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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have a workaround. That's to forget Linux and stick with Windows. I prefer not to have to tryt o play games to get the software I want to use to work and it does. It just works.
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And Indesign just works for producing epubs, forget about editing html
I don't now how much you know about Linux (using Tux the Linux mascot as your avatar suggests some knowledge, although I can't see why you would recommend using Windows in that case), so maybe I should point out that Linux is just the kernel, what we usually mean by saying Linux is a distribution of the kernel and other software (distro for short), and often GNU/Linux is used to denote the desktop distros. Hence there's not really one Linux, for example the Kobo readers and android phones both use Linux.
On Manjaro, the distro I'm using, installation was easy, I just had to enter 6 commands into the terminal to get it working. I also figured out how to install it in Linux Mint in about 40 minutes, which isn't that bad considering I'm no Linux expert (only used it for 5 months) and I had to figure out some Mint specific stuff since I never used it before. I'll probably save more time than that in a year by having automatic updates of calibre.
So I wouldn't say this is a major reason favoring Windows, and there are also many good reasons some people prefer Linux. Personally I got fed up by the forced updates ruining things (luckily I dodged the 1809 update until it was fixed, which would probably have
deleted all my documents), having to use third party tools to disable all the telemetry and ads in the start menu after each update, and having less and less control over the system. Not that there's anything wrong with using Windows if that's what you like best of coarse, I still have it installed in case i want to play some games that doesn't work on Linux, but I have no need to use it for anything related to ebooks.