I mean, I don’t think it’s a shit experience at all. It’s different. If you’re not aware of the strengths, then weaknesses like this are going to turn you off a lot. For me, I would never try to run Windows as my main desktop unless some weird situation came up that really required it, but some of the stuff you’re picking out as issues are real issues, yes.
And the strength you see in linux… ok, WSL in windows is probably a bit less efficient, but for most usages all those windows downsides are now moot with WSL & docker. if i want to install a web server and wordpress, it’s just as easy as any linux server.
I’m such a dickhead that I literally just spun up a totally fresh Debian server just so I could type time apt install apache2 wordpress and can report that it took 46.314 seconds including me starting blankly at package lists for a little bit before hitting enter. Go install a web server and Wordpress on a fresh-installed Windows machine and come back and tell me how long it took and how many steps. The point is not that one literal example – it’s that once you learn how to use it, you’ll be able to work faster and more happily on it than you will on a Windows machine. If you need something in the domain where Linux shines, networking or development, it’ll be as far ahead of Windows as Windows is on things like consumer-hardware support and end-user experience. If you don’t need that, then it’s not relevant to you and its weaknesses will piss you off and of course you won’t like it.
Of course i know the main advantage of linux is no spyware crap, but it’s kind of sad if after all these years that’s pretty much still the only advantage.
This is a very strange statement.
But it seems i’m still not ready for the linux desktop experience, no matter how often it’s repeated on the fediverse here how good it is now…
I mean… maybe those are the same people telling you to download Google Chrome .debs so I’m not sure I would put much stock in their statements. I’ve been hearing for over 20 years that Linux is obviously ready for the desktop, and I’m honestly not really convinced (with experiences like yours as pretty good examples of why).