Did you completely miss the part where I said “Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution”? I don’t know what you think the usual troubleshooting process is, but it doesn’t start with “uninstall Windows”. Obviously the user was sufficiently intelligent to consider the advantages and disadvantages of switching, and based on that information, chose a course of action that they thought was correct, and it ended up being the solution to their issue.

I don’t know how else I can spell it out for you. Computer users are not dumbasses. They have agency over their own actions.

Are they still experiencing whatever problem they were having?

No? Then it is a solution. Not the solution, and not a possible solution for everyone, but it is a solution.

There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.

The regular computer user who just needs their apps to run won’t likely make the effort to enter an entirely new ecosystem as long as those apps run. Even with the most user-friendly distros, the barrier of entry is still high. And when their apps break? They’ll reinstall Windows or pay someone else to fix it.

I love shitting on Microsoft as much as the next penguin, but they’re not idiots. Even if some of their decisions are questionable, Windows is still a major part of their business, and they won’t just let it degrade to a point where Linux converts are a significant threat to their profit.

(I did not downvote you, by the way, that was someone else)

Games actually provide lots of debugging information, but not in an easily accessible manner. It is usually printed to stdout or stderr, which is to say, to a terminal output, and you’ll only see it if the game executable is launched from a terminal or the outputs are redirected to a file.

the only way that’s going to keep Microsoft on top in the long term.

You underestimate the complacency of the masses.

Bring Me The Horizon: “CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?”

Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn’t

Not within the computer’s lifetime. Consumer-grade SSDs are generally rated for 3000-5000 write cycles or more, and contain some kind of wear levelling mechanism to distribute write operations over the entire physical medium to reduce the chance of individual block failures. The first SSD I ever bought is still going strong as my server’s root filesystem.

That bar is so low it’s practically a tripping hazard in hell.

Some people seem to get off on calling others mentally challenged for freely made choices that they disagree with. This comic mocks them.

Sounds like a vote in favor of the headphone jack.

Some sort of hidden, concealed, clandestine internal QoS implementation in Windows. Reserving a portion of network bandwidth for high priority traffic sounds like a good concept, but I don’t like the fact that this is so hidden (I’ve been working with computers for many years and I’ve never heard of it until now), and that the mechanism to determine the priority of a packet is unknown.