- Echoes of the phraise they commonly like to use: ‘skill issue’
Who’s more likely to have done unnecessary risky registry editing (or cleaning) and followed crappy ‘debloat’ guides? -Someone that would be willing to jump ship and try another OS; that’s who! -And these are the kind to be vocal in forums: ‘Windows update botched my install!’.
Ever wonder why 3rd party hacks come out when Windows is still working on the same thing? - (currently being able to configure the task bar). Yea they’re being careful about it.
Problems stemming from user’s extensive and breaking configuration changes in Linux can be blamed on other things, ‘you chose the wrong distro’ -for example. (Always pointing the finger away). There’s not a distro that’s in common use that doesn’t have people bitching about it.
Gnome has to deal with these people using ‘Gnome Tweaks’. Gnome has been the default desktop environment on many of the major distros for reasons. It attempts to enforce good work flow and habits like keeping your desktop clean and using keyboard shortcuts. It’s less buggy by default than Plasma (which focuses on features and innovations). It’s the closest thing Linux users have to a consistent interface that they could use for non CLI tech support.
These people try to sell Linux as being ‘more secure’, when security is 99% on the user and they’re referring to a barebones system vs a whole desktop installation. -You got it: their failure to perform timely update makes them less secure.
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Title: My internet is not that fast (6mb/s, shared with at least 2 others). (note: updating less frequently uses less data, at least when it comes to skipping over multiple versions of packages particularly for larger ones like the kernel)
Back when I used W7 I hated updates too. For the same reason (but even slower internet), but also because Windows updates rarely ever brought visible improvements. I know a current Windows user and they don’t like updating too much due to the forced restarts and applying updates.
Also a majority of update issues I’ve had on Linux, to my knowledge were directly related to packaging. I typically wait and these are fixed, though my last problem was related to nvidia(+systemd) and took months before it was fixed (and a different problem preventing updates I just had to uninstall something and re-install it after updates).
It’s because of Arch BTW. haha. That shitty software breaks more than a old 240 cc Mercedes from '99.
