It is somewhat ironical that the Wintel monopoly that standardized so much of PC space ultimately ended up helping Linux desktops, despite the grumblings of UNIX greybeards.
In contrast, there is no obvious need to move away from Android, and if you don't like it, you can move to the iPhone. The Mac was not a good alternative 15 years ago.
Just my humble opinion.
No std msc or service manager gui available either. Some of these existed but were lost in a CADT.
You can get plenty of info about the health of the drive while the system is running.
There isn't much reason to run a filesystem check unless something is wrong.
Speaking of services it's extremely easy to query which services are running and enable and disable stuff. Plus there aren't 85 different things running.
If you insist you can run something like https://github.com/mmstick/systemd-manager
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I’m not a fan of Microsoft biz practices but if you think Linux has nothing to learn from windows (especially on the desktop) you are mistaken.
Basically you were holding it wrong.
OTOH, the Linux- / free Unix-desktop has come a long way since then. For my personal machines, I think GNU/Linux plus MATE makes for a much better desktop than Windows these days. (Admittedly, my taste might be slightly non-mainstream.)
Also, I think terrible security and user experience applies to Android now too.
I don't disagree as of now.
If there'll ever come a time when Android has its Windows security moment, the trigger this time should be Privacy.
I partially switched to Linux just as an adventure, because I could.
After I got past the initial "This is really weird"-phase, Linux was an eye opener. Other than that I use Windows at work, I have not looked back since.
Strictly speaking it is not about GNU/Linux per se, but Windows vs. Unix. One of the BSDs could fill that place just as well, but on Linux, hardware support is usually better, plus the mainstream Linux distros tend to be more friendly to lazy or non-techie users.
My main reason to use Linux distributions was to be able to do university work at home.
After all I wouldn't be able to buy an Aix or DG/UX license, the UNIXes we had on campus before computing department started to deploy Linux based PCs.
I always dual booted and tried a few times to just use it as desktop, but eventually gave up on it.
My travel netbook and mobile devices are the only gear still running some form of Linux.
Are you serious? Android still has a massive fragmentation problem because OEMs/carriers don't provide updates.