The difference between Linux and Windows is that in Linux I have never encountered any problem that I could not solve, in the worst case, when all else failed, by reading many source files of the offending programs, while on Windows I have encountered many cases of unsolvable problems, for which not only I was unable to find a solution (even if I have a lot of professional experience with all Windows versions since 3.0 till present) but also nobody else from IT support.
Just to give a recent example, 3 different IT support people, from 3 different countries, have worked one day each, trying to discover why MS Teams does not work on a certain new Dell laptop, while it works fine if you move the Ethernet cable to the old laptop. After many efforts, nobody has any clue.
Such things cannot happen on Linux.
> doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows.
Yeah, but the difference is that Linux is MY dumpster fire, not Microsoft's!
fair point. counter-argument: i'll start modifying my C:\Windows directory and make it my own dumpster fire.
This is a false equivalence.
doesn't matter that pretty much all software is a dumpster fire, and linux is just another, less hot dumpster fire compared to windows.