Here’s something that never happened with Windows: Wifi becoming completely disabled because I installed proprietary graphics drivers while installing Kubuntu. Happened twice before I realized I couldn’t do that during the install. Worked fine after that. Well, not totally fine. The desktop session would freeze up every time so I had to ctrl+alt+f3 to get a terminal session so I could command line update the system. After that I was finally able to get to a desktop and start using my system. Totally ready for every day users. I can’t remember the last time I had Windows crash on me. On Manjaro I had my desktop session lock up or just a full system crash at least once a day. And holy cow, I haven’t had to reboot that many times to install updates since the early 00s.
My experience is typical based on my interactions with people trying out Linux and giving up. And then getting snide comments from Linux cultists online. It’s a small wonder that more people don’t use Linux!
Here’s something that never happened with Windows: Wifi becoming completely disabled because I installed proprietary graphics drivers while installing Kubuntu. Happened twice before I realized I couldn’t do that during the install. Worked fine after that. Well, not totally fine. The desktop session would freeze up every time so I had to ctrl+alt+f3 to get a terminal session so I could command line update the system. After that I was finally able to get to a desktop and start using my system. Totally ready for every day users. I can’t remember the last time I had Windows crash on me. On Manjaro I had my desktop session lock up or just a full system crash at least once a day. And holy cow, I haven’t had to reboot that many times to install updates since the early 00s.
My experience is typical based on my interactions with people trying out Linux and giving up. And then getting snide comments from Linux cultists online. It’s a small wonder that more people don’t use Linux!