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Just knowing how to use Google/ddg/etc to search for a solution to your problem makes you better at troubleshooting than most people. Spending 30 seconds to find a relevant link can make you seem like a genius to a lot of people.

Yep. Haven't used windows besides poking at other people's machines and trying to figure out wtf is going on in about 20 years.

I'm just as clueless as you bud, but I've got a bootable Linux drive I can plug in. Come on, you know you wanna... It'll be great, you'll love it. It's free

I've been on Linux exclusively for over 5 years now. I'm starting to struggle with some Windows stuff that I just forgot how to do. But also I'm still shit at Linux. It just works so well that I never really had to learn what's under the hood.

I think another part of this is that you can do a little sleuthing in Linux and generally figure out what's causing an issue because the error messages are generally helpful!

In Linux, running a buggy / non-starting app in terminal will usually spit out something understandable. I think once we figure this out it spoils us a little.

Windows on the other hand, with anything that actually requires intervention, seems to go out of its way to be obtuse and goes all "contact your system administrator" about it. You spend more time trying to look up and cipher their "error codes" and dealing with unhelpful "support" than figuring the problem. (Which usually involves "nuke and pave a driver" anyway. Lol)

Maybe for some, but even if you have to keep it up because your work it relatives demand it, Windows ecosystem is essentially impossible to debug when it hits issues and you just have to take guesses as to why the obscure bad behavior is happening.

Windows is better at not needing to be fixed or the first place by self healing, whereas with Linux distributions you have to know how to fix those issues, but once it goes beyond easy to fix issues, Linux is reparable but windows isn't.

If it isn't blatantly obvious, it didn't fix itself, and SFC didn't fix it, then they always say reinstall...

Under Linux you find the root cause and fix it.

Under Windows you just try everything until something magically works.

Except the success chances are significantly higher on Linux and It's easy to find a manual.

I remember learning a lot of stuff as a side effect of Morrowind modding. :D

Then they're shit admins, I'm always using Command Prompt and Powershell because the GUI fell short somewhere.

Also

Try telling them that the thing they are trying to do is in the settings app.

There's a reason for that, the settings app is trash the second you need to do something beyond the basics and doesn't cover enterprisey things whatsoever

But now they're Linux problems and easier to solve!

And when the Settings app has even 70% feature parity, I'll stop crying about control panel.

And to add insult to injury, many of the issues in Windows are just "I don't want to do this the way MS wants everyone to do this."

There is still not a neat replacement for wmic in PowerShell. If I want to do the equivalent of wmic product where name="some shitware" call uninstall it looks like this:

$instance = Get-CimInstance win32_process -Filter "Name = 'powershell_ise.exe'" $instance | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName 'Terminate'

Like how the hell is that easier to understand Microsoft? Everything else in PowerShell follows a general pattern of Upper Camelcase.

That's just one instance of what I've found working with pwsh at work that leaves me thinking wtf

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
Pray that it works.