Would love to see someone who spent 30 years on Windows spend a week on Linux...oh boy..
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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We have seen that a lot. It often ends with an article a lot like this.
That said, many, maybe even most Linux users started Windows users first. So, not everyone writes a snarky article and goes back.
I think a Windows user that is adventurous enough to try Linux is more likely to be pragmatic and open minded about it. They can push through basic issues like the ones raised in this article to get to the real experience underneath. Many of them like what they find enough to stick around.
But we get our fair share Linux sucks articles that are not better than this one.
This feels like an article for non-tech Linux users who hate Windows and want their bias confirmed.
Ok, that's what it felt like
To me, it felt like an obvious imitation of the myriad of articles that often have someone try Linux out, shortly, and then – often with obvious not understanding or just a surface level insight – proudly and definitively stating (or, at least, subtextually implying) that Linux was interesting but clearly not ready to be a Real™ operating system, etc.
But it seems most didn't read it as that, either.
Ah, maybe! I don't have much experience with those kinds of article. If so, it probably nailed the tone such that I fell for it lmao
I hate that there is an adverisement for another article every second sentence.
Please just let me read the article in peace and put related stuff below.
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