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    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 minutes ago

    I'll say it once, I'll say it forever: Windows has better backward compatibility, period. Even compared to linux. Rebuilding an old open source linux app to work on a modern distro can be done, but it's a process that could take hours or days. And if you don't have the source code you're shit out of luck. Have fun getting that binary built against a 1 year old version of glibc to work. This, incidentally is what things like flatpak, docker and ubuntu's nonsense competitor to both (of which our hatred is entirely rational no really stop laughing) are trying to solve.

    Meanwhile microsoft office still handles leap years wrong because it might break backwards compatibility with old documents. Binaries built for windows xp will usually just work on windows 11. Packages built for ubuntu 22.0 often won't run on ubuntu 23.0. You never notice this because linux are a culture of recompilers. Rebuilding every last package once a month is just how some distros roll. But that's not backwards compatibility, that's ongoing maintenance.

    [–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    "I can't delete bloatware" - all 3 of them

    [–] Fabian@feddit.org 14 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    I would say you can on do that on Windows and Android, but it is not intended by the OS and you have to work around certain measures. Linux just lets you do everything, even if it is a really bad idea

    [–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    you could do that on windows. no longer.

    linux is fine, just don't sudo under the influence.

    [–] TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

    All of them are pushing generative AI that many users don't want and you have to manually opt out on Windows and Mac.

    [–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

    And you'll often just be opted back in the next time there's an update.

    [–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    nah windows will not let you disable things like windows defender and telemetry, even if you have windows enterprise edition. It might be possible to delete it some of the bloatware, but it'll just reinstall itself in an update.

    [–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

    Tbf not letting the average windows user turn off windows defender is a good idea

    [–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 71 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    My favourite thing about updates on my work Mac is when you say 'try in one hour' thinking it'll ask you then an hour later it aggressively closes your programs. I use Linux, Mac and Windows regularly and Mac has by far the worst update experience out of all of them imo.

    [–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 minutes ago

    Major update? 1 hour. Minor update? 1 hour.

    [–] Marty_Man_X@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

    Yes but it also reopens everything exactly as you left it, meaning you can update and not loose anything mission critical; ymmv ofc but in my personal experience MacOS has the best update experience from mainstream OS

    [–] arken@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

    Definitely. I've used macos for work for 10+ years now and never had an issue with updates. Windows updates on the other hand...

    [–] CameronDev@programming.dev 49 points 17 hours ago

    I've clicked the "install updates tonight" button a bunch of times, it consistently fails to update and then I have to force it to update the next morning. Incredibly poor experience.

    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (11 children)

    You can also remove the fr*nch language pack via rm -fr /

    But in all seriosity, i tried to install Linux dual-boot with Windows on my dad's computer last weekend, and it broke the windows install because it doesn't support bitlocker (apparently). Maybe i could have gotten it to work, but i abandoned the project after the first failed attempt. Still a bit salty about that. Especially since it was meant to be a demonstration how "quick and easy" installing Linux nowadays supposedly is.

    [–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

    I was installing Linux on sb else's PC, to skip the Bitlocker warning I had to boot Windows, use cmd to assign drive letters to recovery partitions and disable bitlocker on them, again from cmd. The owner was confused because they had disabled bitlocker on C: but got Bitlocker warning on Linux installer anyways, I was looking at stackoverflow threads to find the right commands right next to the owner because I hadn't used Windows for years and forgot how to do things lol. Fun times.

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