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    Windows VS Linux (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by trespasser69@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
     
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    [–] scholar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Boot off usb, create partitions, wait, spend five screens clicking 'no' on all of the options, unplug ethernet so it allows you to make a local account, wait, login, spend 15 minutes uninstalling all of the preinstalled nonsense, disable all of the advertising on the task bar and desktop, pretend the rest of the telemetry doesn't exist, download and install the latest drivers from each manufacturers website. Very simple.

    [–] Luccus@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

    Man. Last time I just wanted to check if my new laptop was working properly, so I booted up it's preinstalled Windows. I literally had to look up how to get Windows to get me into Explorer without creating an account or connecting it to my network.

    It took me about 25 minutes and Windows was already installed on the damn thing.

    It took 15 minutes from booting a prepared Fedora stick to logging in.

    I honestly believe that, by now, Linux is no more difficult than Windows. People are just not used to the differences.

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

    You got a point up until you login.

    Afterwards, just run a powershell script that automatically uninstalls the bloat and disables all the stuff you don't want. Takes 30 seconds at most.

    Drivers are automatically installed via Windows update for everything except Nvidia.