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It's completely inconsistent with traditional Windows design language and there's no "Cancel" button or an X in the corner to click on so you can't cancel out of it with your mouse and have to reach for Esc on your keyboard

It also tries to funnel you into a shitty Microsoft service

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[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Any distro with KDE + WINE, and you basically have Windows 7, but Linux.

Only real difference is if you want to interact with devices that need special drivers (basically, anything that isn't a USB HID device), you gotta use native Linux apps for those. Example would be reflashing a phone's firmware using the proprietary SoC bootrom mode, or trying to use a DJ controller with a Windows program via WINE.

Usual disclaimer: Linux is not Windows, and things will not behave exactly the same. For example, installing software is done through a software repository instead of going to a random website and downloading an exe. When installing software from a repository, it will get updated along with the rest of your system. Think: an app store, but before app stores existed. Also, the only time you have to reboot after an update is when updating the kernel, and you won't get that annoying thing where Windows Update has to take forever to apply an update when shutting down since Linux will give permission to write to files that are currently in use.