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What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Linux lacks GUI configuration tools for many things, you have to edit text files often using guidance for obsolete versions of software and hope it works. Every single config file can have thousands of lines and if you wrote something wrong it will crash or start acting weirdly, very fragile design. GUI config tools mostly allow valid inputs like checkbox true/false and complain if the path isn't valid.

Edit: to clarify, i'm exclusively using linux since 2008 and i'm not 'afraid of editing config files', downvoting me doesn't fix the problem. I'm also not fond of fixing your header files for them to compile.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

These things exist for windows as well but they are not accessible. Linux is a car without the plastic hood over the motor. Its not dumbed down.

Does that make it hard to see the three things a noob should touch? Yes.

But there are linux distros that take care of this so this comment isn’t correct.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

SUSE is weird but their YaST was compelling enough to make them an option. Cockpit in RHEL doesn’t compare. I think that having admins edit text files is bad. The capability should be there, but it should not be mandatory. Editing files manually instead of a GUI increases the odds of a mistype trashing the system.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Take hours to update every 2nd Tuesday. Run like squat on old/low end hardware. Require an add blocker to stay safe.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Windows has a better initial setup. Often, when installing a new distro I gotta spend a couple of hours installing, troubleshooting and customizing what I need on Linux (even on beginner distros) while on Windows, you just install it, download a couple of apps from the web and restart to catch up on updates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

The big one for me is running mobile apps as an integrated experience

Waydroid simply doesn't work well yet.

Streamdeck support too.

VMware install isnt as seamless as it should be

Windows tiling in gnome, but, magnet for Macos is far better than both

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