• Most experts agree Linux is safer than Windows

  • All scientific supercomputers use Linux

  • Professional hackers use Linux

  • Linux is the undisputed backbone of internet servers

  • Critical military infrastructure relies on Linux

Microsoft’s revenue was $300 Billion last year. They have UNLIMITED ressources.

So why is Windows still worse than Linux ?

  • thanatotus@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    I dont know; this seems like super specific case where you’ve economic means to afford or be around all of those high end systems and the same hardware is underpowered for your use case.

    My first personal laptop had Windows 7 but as soon as Windows 8 came it struggled (only having measly 2GB of RAM) - so i switched to Ubuntu and it was a breeze for the next 10 years. I always used to try new version of Windows when released but it they always seemed to be memory hog and become bloated over time.

    • aim_at_me@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      6 days ago

      You kind of haven’t addressed the point though, you’ve just pointed out that linux experiences memory pressure less often.

      But OPs point is that Windows is better at it when you inevitably fill its memory. I run multiple clusters of docker containers and virtualised systems in my day to day, and its true that linux (Ubuntu at least) isn’t the best at huge memory pressure, especially when I fill swap. And I’m running the latest intel chip with 32gb. I wish I’d gone 64gb… but, memory prices.

      I don’t know if thats better or worse than Windows though, I haven’t touched an MS machine in a decade.