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[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Multiple screen RDP support. It is the only thing keeping me on Windows for my personal desktop. I RDP into my work laptop from my desktop so I can have all 4 of my monitors, but keep my systems separate.

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[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

ITT: Many legitimate use-cases, and people shitting all over them.

This highlights one thing that Windows undoubtedly does better, and that's community support. With Windows and OSX things tend to just work, or to have limitations that people just accept. Linux becomes a lifestyle, when some people just want a tool that does a thing.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Have the Year of the Windows Desktop.

[–] AzureInfinity@leminal.space 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Linux lacks GUI configuration tools for many things, you have to edit text files often using guidance for obsolete versions of software and hope it works. Every single config file can have thousands of lines and if you wrote something wrong it will crash or start acting weirdly, very fragile design. GUI config tools mostly allow valid inputs like checkbox true/false and complain if the path isn't valid.

Edit: to clarify, i'm exclusively using linux since 2008 and i'm not 'afraid of editing config files', downvoting me doesn't fix the problem. I'm also not fond of fixing your header files for them to compile.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 10 months ago

These things exist for windows as well but they are not accessible. Linux is a car without the plastic hood over the motor. Its not dumbed down.

Does that make it hard to see the three things a noob should touch? Yes.

But there are linux distros that take care of this so this comment isn’t correct.

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