C'mon man, if you're gonna troll at least put some effort in
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
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free if you know where to look
are you suggesting a benefit of windows is you can “illegally” get a copy and install it? instead of actually free linux distro?
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'extremely stable and never crashes'
Wow, ragebait much? LOL!
Laughs in Penguin accent 😂🤣🐧
Yeah, this is some of the laziest "ragebait" I've ever seen...
The most shocking /surprising thing i found using linux so far is that you can hit the system button, whatever thing, type something in the search bar and it just finds it. It doesn't ask copilot, it doesn't show bing results, it shows a real file that is on my computer.
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Anywhere but lemmy, this wouldn't be unpopular ;)
I don't agree with the opinion, having recently been forced to do shit on Windows 11 and ran into so many issues because of microsoft that it was infuriating. Since Microsoft insists on baking in their bullshit and making it hassle to navigate around, I say that that is also a flaw in windows.
But I used to mostly like windows. Win7 in particular fit my needs as well or better at the time than mu current distro of choice does now.
I will add the caveat that before proton, that was less true because gaming sucked on linux for me before proton happened. But almost everything else was better, so I sucked it up for daily driving and only used win7 for gaming and music management/listening.
Now, I only use my win7 install for musicbee. I mean, I do use it for other things while it's booted up, but I dunno if solitaire is a relevant use for this discussion lol.
I'll also say that, depending on distro, linux can be a pain in the ass to some degree or another, even after the learning curve is handled. Not worse than windows, just in slightly different ways (wifi issues in particular can be a bitch to handle)
Have you tried AisleRiot Solitaire?
I have not!
My current preference for S̵o̵l̵i̵t̵a̵i̵r̵e̵ (Freecell) tho there are plenty of alternative *nix versions.
Edit: Personalized my comment a bit more so it reflected some of my personal experiences. As I kneejerk reactioned hard initially.
ROFL This reads like rage bait and delusion to be perfectly honest...As most of this post is at least true for Windows 10, but not 11 (which is a vibe coded and LLM stuffed nightmare). I always found that tweaking the registry was something to do only when there was no other choice, as it could cause more harm than good at times. Local Policy is a step up from that on Pro Version, enjoyed tweaking my system that way. Microsoft Forums is a community, and AI is a gassed up LLM (which can hallucinate and tell you lies while sounding correct).
This makes me chuckle and snort, while enjoying openSUSE Tumbleweed without worry!
LOLz in Windows XP registry, I've got a little over half a megabyte of custom registry tweaks that I've carefully crafted for Windows XP systems, to streamline it to the max, lock it down and make it about as private as humanly possible. Almost a whole megabyte if you count my MicroXP specific tweaks.
I even made sure to disable Terminal Services, Background Intelligent Transfer Services, Automatic Updates, File and Printer Sharing, and basically any useless service that anyone in their sane mind should disable if still using XP for whatever reason (mostly virtual machine use here).
Anything past XP in a VM for legacy software, I'm running Linux Mint MATE as my actual daily runner.
Still funny you'd say that seasoned Windows users never tweak the registry, I ate it up and spit out the whole system configuration the way I wanted.
Well, XP was generally less complex, and rarely had any problems in my opinion. I personally think registry edits got riskier past XP up until 10...When it became a bigger gamble (especially using Vista,7,8).
I opted for Pro version and local policy was the safer option. I guess my experience was WAY different. Could be hardware or a few mistyped entries, little bit of both, I suppose.
My basic registry philosophy, aside from the obvious do a lotta fuckin research was to track all the default settings, configure everything the way I want, and save all the registry values for the settings I changed.
My bigger registry philosophy was to research all the possible values under major registry keys, even hidden ones not available as any convenient Control Panel GUI option. Configure all that to my liking as well, and backup my entire configuration. Well, whatever differs from defaults anyways.
Then, whenever I'd install XP on another system, I could just import a small handful of registry files and have 99.9℅ of everything already configured my way.
I could easily merge all that into a single registry file, but I broke it down into major basic categories, like Interface, Services, etc..
I certainly tried my best with the research part and often succeeded on XP more than any other Windows version. I think it was a bit overwhelming for me at the time because I somewhat understood computers, needed human language to demystify the kind computers could use for specific modifications and tasks. I am starting to reach that point with Linux, I didn't get there 100% with Windows, knew just enough to get by.
Yeah, not having registry edits is like not modifying config files on a Linux based OS, possible but you might as well be using a Chromebook
I find config files to be the safest thing to modify because the results are often predictable and don't cause my heart rate to increase.
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Using Windows means giving my data for pedophiles to monetiza so no, thanks.
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Extremely stable and never crashes
I mean, sure... If you just let it sit there doing nothing. 🤷♂️
i do use it and it still doesnt crash
Linux runs all apps for Linux and many apps for windows. Windows doesn't run any Linux apps.
KDE has a beautiful interface that both lets you customize damn near everything and doesn't push ads in the OS.
Linux doesn't need antivirus in the same way Windows does because it's inherently more secure and a smaller attack vector.
Linux is free, and your point about pirating Windows is dumb AF. It's $120 for the base version legally.
Linux runs almost every game that doesn't have kernel level anti cheat malware with proton.
Linux supports more hardware than MS by far. Try running a 10 year old CPU on windows 11. Nvidia isn't ideal on Linux, but it also works and updates are built in with kernel updates. Bonus, you can cherry pick updates if desired.
The Arch wiki is better than anything MS has to offer in regards to documentation and there are forums everywhere for help, with real people, not copilot generated slop. Each major distro, which means you have options, also has well developed forums and support.
As mentioned, Linux also has backwards compatibility, but better.
I run Arch and also never crash, and that's one of the most "unstable" distros out there. Something like Debian makes Windows look like a beta project.
Your arguments sound like they are from someone that's never used Linux, only read aged forum posts, and has to rely on piracy as positive note.
Extra bonuses for Linux is that it's faster by almost every metric, a fraction of the size and resource consumption, actually free, not shoving AI shit into it, truly customizable at every level, and doesn't steal all of your private information.
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Windows is bloat ware with a corporate coat of paint, older games will require a bit of work to get working so also fits backwards compatibility issues and "extremely stable and never crashes"? BSOD is only a Windows exclusive and Windows doesn't need community support because why would anyone have fun helping a multi billion dollar company, while Linux can be work and a hobby.
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An actually unpopular opinion? gasp
grab yer pitchforks! -----E
*golf clap*
Another totally real account being created just to post this? Got to love fake engagement farming.
I really, really, really love windows. Especially the huge ones in my office that I get to look out of while happily using my Linux computer. Just, love, those, windows!
*everything crashes
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