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    [–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't understand why Windows is on the "no" side of "do you fear technology?"

    [–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Well, the other side would be operating systems you can't really screw up too badly because they are locked down harder, so perhaps it's fear of the unknown?

    [–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    definitely this

    people buy macs for macos or Chromebooks for chrome os because "windows just sucks because it breaks all the time" mentality you always see on Twitter

    [–] balp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Or in the office, the hardware-software relations between the laptop and Windows and in some parts Linux are strained at best, where drivers, power management, and so on get crappy. E.g. after a year or two of updates, it gets out of control and nice things like hibernations don't work. It's usually a driver for some small thing you don't care about that forgot to read the Windows specification change and now it can't do that power handling in a good way. Oops the computer refuses to sleep and your bag is burning, your battery is 1% when picking the computer up again.

    [–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 3 points 11 months ago

    I completely understand that with windows, especially with hibernation like what the fuck is "windows modern standby"

    but with Linux, it depends on the distro you use.

    if you're using something such as Pop_OS, I can pretty much guarantee you you're never going to run into a power management issue or even a driver issue for that matter since its based off of Ubuntu and is very well supported.

    [–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Agree. Windows sucks ass. Most professional software developers I know use MacOS actually.

    [–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I'd give up half of my salary to use windows instead of macos for my dev work.

    [–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    That’s a lot of money, but same sentiment in the opposite. I would avoid any dev job requiring me to use Windows. Chances are they’re also using some crap tech stack too.

    [–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I've seen plenty shit stacks on macos tbf. Windows has better window management which saves a lot of time when you're juggling between seperate windows.