>>247156
>>247242
>In my case my laptops are stuck with W10 and I don't feel like dealing with the problems that installing Linux would give me; I still support those who would use Linux out of principle, but I'm not gonna switch over myself until I know its not a fucked user experience anymore. (aka seeing people who complain about the massive problems they experience after switching over, and the fact that loonix-related threads are still mostly troubleshooting)
I'm in the same boat, I really wish to switch to Linux (I have an older one that runs Mint and I used it for programming and niche tools like ddrescue). My problems are as follows:
-Having installe W7 on a Laptop from the same manufacturer, I can tell you that most of the shit lacks drivers or runs on the default ones, with no option to install newer ones. This means that certain components are permanently disabled (i.e. Bluetooth and Touchpad), or don't work correctly with any OS that isn't Winbloats1X. I had installed Mint on it as well and there were several issues just like that, for example I could not use the Nvidia graphic card
I forgot the reason, it just wouldn't work with anything;
-It's hard to troubleshoot issues. Granted, W7 and the other ones are also rather fucked when it comes to customer service or finding the right solution to your problem, but the time required to fix something on a Winbloats is much lower than the time required to even describe the problem on a distro;
-I've heard the suggestion most people make about programs that don't run natively on Linux: install Wine or Virtual Machine and run them through Windows. Makes sense, but the problem is that you truly cannot make a complete switch from one OS to the other, when that was supposed to be the goal to begin with;
-Most jobs I've taken require one of the two mainline OS for retarded legacy or contractual reasons. It means I'd have to keep a dual boot with an OS I'd only use for niche situations, severely limiting my drive's space (granted, I used to bypass this by having an USB pen with a distro pre-installed, but it's not the best of solutions);
-It's a constant struggle to learn new things. Mind you, I like having more direct control on the OS, the problem is that I really don't feel like wasting hours just to learn a single way that will only work with a specific configuration and OS to do, I don't know, image manipulation, when I can just install a cracked copy of Photoshop on a doctored Winbloats and be done and over;
-It's hard to find a community for Linux that is as helpful as friendly. The majority of the world runs on proprietary software, so you don't really need to find
a community, but different distros have different architectures and people working on them. People that at some point will drop the project and either fork it or join a completely different one. It's really not worth following them for a GENERAL USE OS. Now, for a SPECIFIC USE OS, yeah, I think it'd be a cool thing to learn.
>>247262
>>247264
Man, The Critic is so underrated. I guess Family Guy won in the end because you had to have some general knowledge of the film industry and actually pay attention to the gags to have fun.