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Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Yeah, this can be an unpopular opinion on Lemmy, because there’s a giant Linux circlejerk. But the unfortunate reality is that changing to Linux does have some major stumbling blocks. The “switching is so easy, just do it” crowd totally glosses over it, but that’s kind of rhetoric doesn’t help long term adoption. Because if some new user has only heard “switching is so easy” and immediately runs into issues, they’ll be more likely to go “well if it’s super easy and I can’t figure it out, I guess it’s just not for me” and abandon things.
There’s also a very vocal (and toxic) part of the Linux community that basically just screams “RTFM” at every newbie question. New users shouldn’t be expected to dig into a 350 page technical document just to learn the basics of their new OS.
Yea... The biggest wtf moment was
Logitech doesn't have Linux drivers.... I didn't know this before switching. It's not really Linux's fault, but users won't care. The fact that something as basic as a mouse and keyboard need tinkering sucks
Nvdia drivers are wonky and buggy it took me 2h to configure my two monitor setup. Again, really not Linux's fault, but people won't care
Same random bugs like suspend not working, or extern drives randomly mounting, it's little things
So yea... I like Linux way better than Windows now, but "just switch everything works" simply isn't true and we have to be honest.