I disagree. Linux 10 years ago maybe but Linux today out of the box is very capable and stable. Windows on the other hand has had its fair share of instability and enshittification. I won’t say Linux is for everyone because I understand the edge cases and some people just like what they already know but it’s never been closer to matching windows and doing so with more privacy, security, and efficiency than windows.
Aside from all of that when I think about the changes from windows 7 to windows 11 the only meaningful thing that stands out is a UI facelift. How did we go from 8gb handling the OS and playing games 10 years ago to saying 16gb is what we need for regular tasks but 32gb is what you really want for gaming on top of GPUs also having twice the ram they used to. I just feel like we are all trying to make excuses for M$ and I’m done with it. Ignoring their BS requirements for TPMs and secure boot which they’ve pushed into the gaming market and allowed gaming companies to have kernel level access to our machines and abandon perfectly good hardware because it doesn’t meet this BS requirement.
I disagree. Linux 10 years ago maybe but Linux today out of the box is very capable and stable. Windows on the other hand has had its fair share of instability and enshittification. I won’t say Linux is for everyone because I understand the edge cases and some people just like what they already know but it’s never been closer to matching windows and doing so with more privacy, security, and efficiency than windows.
Aside from all of that when I think about the changes from windows 7 to windows 11 the only meaningful thing that stands out is a UI facelift. How did we go from 8gb handling the OS and playing games 10 years ago to saying 16gb is what we need for regular tasks but 32gb is what you really want for gaming on top of GPUs also having twice the ram they used to. I just feel like we are all trying to make excuses for M$ and I’m done with it. Ignoring their BS requirements for TPMs and secure boot which they’ve pushed into the gaming market and allowed gaming companies to have kernel level access to our machines and abandon perfectly good hardware because it doesn’t meet this BS requirement.