times than I can count but my 2 linux machines (I still have 1 Windows machine) have been rock solid for 2 years now
The most only reason I have the last Windows machine is because I've been lazy about switching it lol
It really depends on your needs for sure. My linux systems have been rock solid. Been windows free for years. But i absolutely know people who have workloads that break seemingly weekly on linux. Like say example android emulation. Easy on windows, bluestacks. On linux? Lots of options from waydroid to blissOS on qemu but they break fucking constantly
While I can't speak for others I use Waydroid and it is pretty solid.
When it works, it works great. But almost every update for me and my friend completely breaks waydroid and it will just refuse to boot stuck at the linage booting animation for eternity. Been trying to get him on stable android it's the only thing he misses from windows but it's been a chore
I I believe Linux appeals to a specific group of users. Personally, I rely heavily on Microsoft Office. Unfortunately, LibreOffice and OpenOffice don't meet my needs because they often alter document formats when I share files across different platforms.
I rely heavily on Microsoft Office
Oh, boy. Get a better job.
Literally every office job ad in my country wants MSOffice experience. Many also want GSuite even though that's redundant. I've even seen one in the legal sector that wanted WordPerfect. Can't speak for the other guy, but not everyone has an option to "get a better job."
Yeah, that's a lie.
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4f87b9a36bbb1839
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=061114cdc20ef415
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=4736c4c40c53499b
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=34e18aa739dd2a54
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=3cdb4d0af94558c3
https://ca.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=46bf61f624a4900b
Top six jobs on Indeed, search query "office assistant" in Calgary, AB. Ctrl+F for "MS Office" or "Microsoft". Can't show you the one that wanted WordPerfect because it expired months ago and I didn't save the link. Not to mention it would dox me.
YeAh, ThAt'S a LiE
Here are the results of searching "Linux sysadmin", none of them requires MS Office experience but they all require Linux experience. Do you understand now why your comment is stupid?
Okay, so firstly, stupid != deceitful. Secondly, there's absolutely no need for insults. Lastly, when a person says "office job" they generally don't mean "Linux sysadmin." They mean someone who writes documents all day or puts numbers into spreadsheets. And in the context of this conversation, it should be obvious that it's referring specifically to those that use word processors or spreadsheet software. Furthermore, that link pulls up a whopping 4 jobs. That is not a good sample size, even if any of them did mention having to use a word processor, spreadsheet software, etc.
But hey, just accuse me of lying and stupidity. Not like there's a person on the other side of your screen or anything.
Yep. 4 is a terrible sample size, I didn't even look at the results since the point I was trying to make was about selection bias, which you seem to understand so I don't know why you even thought posting the previous comment was a good idea.
I'll apologize for calling your comment stupid, though. That was unnecessarily hostile of me and uncalled for.
Well, I wasn't about to go through every single one of those results haha. Search "office assistant" in any city and you'll have a thousand ads to go through. If I knew anything about the Indeed API and was better at scripting, I could probably count every single one that mentioned MS Office or some variety of it (and I'd be willing to bet that most would contain that due to having seen hundreds of those ads over the last few years) but I'm shit at scripting and honestly just cba.
And no worries. I got offended was getting snippy anyways, so I should take my own advice.
Quintessential Linux user comment
Yeah my Windows system has my Lightroom install and my Fusion 360 install, part of my laziness is that I hear that you can get both to work but I haven't bothered to shift over and make the attempt at getting them to work.
The open source alternatives for those 2 just aren't there for me.
You can get Fusion 365 working but it is a pain and I wouldn't recommend it.
What you could do is setup Windows in a KVM VM with some sort of graphics acceleration. With guest addons it will be like native.
You could use PDF
I think it's really funny when people say this because this is exactly what made me stop using Windows.
The only thing I ever had consistently break on me on Windows was the search indexing running constantly and eating up all my resources. Easy enough to turn that off, but then you can't search files. I switched because I don't like corpos. Just curious what happened with your system to make you ditch it.
The system would intermittently just hard crash. I suspect it was a GPU driver issue (the Radeon RX 5700XT had notoriously unreliable Windows drivers for a while).
Well to be fair, this dude heard a story once that someone else's OS broke! /s
In my experience Windows takes way more troubleshooting and time debugging and fixing things than linux does. Theres a reason people use linux for critical servers, it tends to be extremely reliable once everything is set up.
Not to mention is is very easy to automate. You can deploy thousands of servers with a button and delete them all if you want.
Immutable systems do not have this problem at all.
Try out bazzite, which is based on silverblue/kinoite but comes with some extra stuff preconfigured.
Try Silverblue or Kinoite. They're designed such that if you find an update breaks something, you can literally revert to the version before that update with a reboot. Application distribution through flatpaks offers pre-configured environments so it's not a pain to get stuff running. Toolbox lets you dick around in isolation from the system. You'd really have to go out of your way to break something. Great stuff.
Silverblue and kinoite are great but I recommend bazzite to people now, silverblue/kinoite don't work with twitch out of the box because of some ffmpeg nonsense, bazzite is just a lot easier since the iso is pre-configured to your hardware and everything just works.
Agree 100%. Bazzite is what you want if you're gaming or you need the nvidia proprietary driver.
You also can revert transitional packages