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Stability? Update management? Window tiling? What? Linux does have all of these things. In fact Linux is way more stable than Windows, has better update management. Mind you, it does depend on the distro and the amount of stability you want, but I have been running Debian servers for years and I hardly run into problems.
The only thing windows offers over Linux is gaming and a better UI. Even both of those are dwindling away. I hate the new windows 11 UI and most games work on Linux unless you require a rootkit for some anti cheat software.
No.
I install Windows and forget about it. I install Linux and have to do all this, and then it still might do this or this.
Agreed.
I want all the stability.
Not talking about servers.
But even then - at my last job we finally killed off a Windows Server that had an uptime of over 1000 days, just chugging along like a little trooper. At my previous-previous job I was responsible for the WinServer updates, every single one of them was getting monthly updates and reboots, didn't have a single issue in 7 years. It was just shy of 100 servers.
Agreed. I have Garuda Linux installed on my gaming PC and only had minor issues with three titles. It's surprisingly frictionless.
The most frustrating part of running Linux for me is the experience can vary so much for each person, slight hardware differences can cause odd bugs that other people don't have, and solving them can be really time consuming because a fix that works for one distro or DE may not work on another.
I'm really happy that Bazzite seems to be gaining so much popularity as an actual windows replacement, because it makes it a lot easier to find fixes for problems if there's a huge community using the exact same distro.