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And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.
Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 .... I mean you've got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.
I don't entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It's usually some obscure error code that I can't find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.
Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.
I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn't have to use them to work on projects with others.
I've actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!