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    Windows VS Linux (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I probably cannot get Windows to be the way I like it. They make every change I want to make a pain, and the ways to circumvent their shenanigans are always changing. Setting up a local account, changing your default browser, stopping onedrive from wasting your time, all of these should be quick and simple changes, but they just wouldn't let you choose for yourself, they have to shove their products and settings down your throat with every new installation, update, and misclick. I spent more than an hour setting up a new installation and I still find new ways Edge can start itself, I cannot imagine the time it would take for me to make this as usable as a simple Linux installation with some changes to the DE.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    All of these changes you list can be achieved in a couple of clicks.

    Don't know what you are smoking my dude.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    At some point changing the default browser required setting each file type's default app one by one. Using a local account once was a normal option then it became hidden and required setting up some questions then you had to disconnect from Wi-Fi and now it's not a visible option and you have to get around it with some command. This may take you some clicks when you've already installed Windows before, but it's heading towards simply not being an option, and setting up a usable Linux installation is already much easier today.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    This may take you some clicks when you’ve already installed Windows before

    Those same clicks can be used by everyone

    but it’s heading towards simply not being an option

    Speculation, not based on facts.

    and setting up a usable Linux installation is already much easier today.

    Only if you know what you are doing. So exactly the same boat as you put Windows in.