Challenge: Name one thing windows is better at, than Linux!

getting people to use it

BSOD'ing

Oh. That's easy!
• Crashing
• Old age (Dying without regular reboots)
• Arbitrary sudden reboots
• Memory fracturing
• Introducing new OS bugs
• Gaming and graphics support
• Pissing me off

@ryanmhoffman
That’s not really fair. Linux does a good job at kernel panics and grub failures.

@C0D4 haven't had one of those in a long long time, thanks for the reminder that they do exist :O.

Running windows applications.

gaming
getting 3rd party support
supporting visual software
having an ecosystem
working out of the box
does not make you go bald if you use it as one user
making sure your system is always up to date and there are no security issues

Being installed by default in most of the computers in the market...

Gaming
Bring supported by companies
Security for the basic user
WiFi

I'm a Linux fanboy too, but let's not get too out of hand with our hatred. Windows is a well-made OS. I'm kinda tired if the fanboying.

Terminating users' applications without their permission

decent driver support ;-)

@ItsNotMyFault wine does a heck of a good job now days. Even overwatch *runs* (not great yet lol) on wine.

@BindView you tryna tell me that windows randomly shutting down itself after I forgot to save in Photoshop for 2 hours is a good thing?

@Dacexi hah. Wine has only gotten worse for me since Windows 7.

@iam13islucky why I run Linux on all my computers :p

@Dacexi huh? That doesn't make wine any better at it's job

Running Adobe software 😢

@Dacexi not a good thing, but clicking 'skip' on setting active hours is not windows' fault

@BindView it didn't let me set active hours for more than 12h tho.

@iam13islucky oh sorry, misread your comment. Wine has only gotten better for me. A bit more libraries i need to install with certain programs but for studio and Photoshop cs6 work exactly like on windows for me.

Run more games

Multimedia, proprietary drivers, works out of the box on most consumer configs

@AlgoRythm @BindView @Ashkin he said ONE thing. You broke the rules...

@ryanmhoffman he didn't say only one, no rules were broke. No need to be a pedant

@iam13islucky sarcasm doesn't translate well I guess. But he does specify "name one thing".

@liammartens as a half designer, this is the real thing that pulling me back to Windows.

Internet download manager and games

UX

Window management and Desktop Environment. But that's a really biased opinion.

Still prefer Windows UI over Gnome and KDE. Only *nix DE that's won me over is Budgie.

Blue screen of death :D

@LicensedCrime Oh how much I wish you were right...
@Ashkin 👌❤︎

Hands down Gaming !!

@Dacexi you said it yourself, it runs but not great.

Until games devs take Linux more seriously, Windows will always be the go-to OS for gamers.

@Dacexi my Photoshop saves a recovery image every 10 min or so...

Gaming, stable video output (seriously, tearing in every video?!), usability, support for non tech users, support for programs. In some cases Windows IS better than linux. Good luck cutting a video on linux or playing GTA Online.

@vortexman100
Wayland fixes the screen tearing for the most part, too bad that's 5 years away

Hibernating without crashing randomly 30% of the time...

Adding useless games/apps on every boot

Only thing I will miss if I switch is Visual Studio

@kwilliams yeah but the impressive thing is that they got it working. Porting dx11 to openGL is no small task.

Sadly video editing :(

Incompatibility

Spying on you

Comments in here looks like Eulogy for Windows !!

More games for Windows.

@LicensedCrime Oh I've known a to the fucking Max windows fanboy, not on devRant though 😷

@linuxxx Parse error

Well I would, but I need to know what's in it for me on winning this challenge?

(I have my priorities)

You can't benefit off of me slacking off my work on DevRant. Only I can do that (or I wish).