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Originally Posted by BWinmill
A lot of those support demands are created by how Linux users end up using Windows, which makes Windows seem more problematic than it actually is.
One thing that makes Windows look bad from the perspective of a Linux user who dual boots is the system update process.
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Since I don't dual-boot (or use Windows in a virtual machine) and since none of my kids or my wife use Linux at all -- this doesn't really apply to me.
These are the kind of things that drive me nuts on Windows. I have a network printer/scanner and have been using it for a couple years on WiFi. Since the printer is now near my main router I figured I would just connect it via an Ethernet cable and disable WiFi. I kept the same static IP address, just changed how it connected to the router from WiFi to Ethernet. I tested it on my Linux Mint computer -- no issues. Job done ... or so I thought. Windows 7 didn't like it and wouldn't print. Why? I have
NO idea. So I tried changing the port in the printer driver -- two or three times. Even though the IP address was right, the printer would not work? I finally downloaded the printer driver and reloaded the whole thing again ... which (since Windows' printers are huge for some reason) took about 45 minutes. Then I had to re-download the bundled OCR software (PaperPort) because changing the printer driver somehow confused
that software. I'm just getting too old for this crap. That's why I like the straight forward simplicity of Linux. I'm trying to get my kids to work on the Windows computers -- I don't need the aggravation.