Most issues are a maintainers issue. Rarely is the issue in Linux itself. Most of the issues are in userland.
Yes. All OS have bugs, and yes, we are used to doing workarounds for windows too. But most of the time, that workaround is fishing for a setting in an obscure menu with a Windows7 UI. But it is still a GUI. If you read the labels of the buttons you can navigate the menus to reach the button you want to press.
I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That’s on my PC, I don’t work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.
The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn’t. Of course it’s going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it’s incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.
The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.
We also know those windows workarounds because GUIs are way more discoverable than terminal commands.
GUIs act like trees. If you don’t care about the “personalization” branch of the menus, you just don’t click on it.
Terminals act like lists. You do ls /usr/bin you’ll just get shown hundreds of binaries. Which are not categorized in any way. Only when you know which binary solves your issue you can read the man and get something that hopefully resembles a tree, with headings of different levels.
I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That’s on my PC, I don’t work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.
I have edited the registry a lot when I last used Windows when I used it last a few years ago, and even had to do it for the other employees while maintaining their PC.
The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn’t. Of course it’s going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it’s incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.
The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.
And you can do the same with the GUI on Linux. However, since the GUI is mostly just a wrapper around Linux CLI cmds, it’s a lot faster to fix issues from the terminal.
Linux was used mostly by power users a few years ago, and they tend to use the CLI a lot more. Thus the knowledge they have and share is the one they know, the CLI. Hell, when I have to use Windows, I will use thr CLI unless I absolutely have to use the GUI.
And that’s the knowledge that is usually shared because regardless of which distro/desktop environment you use, the CLI is consistent across the distro.
But Linux has come a long way and many issues can be corrected through the GUI
Most issues are a maintainers issue. Rarely is the issue in Linux itself. Most of the issues are in userland.
Yes. All OS have bugs, and yes, we are used to doing workarounds for windows too. But most of the time, that workaround is fishing for a setting in an obscure menu with a Windows7 UI. But it is still a GUI. If you read the labels of the buttons you can navigate the menus to reach the button you want to press.
I have never ever had to edit the registry to fix an issue. I have maybe edited the registry 10 times in my whole life, most of the time it was to customize beyond what the GUI offers, not to fix a bug. That’s on my PC, I don’t work in IT for a company. Maybe company management requires more extensive use of the registry.
The whole point of my comment is not that Linux breaks constantly while windows doesn’t. Of course it’s going to break more often, since there is an uncountable different Linux configurations, it’s incredibly more complex than having 2-3 versions of windows to maintain.
The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.
We also know those windows workarounds because GUIs are way more discoverable than terminal commands.
GUIs act like trees. If you don’t care about the “personalization” branch of the menus, you just don’t click on it.
Terminals act like lists. You do
ls /usr/binyou’ll just get shown hundreds of binaries. Which are not categorized in any way. Only when you know which binary solves your issue you can read the man and get something that hopefully resembles a tree, with headings of different levels.I have edited the registry a lot when I last used Windows when I used it last a few years ago, and even had to do it for the other employees while maintaining their PC.
The point is that you can fix most issues on windows with the GUI, while on Linux you have to use the terminal most of the times.
And you can do the same with the GUI on Linux. However, since the GUI is mostly just a wrapper around Linux CLI cmds, it’s a lot faster to fix issues from the terminal.
Linux was used mostly by power users a few years ago, and they tend to use the CLI a lot more. Thus the knowledge they have and share is the one they know, the CLI. Hell, when I have to use Windows, I will use thr CLI unless I absolutely have to use the GUI.
And that’s the knowledge that is usually shared because regardless of which distro/desktop environment you use, the CLI is consistent across the distro.
But Linux has come a long way and many issues can be corrected through the GUI