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    Windows VS Linux (part 2) (lemmy.world)
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    [–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Literally

    My desktop/laptop experience for both is as follows:

    Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser (unless you count w98 "everything is a website" concept for the desktop or the far in between instances were a PC was offline/having issues and you need to download update packages)

    It also updated windows applications (ie office) but yeah it never intended to upgrade other stuff, all other software had their own auto update check

    I'll concede the restart because yeah it does all for that

    But yeah Linux install is not without issues, and I'll just remind everyone of how difficult it was/is to install a component driver when it's not automatically found (wifi cards, disk controllers, and Realtek drivers anyone?)

    Yeah it does update your apps, as long as you have the repos, and restart wise I distinctively remember that you do need to do restarts after updates, be it major distro or not.

    Simple commands? I'll concede that, as long as we remember the average Linux user is used to a less user friendly experience. Complain ask you want but for the average user, windows update experience works

    Thankfully I don't need to deal with all that stuff now

    [–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I haven't had a driver issue except for Nvidia where the driver exists, but it sucks

    [–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

    NVIDIA is the second biggest wankstain of a thing on my computer, unfortunately AMD didn't put high end GPUs in laptops so there wasn't a whole lot of choice.

    [–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    What's so hard about sudo pacman -Syu

    Is easy

    No sketchy website like having to go to Firefox.com to download Firefox. Ughhh

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    winget install firefox

    [–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

    I maintain a bunch of PC's and 2 of them won't update anymore with some vague error code that only has a microsoft community forum post as search result. I'll get it fixed, but Windows update is not quite flawless and a non tech person would be lost at this point.

    People seem to be having a hard time grasping that most of the time it works great on both Windows and Linux. Majority of people will have a solid experience. But on both platforms, when things go to shit, you need to get your hands dirty. And with that final thought, I like to add that because of it's openness, is usually easier to troubleshoot an issue on Linux because it doesn't obscure what it's doing unlike Windows ("Please wait...", "Setting things up", ... dafuq u doin, it says 100%, is it doing anything still or is it hanging?). Windows' vagueness has been a pet peeve of mine and it's only getting worse. I'm perfectly ok shielding it by default, but give me a verbose option.

    [–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 points 3 weeks ago

    Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

    In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.