I'm pretty sure nobody has enough money to pay me to give up my Linux...
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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I ask out of respect the the devs that make our wonderful distros we love so much:
Have you donated to them and their work?
If there's not enough money to make you give it up, how much are you willing to give to keep it alive?
I always donate. With every new release. My rule is to give an offering to the gods that make all this possible every time I do a git pull. ;-).
Especially things like mastodon and lemmy.
Horray!
I've been a computer geek since 1987. I started out on dos and spent a lot of my time in Windows, but I've used Linux as well for more than 25 years now.
This article was as useless and as stupid as I anticipated. They clearly are happy in Linux and they were not going to be happy in Windows.
I'm quite happy in both. I like both. I think there's advantages and disadvantages to both. I will definitely say that there are some things I really prefer in Linux. But in recent years, a lot of that I've gotten to incorporate over on the window side things.
I now have bash under Windows. I have the compose key under Windows thanks to a third party utility called wincompose. It's free.
It doesn't take me excessive clicks to do things. In Windows I mean.
And thanks to modern technology, not quite everything is upgraded under Linux with APK anymore.
I've had very few problems under Windows. And I've had very few problems under Linux. As far as system stability.
Use what you like. Use what you enjoy. Use what works better for you. For me, that's both.
While I agree with your overall sentiment, I also think that calling the article "useless and stupid" kind of ignores that the author explicitly states in the very first sentence that they can only present the perpesective of a long-time exclusive Linux user. Undoubtedly, had the author been a longtime user of both Linux and Windows, as is your case, then surely they would have had a different experience and conslusions all together.
I'm not saying the author isn't biased in favour of Linux - all I am saying is that they seem to be pretty upfront about it from the very get go. Had they pretended to supposedly be writing an objective, scientifically valid comparison, then I would concede there is an element of stupidity. But that's not the case - they're pretty transparent as to who they are and what perspective they are describing their experience from.
Tldr: arguably its more like some sort of guilty-pleasure entertainment for Linux users rather than "stupid"
He’s completely overlooked the thing that annoys me the most: the unbelievable number of clicks you need to make in Windows/Microsoft to get anything done. – Saving a file to a folder of your choice:
- Windows: Click ‘Save’ -> Click ‘Choose a different location’ -> Scroll down to skip all the favourites and default locations -> Click the drive where you want to save the file -> Find the folder -> Click ‘Save’
- Linux: Click ‘Save’ -> Go to the folder -> press 'Save'
Not ot mention my recent attempts to rename a Bluetooth device (two devices of the same type were displayed under the same name, making it impossible to tell them apart) 🤮
Microsoft screwed this up when they tried to make onedrive the default and therefore purposely made saving to disk harder.
Now you need to know the F12 shortcut to bring up the expected behaviour breaking decades of muscle memory.
Onedrive is a fuckin' pain in the ass! Sends your files to Microslop and the files on your pc become shortcuts.
I went back to Windows10. Much easier to create a local account upon install. With Win11 they make you jump through hoops.
Saving a file to a folder of your choice
What program are you seeing that?
I use Linux and Windows and don't see that. I just checked with saving a file in the Windows version of Orca (3d slicer), Save brings up the standard Windows dialog that has all the folders on the left panel and the contents of the currently selected folder on the right panel. It's virtually identical to the Save dialog box of Orca under Ubuntu right down to dividing local directories on top of the left panel and network share on the bottom left.
That's the default Save in Windows. A program has to go out of its way to avoid the standard Windows Save dialog box which is the same problem Linux programs can have.
Both of those take basically the same amount of time. It's very fast on Windows if you pin the folder you want to that list you're talking about skipping.
Almost like that's intended or something. Weird!
Be fair though, "saving from a GUI app" is not exactly Linux's strong point either.
Click "save"; wonder which badly written save dialog this app is going to use; is it the one with the save button at the top? Or the bottom? Will it actually appear, or will it pop up below the window for Reasons, making you think the dammed thing has crashed? Maybe it's one with a list of favourite locations in the left maybe it's not... Maybe they're actually my favourite locations, or maybe it's an entirely different set of the developer's. If I'm lucky, there's a way to navigate to my home directory without going all the eay to the root and working up from there, more than likely not...
Best of all, it's one of those Save dialogues that thinks it's smart to enumerate the entire goddamned filesystem, network mounts and all, before it will respond to any input at all, leading to the window manager eventually fretting that maybe the application has crashed... Or perhaps it's one of those ones related to Dolphin that thinks it understands WebDAV mounts better than davfs, except that it actually doesn't and you end up saving to a temporary directory just so you can move the file where you actually wanted it from the commandline...
aaaaaargh
Don't get me wrong, I use Linux on all my machines and have been a Unix user since NetBSD 0.8 (33 years, fml...) But clicking "save" or "open" is one of those things that has me shaking my head thinking "how can it STILL be this bad" every time.
Each application is using the save dialog from whatever graphics API it was made in. GTK, qt, some tK ones are still kicking around...
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For someone used to desktop Linux, where respect for the user, consistency, customisability, and performance are still held in high regard, Windows 11 feels like an endless string of punches in the face.
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I've been forced to use windows for some propriety software during uni. I got a laptop from IT with higher specs than my old one and:
- It runs worse than my old shitty laptop
- It boots up slower than my old shitty laptop
- The battery icon was missing from the taskbar for some ungodly reason (I had to get IT to force an update)
- The internet it gets is way worse than my old shitty laptop. I do not know why
So yeah I'm not using Windows 11 ever again
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There’s a similar incentive to this Windows 11 one, but for macOS. Yikes.
Not sure why that warrants a yikes; macOS is far more usable than Windows 11. I’d go so far as to call it downright pleasant in comparison.
On average, yeah, but when it's worse, it's the most bafflingly bad.
Like why is the only way to be able to open files in a hidden folder to remember a keyboard shortcut? There's no icon, and you can't type a subfolder name.
Windows’ weird UX of having that temporary view setting in the context menu makes no sense, but at least I don't have to Google how to do it every time.
I wouldn't say so. PowerToys and WSL are absolutely incredible tools for advanced users.
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Sleep/Wake issues
I’ve had plenty of sleep/wake issues on Linux, including on my current setup which is Bazzite (based on Fedora, which the author uses). Currently on Bazzite, some things don’t restart correctly after a reboot (specifically Gnome tweaks and OpenRGB). Not the worst issue but still annoying.
AltGr Dead Keys
This is the default behavior on macOS
A desktop operating system needs to come with a solid, serviceable email client. I consider this non-optional.
The only truly useful email client I’ve used is the default macOS one. I am actively taking suggestions for Linux. I tried one called Evolution I think? It was ok but didn’t support all my different email providers. I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.
I honestly think the author might have a better time with macOS. Not that they would prefer it over Linux, but a lot of what they complain about is better on Mac.
Whenever I experienced a short stretch of time where I felt “perhaps this isn’t so bad?”, one (or multiple) of the problems and issues described above would snap me out of it.
This was my experience trying to switch to Linux until very recently (until I started using Bazzite). Even now I still regularly have issues I need to debug, but it’s much, much more stable than previous distros I tried.
I tried Thunderbird but it baffles me that I can’t view an email and have the list of emails open on the side.
You can do that. That is how I use thunderbird.
I don't remember if I had to change the default config, but I think it comes like that, no? Anyways, if not, it's probably an easy setting somewhere to get it how you like.
My latest version of Thunderbird comes with the far right side panel being used to read email, the center panel a list, and the left is my boxes.
I also cant use deepsleep with linux, suspend ro ram or disk doesnt work well and my pc will hang but i can live with this since i never had anny other issues with endeavoros. Being in charge of when and how updates happen and how fast they install is enough to never go back to winodws. I just need freecad to become good.
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