Idk. I have a windows pc my work gave me, and the battery shits the bed constantly. I don’t even know were to begin troubleshooting the issue. I put in an ubuntu partition as an experiment, and the battery suddenly had a decent lifespan. I have my own linux laptop, so the partition was redundant and I ended up wiping it.
My partner also has a windows laptop and it has it’s own weird issues. The start menu search frequently can’t find programs she has installed, or takes up to 10 seconds to even show a result. This isn’t an old laptop, nor a particularly underpowered one. She also has issue with certain browsers on her work’s vpn, and troubleshooting via remote desktop has caused her issues as well. In both those situations she borrowed a linux laptop from me and her work’s IT department was able to figure it out pretty quickly. Some of it has since been solved but once in a while it still comes up. (they had no RDP solution for linux but the VPN info she was given worked, which got her up and running)
I’m sure someone more experienced with windows would just be able to fix these issues with a registry edit or something, but I have no idea where to begin. I have lots of respect for windows admins because it all feels like black magic to me. At least on linux you can google for solutions.
I also find the gui(s) on linux to be less buggy, more performant, more logical, and more consistent that the windows UI. I’m sure if I were more experience I could make some tweaks and get Linux-quality performance, but the bugs and inconsistency are still rough when you are used to Linux’s simplicity.
That’s my take anyway. I think the biggest thing is that knowledge and confidence smooths over a lot of issues, and that applies both ways. It seems like you have a lot of Windows experience that you can lean on and that’s great.
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