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0 pointscausi4y ago0 comments

I've dual-booted Linux for many years now but I can never get fully comfortable. I always get the creeping sensation that there's too many layers between what I'm seeing and what the computer is doing, like some button will just stop working and there's no way for me to ever figure out why, or I'll hit some truly baffling design choice and the only way to change it is to throw out my whole configuration and use a different distro.

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larrik4y ago

I feel that way after being on OSX for a year. At least on Linux you can access the magical underpinnings. OSX and Windows have all the same problems to me and far less ability to fix them.

Underphil4y ago

Yep. Every OS has abstractions, but with Windows you can't see them. It works great 99.9% of the time but the 0.1% leaves you high and dry.

progman324y ago

I get that feeling with Windows, especially with the "tweaks" such as this one MS likes to do as of late. Can't say I like computers these days.

selfhoster114y ago

Windows feels similarly, but it's more that the OS contains a malevolent presence that's watching your every move and waiting for you to slip up. All so it can steal a little bit more of your sanity/privacy by exposing yet another bit of data, or restricting yet another option, or resetting yet another default until you're tired of changing it and leave it on factory settings.

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