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Originally Posted by haertig
Luckily, Windows does indeed work for most people. Yes, you have to deal with viruses and malware and updates and rebooting frequently and driver issues and having to throw a ridiculous amount of hardware at it to keep it running above a snails pace.
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It's not 1995 any longer. All that stuff is FUD. The reason you might hear about malware on Windows is because that is what everyone uses. Mac and even Linux do have malware. You just hear about it less because it impacts far fewer people. Same goes for updates breaking things and everything else you mentioned.
Your average user running Windows 10 or 11 will never have a malware issue, same as your average Mac or Linux user.
I'm not anti-Linux. I like it quite a bit and it has made big strides since the days of Ubuntu 08.04 and GNOME 2. The problem is, as Linux has improved, so has Windows. And while there are some great Linux programs (Libre Office, Calibre, etc.), they tend to be ported over to Windows. But there are plenty of Windows programs (K4PC for instance, many computer games) that are not ported to Linux and are finicky to get working with WINE. So for an average user (like me) what is the appeal of dumping what came installed on my computer and continues to work for something that works, but is less robust?
I tried Wine with K4PC 1.17, tried letting Wine Tricks install 1.16 and tried Play on Linux. None worked for me, but on all my Windows PCs, it is a set it and forget it thing.