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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just throwing more personal anecdotal story, I use Mint at home and Win10 at work. The amount of time something wonky happen at work, like Teams being Teams, or issues connecting to wifi, are much higher than at home.

The only time I've touch the command panel is when there's some obscure programs I wanna try out. I don't even know how to delete a file using the Command Panel without looking it up first.

Using Mint as an Internet machine, and even gaming in my case with Steam making it so much easier, I feel much less resistance with Mint compared to Win10. Win10 just hides everything away and I feel like I need to twist its arm just to maybe have it do things I want, and I just want to print something. Mint was literally just plug and print. Mint feels more like Win7 than Win10 ever did to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, this. It's very ironic, but with settings hidden God-knows-where and poor support for much of the advanced software, I find Windows way less polished and comfortable than Linux, despite many claiming the opposite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

People who claim the opposite either haven't tried a mainstream distro in several years or they work for Microsoft.