Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
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Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
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#3No telemetry.
No overriding auto-update settings.
No license to pay.
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#4Where is the corresponding document listing objective reasons to prefer Windows over Linux? Without that, this effort cannot be taken seriously.
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#5Does it have to be better, or even preferable? Is "it's sufficiently good for my needs but it's free" not enough?
Whole industries have died because a free product has emerged that's "good enough" for 90+% of people. When was the last time anybody bought the electronic Encyclopedia Brittanica now we have Wikipedia?
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#6No telemetry. No overriding auto-update settings. No license to pay.
As long as it's not ubuntu for the first two points
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#7It lists file system case sensitivity as a pro, which it isn't. Case sensitivity is the default you get when you don't think about the users, and windows chose the opposite because it's better.
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#8No telemetry. No overriding auto-update settings. No license to pay.
As long as it's not ubuntu for the first two points
Saying Ubuntu has telemetry like Windows is shaky at best. Ubuntu asks you whether you want it, doesn't mandate it for people who don't buy enterprise licenses, and doesn't sneak in new kinds of telemetry when you already disabled what's there.
Saying Ubuntu overrides auto-update settings is just false. If you turn off automatic updates, nothing will automatically update.
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#9Objective reasons to prefer anything else over Linux: Security. Linux is now the least secure desktop OS available, with limited sandboxing and no provision for checking binary signatures. It's 2020, the net is a dangerous place, and if you want to avoid malware, signature checks must be done on everything from the bootloader up through the user application code.
Re: Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
#10Where is the corresponding document listing objective reasons to prefer Windows over Linux? Without that, this effort cannot be taken seriously.
True. From a regular Fedora and occasional windows user
Office runs on it, games work on it, Thinkpad touchpad drivers aren't shit, Microsoft To Do is still better than anything anyone else has come up with, fractional scaling that works properly, power management that works properly, half decent recovery options, best corporate SSO and device management on the market, smoothest full disk encryption.