Provide out-of-box ease of use on everyday devices operated by low-skilled users.
I mean, Linux technically could, but the incentive to push for this is not nearly as high as the commercial incentives of providing this experience using Windows. So unfortunately it currently can’t.
HDR support looks to be a ways off.
Spy on users
drivers for lots of printers. no fuss gpu drivers. zero computer knowledge required.
Get some people to write really passionately about moving off of it, apparently.
There needs to be an entire Lemmy community for all the testimonial posts.
Being intuitive.
On Windows, features are often a few clicks away from being enabled or modified. Software that you download also does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to changing your settings to what the program needs.
On the Linux distros that I’ve used, way too much setup is required via copying and pasting commands into the terminal. There were times when I completely replaced my path variables instead of appending to them, and that is way harder to do on Windows than Linux. Mistakes like that often lead me to installing a distro 3 times when doing a project, whereas Windows 11 rarely has those issues.
In what world does Windows have an intuitive, consistent UI/UX?
You just got used to the mess that Microsoft calls a “user experience”. Gnome and KDE are consistent platforms for their respective apps with Gnome having one of the most flushed out HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) of any desktop interface to make their DE in the most hands off/out of the way experience for you to focus on your tasks (subjective)
I would argue both have evolved in the opposite way though. Windows has become so unintuitive for me with every version after win 7. Splitting up control panel in many different locations. Multiple methods to remove different applications,… On windows server, it was even worse, and as soon as I moved away from Microsoft’s default built-in crap to third party tools, things actually became much easier.
While with Linux, things worked out of the box for me for a long time already and the process of things make sense a lot times, taking into account the requires minimal knowledge is there.
You just grew up using Windows and are used to its design language – that doesn’t make it inherently intuitive.
If you are fucking with path variables you’re already a power user. The settings for an OOTB Ubuntu or other user-friendly distro are pretty damn intuitive, and if you’re dealing with anything more complex, I personally would far rather use bash or other Linux shells than Powershell.
Literally everything easily with much less effort
Dealing with SSL on windows is a pain vs Linux
I mean install OpenSSL for windows and it’s exactly the same
Embed ads on your desktop.
Play games with kernal level anti cheat
Run professional software like fusion 360, Adobe suite and much more.
Use Wsl to get a lot of the benefits of linux
Fusion 360 actually works under Linux with Bottles. Some other Autodesk products also have native Linux versions.
