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What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.run 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just run stuff out-of-the-gate

Connect to WiFi properly in a Panera (ymmv, but this was my experience with 3 different Ubuntu-based distros)

Play pretty much any game (Proton has gotten us far but it's not the end-all-be-all)

Be usable without the command line at all (tried giving my GF Linux Mint, no it's not entirely usable without the command line, and I haven't found a distro that is)

*Run Nvidia flawlessly out-of-the-box

*Be backed up fully and easily (no, TimeShift is not easy, it's just easy for you after looking up documentation for a hot minute)

*Except immutable distros like Silverblue *I know Pop_OS! comes with Nvidia drivers before anyone says that, but it's the odd-one-out

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Run Nvidia flawlessly out-of-the-box

True, but that's more due to Nvidia's stubborn lack of interest than anything else.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's not just Nvidia, though... I tried running a popular vpn recently on Linux and was shocked to see it wasn't supported outside command line. This same vpn provider has an app for everything, even android TV and Roku of all things.

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Mullvad has a decent Linux GUI, but you have to install their service. On the positive side, it works with and without systemd.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just had a similar experience with Bitwarden. Works flawlessly on every device, but the linux vesion doesn't integrate with the browser (the app not the browser extension). I also had to do some special tinkering to make it accept self-hosted vaultwarden with self-signed certificate, because electron apps on linux don't use the internal's system trusted cert store ? Nah, you have to install certutil, and add it to a "sql database"... ⋮/

And i'm just starting as a linux power user, and it already begins to show why linux isn't "there" right now... But I don't see it as something bad, quite the opposite, linux is supposed to be flexible, open source, a playing ground for nerds... But people's desire to overcome GAFAMS monopoly slowly turns linux into something I hope won't hurt the community or make them part of GAFAM acronym...

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

I also had a similar experience with Nordvpn.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

That's one the commercial software providers, not Linux

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.run 5 points 10 months ago

True, I really do think Linus was right when he said "fuck Nvidia" but sadly it's still a point against Linux :(