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Windows 11 is an example of poor code quality. Bugs everywhere, while the same things work on Ubuntu/popos.

Past MS engineers have been commenting for a decade on how MS has grown too big, can't manage, and has become a monolith "too big to fail". By nature when engineers are small pieces of a giant machine, they don't do their best work. And those with the experience move on to better things.

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My experience has also been that Windows 11 is buggy (haven't been using it for a while because it can't even reliably connect to the internet). But also in my limited experience (just one install on a single machine in ~2020, used for a few months): Ubuntu is just as bad or even worse.

Your experience its quite limited and you probably need to know how to properly update ubuntu since most of the issues I've found with it (since I started using it ~12 years ago) are usually issues caused by lack of drivers (which gets solved in 15 minutes once you know where to click) once those are solved it is sturdy and you can keep it runing for several months without having to restart it or it becoming unusably slow as it hapens with windows systems after about 4 days of uptime

Ah the old ‘you are holding it wrong’ of linux.

This comment is funny to me because it was up to date and the particular issue wasn’t driver related: it was specifically that after not touching it at all for a couple months each subsequent time I logged in it would randomly lock up, took about 15min to boot.

This is practically guaranteed to be "driver" related, unless it was only one specific binary that was "locking up".

It would lock up as in just take an extremely long time to do certain things in the UI. That sounds like a pretty odd way for a driver issue to manifest, but maybe I'm missing something.

The biggest issue with Windows isn't poor code or shitty engineering, it's the support for legacy software. MS engineers are some of the smartest in the world. The devs can fix the code and make a much better OS but that would break boomer software used by big banks that haven't updated since the 80s. When Microsoft write code, it has to promise support for decades, that means having to maintain the same old outdated APIs for many years.

Outdated APIs don't have to affect the shell and built in programs or anything else that is kept up to date. My linux programs are no more buggy due to having Wine installed for similar compat with legacy Windows executables.

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