Re: The problem With Windows

On 2024-03-21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:47:25 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
>

To be honest though, the kind of person who isn't interested in solving
problems, is probably not going to get much out of Linux.

>
Windows is starting to require way too much in the form of “solving
problems”. This one
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/12/microsoft_update_for_bitlocker_vuln/>,
where you actually have to resort to typing at the *command line*,
really takes the cake.
>
That’s why they say, Windows is a great OS--if your time is worth
nothing.

Windows problems are hard to solve, often because its hard to see what
is going on, there is little diagnostic information and the system is
opaque.  With Linux, Ive generally only gotten stuck because I've
struggled to find out how the components interact (for example, one
upgrade of Fedora broke my Display Manager, LightDM, it just wouldn't
start).  I eventually, somehow found it was due to a misconfigured
/etc/environment (I think). Not sure how I found that out, but it
broke something that ran on PAM which broke lightdm or other.  Point
is I was able to fix it, but with Windows, at least when I used it,
the problems I had just broke the system completely.

I think baving the command line in windows to fix it is an
improvement, its better than not being able to fix things at all.