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> Stop defending the state of Linux in personal computing.

You seem to be placing the blame with the OS itself instead on the poor stance that hardware vendors have towards releasing proper drivers. It's true that the ecosystem has its own problems, but hardware not being compatible out of the box is not one of them. That's something the can be blamed fully on the vendors in my opinion.

>>marius+(OP)
As a Linux user it's important to understand that people don't care whose fault it is- they want to use their computer. I can respect that.

>>2OEH8e+i1
If one feels like they have an opinion to give on the matter I would imagine they invest at least a modicum of reflection on the subject.

>>2OEH8e+i1
This sounds sensible until you realize that "use the computer" on windows means to use it in the extremely restrictive way that microsoft has blessed.

>>topaz0+9x
What restrictions? You don't have the OS source code, but you can write device drivers, and you can use the computer any way you want to.

I don't like Windows, but that statement seems incorrect.

>>theone+Gz
Oh yeah? In Windows 11, try to put the taskbar on the top of your screen.

Try to uninstall Edge. Try to disable ALL of the tracking. Try to disable updates. Try to install it from scratch onto a computer without creating a Microsoft account. Try to remove all of the non-windows mandatory apps without a 3rd party software or a cheat code to run in powershell that you got from some website somewhere.

Windows is user-hostile because in order for it to maintain its business dominance it HAS to treat all of its users as if they are naturally stupid and technically challenged in order to ensure that the most people possible can use their software so that the most businesses will buy their software since their employees can use it.