Comment on Can't change controller settings without updating Windows first
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 months agoBecause telling someone to completely abandon their previous working setup for a complete new one with new bugs and zero understanding of the environment is not a solution to a controller not working.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is just excuses people make to justify not making the effort of facing change. I just switched earlier this year from being a die-hard Windows user since DOS in the 90’s. It’s no where nearly as bad as you make it sound.
First of all you can dual boot which means you don’t abandon your current setup and always have the option to go back to it should it not work for you. That being said, I haven’t booted my Windows partition in months and am increasingly considering repurposing the drive for something else now.
Secondly, what very little problems I encountered were a simple google search away to be fixed. And I am far from being a superuser in that environment. I tried to use Linux 10 years ago before and it was a PITA and I gave up. It isn’t like that anymore. It is much better. Things just work now unless you pick a shitty distro.
Thirdly, I’ve had a harder time finding the settings in a Windows machine after an update that moved things around than I ever had when I first used Linux. And with Linux, especially if you use KDE Plasma as a desktop environment, if something isn’t where you want it, you can customize it to be exactly how you like it. You can make it mimic Windows if you want. There are even custom themes that make it look exactly the same if you really don’t want to change.
Finally, the controller not working is only the tip of the iceberg of bullshit Microsoft has been pulling on its users and it has gotten far worse now with Windows 11. Microsoft has turned Windows 11 into a bloated, data mining, ad showing, AI feature-forcing, anti-consumer nightmare of a platform that keeps doing shit you don’t want without asking you permission for. They have been treating their users like captive sources of income to exploit as they please, even though they have already paid for their license.
And even if you don’t mind that rapidly growing list of major irritants, many people including myself cannot even upgrade to Windows 11 unless they buy a whole new machine even if they wanted to because of the arbitrary DRM chip requirements. And they’re dropping support for Windows 10 next year. So looking down the barrel of having to pay for a new computer while the current one works perfectly well, plus having to pay for another Windows license with which Microsoft will monetize the shit out of my usage of the platform with zero regards to my privacy, making the jump doesn’t sound that bad of a decision anymore.