• Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    I have had to use windows for like the last two weeks and the taskbar crashes and freezes constantly so I put a bat file on my desktop that kills and reopens explorer.exe also if my bluetooth headphones disconnect while my mic is muted it refuses to unmute… I have to reboot. This is what people say is a “it just works” experience.

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      It’s so funny how you can crash the whole Windows desktop by mounting a network share, disconnecting from the network and trying to access it.

      Found that at a previous job where technicians would frequently connect and disconnect from networks. Also, it’s impossible to unmount such a share from explorer or PowerShell. Only the old CMD tool works

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      No one has more problems on windows than a linux-first user.

      Every thread like this has people that can’t seem to get windows to do the bare minimum, but I have yet to have a single hiccup in months. I don’t get it. This isn’t even a “linux bad” comment, I dual boot and enjoy my linux install as well, the only “problems” I have on there are from being new to linux.

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        I’m wondering if some of those issues are just simple annoyances that Windows users are used to putting up with. Because I had lots of those before switching to Linux that I didn’t think were fixable.

        The only time I had my windows install be completely unbootable was when dual booting. The rest was always an issue.

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        My work laptop with Windows 11 works OK for what I need it for, but I do have to fight it all of the time to get it to do shit. And it is also incredibly slow for no real reason.

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        That’s because all the people who don’t have issues, aren’t going to make comments about not having issues in a community that is basically dedicated to shitting on it(seriously, check top posts. It’s not “haha linux funny meme”, it’s “windows bad” over and over again).

        Even if they do make a commen,like you, they get downvoted by people who like to wallow in misery.

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      Other day I tried opening the command prompt on a windows server 2019 by hitting the start button and typing cmd. Waited for 20s before hitting win+r and running cmd.exe from there.

      Ws2k19 maybe dated, but wtf is up with that level of performance in searching? I mean if you can’t do it in a way approaching satisfactory, then why roll it out at all?

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      NO BECAUSE I’VE LITERALLY DONE THE SAME THING! For me it was on my desktop instead. But yeah. I don’t remember exactly why but it happened enough that I definitely had a bat file that just killed explorer.exe. iIf I’m remembering right it auto restarts.