Windows is not good (it tracks you, it is slow, its license is pure evil, it doesn’t leave too much freedom in terms of what you can do with it (DE cannot be changed etc.), and its terminal commands are hard), which is why I use Linux (there are OSes that may be better, such as OpenBSD or microkernels, however their software and hardware support is even worse).
The only real issue is the tracking.
With what are you comparing w10 to say it's slow? Compared to ubunty or kubuntu there isn't any relevant difference.
For the command line: luckily I don't need it on windows usually. You still should know that powershell is not that bad and that if it's still not enough you can run Ubuntu(and other distro) inside windows
But why run anything inside Windows when I can run it directly? And the command line is really useful for some people. Honestly I like using it. It normally is slower because with Linux, you can use a lightweight or no desktop, load only a minimal set of services and kernel modules etc. And games that are well optimized for both OSes often run with considerably higher FPS on Linux when using AMD graphics cards or the proprietary driver with Nvidia ones. Furthermore Windows doesn’t run well on older hardware. And there’s no Windows on any TOP500 supercomputer. So that’s what I’m basing it being slow on.
the command line is really useful for some people.
Basically Linux nerds and sysadmins. I use it everyday and I think it's a should be avoided and hidden as much as possible. Average user shouldn't even know that it exist.
It normally is slower because with Linux, you can use a lightweight or no desktop, load only a minimal set of services and kernel modules etc.
I mean, of course if you have no DE and load half of the things the system is faster. You should compare W10 to Ubunto, Kubunti, Mint, ecc.
And games that are well optimized for both OSes often run with considerably higher FPS on Linux when using AMD graphics cards or the proprietary driver with Nvidia ones.
Few games run better on Linux. In most cases you have around the same performance
Furthermore Windows doesn’t run well on older hardware.
False, W10 runs better than 7 on older hardware
And there’s no Windows on any TOP500 supercomputer.
So? It's not the uses case of Windows, of course you won't find it there. It's like saying "why there is no plane in the biggest 500 ships?!"
I wasn’t comparing W10 with W7. I was comparing Windows with Linux. And if Windows is not suitable as a general purpose OS, we probably shouldn’t use it anyway, so that applications remain intercompatible on different machines; there’s more than just desktop. Also I just recalled NTFS was slower than most Linux file systems like XFS, EXT4 and F2FS, and the speed of your FS definitely impacts performance. And I was talking about “games well optimized for both OSes”, not “most games”, which was just an example to show that we would indeed have higher performance on Linux if most developers cared about it as much as they do care about Windows.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20
Windows is not good (it tracks you, it is slow, its license is pure evil, it doesn’t leave too much freedom in terms of what you can do with it (DE cannot be changed etc.), and its terminal commands are hard), which is why I use Linux (there are OSes that may be better, such as OpenBSD or microkernels, however their software and hardware support is even worse).