my personal opinion/rant:
windows is stuff, in general.
problem #1: windows is unstable.
a primary cause of this is because of 1 bullstuff: the kernel itself.
it's stuff, dos was okay until they needed to dump it, nt is a stuffstain kernel that with every passing update is becoming more and more unstable.
literally half of my bsod's were due to ntoskrnl.something.
whoever's updating the kernel is having strippers code it instead of him.
linux i never had an os crash on me once.
windows got me as follows:
xp 4 crashes > vista 2 crashes > 7 - 7 crashes. > 8 i never used it because i don't want to torture myself with crashes and a stuffty UI.
AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON HOW THERE'S A WINDOWS UPDATE EVERY DAY AND YOU HAVE TO RESTART EVERY TIME YOU INSTALL UPDATES!
and now problem #2:
drivers.
linux literally does a better job at handling drivers then windows itself, the same OS driver developers have priorities on.
the only driver that most linux OS's didn't automatically search for and install was the gpu drivers, which was painless also thanks to ubuntus proprietary gpu software installer it was a breeze.
windows i have to manually search for the drivers on the net, put them on another storage device/partition and install them one by one.
and don't say to have windows search online for drivers itself, even if i had manually installed network drivers it would still not find drivers for half of my stuff even though it's easily findable on the net.
problem #3: fragmenting (which will soon be obsolete due to ssd's, but that's about 5-10 years from now)
*sigh*
windows has this and linux does not, i don't need to explain this problem, moving on.
and now for linux issues since i'm going on:
problem linux #1: lack of games/apps
there's wine but that barely works so moving on.
problem linux # 2: battery eating friend.
use mac: get 11 or so hours of battery life on a 9 cell.
use windows: get 6 or so hours of battery life on a 9 cell.
use linux: get 3 or so hours of battery life on a 9 cell.
this can be fixed in a kernel update and i don't go outside often so this isn't too big for me.
problem #3 ubuntu specific: fdisk disaster.
oh boohoo i booted up ubuntu 25 times i don't wanna loving scan my HDD, just start me up and only scan after a failed shutdown.
/rant in general.
i'll switch over to linux when garry's mod, cs:go and league of legends are ported over.
as a user of both linux and windows in general, i certify that using windows makes peoples lives 20% more bullstuff.
