5 Honest Reasons to Avoid Switching to Linux

johnklos · on Jan 21, 2022

Ah, yes - the two operating systems - Linux and Windows. There are no other OSes.

This feels more like clickbait than anything else, unless we're to believe that Windows developers, Windows sysadmins and gamers don't already know these things.

faisal_ksa · on Jan 21, 2022

To be honest, I think the point of the article is to list some of the reason way Linux is not for average users. And they talk about Windows since it's the most used desktop OS.

Hopefully one day Linux would be the goto desktop OS.

simonblack · on Jan 22, 2022

Hopefully one day Linux would be the goto desktop OS.

It is. For me, anyway. Who cares what the next person is using? That's their problem, and none of my business at all.

mattl · on Jan 21, 2022

"Things on Linux are done in a different way than on Windows, for example:

Software does not come from the random Internet"

Windows has an App Store, right?

faisal_ksa · on Jan 21, 2022

And now windows has a packages manager "winget" [1].

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

mattl · on Jan 21, 2022

I've barely used Windows but I understand that things are signed so when a user installs a package it's signed and they need to be an administrator to install it.