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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

They ALL require some heady maintenance, they all WILL run into issues more than Windows or OSX, they WILL require a lot more learning than Windows or OSX,

You will run into issues with any computer. OSX is the worst of them all, it drives me crazy.

It is somewhat hardware dependent that is for sure. My cheap $400 new laptop is perfect. There is nothing to do, for over two years now. Everything just works. The gaming laptop on the other hand has a slight lag on audio that I had to do some work with due to a hardware device that wants to sleep when there is no input.

In general though: for all the time wasted waiting for windows to actually do things, and for all the stupid shit windows pulls that I have to fix, I use Linux because it is the most reliable and stable. By far. I need it to be able to get to work, where I remote in and manage windows machines that are a pain in the ass.