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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by xtracto on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:01AM (#27661355)
I use Linux in my main PC, both to work on programming and to play games. I've been familiar with Linux and using it on an off for more th as n 15 years.

Nevertheless, my days of advocating for others to use it are over (I even used to frequent comp.linux.advocacy!). People that are used to Windows will have a very hard time moving away of it. No matter how easy the migration path, there will always be something painful. The path of least resistance will always be running Windows. And in addition even the most polished Linux versions have issues. I've run them all. They are nice, but once you get into an obscure singular case, the console dance start. Wifi, sound, bluethoot, video, media-keyboard or mouse, fingerprint reader. There's always something.

We People who have been using linux for years are already used to it: google for a couple of minutes, open the terminal and copy/paste a bunch of commands. Sometimes it works, other times we compromise by not using that feature that doesn't work.

For people used to Windows this is very painful.

Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by xtracto on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:13AM (#27662983)
Just as an example of something that happened to me just today: I wanted to connect 2 monitors to my linux Home PC: 1 in the Nvidia GPU HDMI and another one in the integrated Intel HDMI. It doesn't work out of the box, and it is apparently not possible, at least not without thinkering with the BIOS and some config files (and the main response returned by google https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=265946 doesn't work).

So yeah, I can imagine how people coming from windows might be frustrated with that.

Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by vel0city on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:31PM (#27665722)
Meanwhile on Windows, the setup for that is:

* Plug in monitor 1

* Plug in monitor 2