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Comment by ruskimalooski | Hacker News Reader

As nice as Linux on the desktop can be sometimes, it was actually refreshing to come back to Windows 10, especially after my time with Arch.

I had forgotten how nice having certain things simply work out of the box was (wifi drivers, bluetooth drivers, etc).

I like Linux a lot, but its hard to see myself using it as a primary computer anymore, especially as a more personal, recreational machine.

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It is strange that I have the opposite experience. When a problem occurs in Linux, the investigation is like a trip in the unknown. At the end, the problem is clearly identified and definitively solved and I have improved my knowledge about the system. When the same occurs in windows, I have to reinstall random software or drivers until it works. No clue if it will fail again soon. Nothing learned about what was the bug that has caused this problem.

My experience is somewhat similar. I dual boot Antergos and Windows 10 on my Thinkpad X230. I find Windows 10 to be almost as fast and zippy as Linux now. I understand all the hate it gets regarding privacy concerns and being a closed system. But if you are ready to put up with them, it is a fine operating system. I see a huge improvement in Windows 10 when it comes to stability and performance issues.

> I had forgotten how nice having certain things simply work out of the box was (wifi drivers, bluetooth drivers, etc).

If this is what you want, why did you pick Arch Linux out of all distros?

I'm using Linux Mint and it ran flawlessly out of the box on my ThinkPad.

Yea, I've used Mint. I didn't care for it. Arch was not my first pick, I used it after using it a bunch.

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