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Linux pros: You have control over everything Linux cons: You have control over everything

I thought it meant 90% of the ones switching to windows

I still boot to windows every now and then to play games. But each time windows painfully reminds me why I hate it

A suggestion for everyone that's kinda new, and to be honest, grizzled vets too... Use chatgpt as a trouble shooting tool. It's really surprising how good it is sometimes. I've had it write bash scripts in minutes, solve obscure Firefox issues, fix game settings for barely compatible games... So many things

"When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated." —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October

I almost wanted to correct you and say its dual not duel, but when I think about it windows will fight to be the only bootloader right when you think its finally behaving.

Windows basically never nukes the actual linux install. It DOES like breaking the bootloader though. Which is fixable but still deeply annoying.

Reminded me how Windows would set the hardware clock to different timezone that Linux uses, can't remember which.

It would make my blood boil, that's when I decided to never boot it again. 100% Linux everywhere, I get it on routers when I can.

If you are not happy, then try a few more distros.

But to be honest, not every child is technologically-inclined. Most are just gonna get annoyed and hate it. This is not a good idea.

I'd have loved it as a child though

NixOS isn't bad but your right it could be explained better.

Arch is not meant to be a daily driver if you're expecting "shit just works" stability long term when you just blindly run updates. You have to understand what you're updating and sometimes why.

It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems.

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux

If you want to use Arch, you need to invest in snapshots using rsync or dd. Given how it's a rolling release, you should do this weekly. If something fucks up, grab all your logs and put them somewhere safe. Roll back and look at your logs to see what broke. Then apply updates as needed. You can ignore packages for quite a while. If you're not smart enough to understand it now, you may in the future. It takes time and practice.

Debian based is only "out of date" feature wise because they do a package freeze. They ensure stability before release. Updates are largely security related.

But the same can be said with windows. My life long windows user friend occasionally (a few times a year) reaches out about some significant issues they are experiencing with windows on their modern desktop.

I truly wouldn't recommend Linux for a fairly tech illiterate person like him, but really Linux is better in every category that matters to me.

You can usually find the solution to Linux problems on the forum for your distro.

With windows problems, the answer is usually "nothing can be done unless microsoft actually decides to fix it". That's after digging through 10 or more pages of search results filled with AI generated crap.

me?

okay so sometimes you need to run a twenty year old game made for another OS or cpu architecture

which.. weirdly, easier in Linux than win7; Linux has better backward compatibility with windows than windows. was like three clicks to install.

but sometimes that game uses broadcast UDP packets for LAN multiplayer.

and this is where our problem comes from, because broadcast UDP packets are deprecated, and also most modern routers don't love them, I don't think.

so, I needed to find a way to manually readdress outgoing UDP packets from broadcast to a specific set of multicast addresses, which...

also, some issues running USB as serial for some exotic peripherals. and by 'exotic' I mean 'I don't know for sure the PC is the problem; I might have soldered this wrong'.

also some issues in qubes, but that's literally all virtualization, and not a distro for anyone who hasn't both been using Linux for a while and considered the cost of making their apartment a Faraday cage.

a few issues with bare arch, which is the 'do everything from scratch 0 automation bleeding edge tech nerd, no, seriously you need to manually download a file system' distro. don't use arch if you don't know what youre doing.

Only dual boot two Linux partitions. Dual booting windows is a waste of disk space, and liable to fuck with your bootloader every update.