Hi againHello,
If I understand your previous post correctly, you are frustrated with the performance and stability of Linux for your specific hardware and needs. Therefore, you are considering installing Windows for your primary desktop use, which seems like a good choice for you.
You can still help by using the https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/installation-report package to report your observations to the Debian project about your hardware and software issues.
All the best.
So you didn't lynch me, i thank you for that.
:hug: My first biggest frustration and headache with Linux for desktop/client usage since 2018 have been.... windows-Linux networking.. Its a nightmare to get it to keep on working.. it stops working after a while even you dont change a thing.. i spent weeks and weeks reading on samba.org back in 2018 and also in late 2020.. and the main problem is, it has a bug that even now 5years later isn't fixed.
The second frustration was to make it stable to run over a long period of time.. it always crashed or got zombie processes after 100 to 150days of uptime..
This was both with Mint, LMDE and Debian 10. I never used Debian11 as debian12 was just a few month away when my Debian10 install started to act up to much and i hate to install computers more then absolutely necessary. I had that as a daytime job in the early 00's and i have easily installed over 1000+ computers and workstations.. so i hate installing them even nowadays.
call it post traumatic stress disorder The third frustration was how it handles memory overcome and swap and it always ended up in swapdeath / disk I/O trashing so the computer froze up for everything from 30seconds to 30+minutes. i think the worst i have experienced on one system was two hours... and i had to save a really-really important document so i could not just do a hard shutdown and walk away.
This also made hibernating a system that had 90% ram usage and 5GB Swap usage on a HDD a nightmare as it could take up to 20minutes before the process was finished and the computer was off.
Fun fact.
this laptop with an sata3 SSD is 15seconds slower from clicking hibernate to it shuts down , then my win7 machine with an HDD Sata2I dont blame Debian or Mint or other distros.. Its simple.. Linux is build for server usage.. not desktop usage.. and a server has 10times the RAM of a desktop/laptop and one or several Raid SAS arrays with a lot faster read/write and it has a full duplex instead of Sata that only has simplex. So it is not strange the kernel gets a heart attack working with 8GB ram and a Sata HDD.
Then the last frustration that is on me.
I have over 30years of experience of microsoft systems i have worked with computers administrations and network installations, so solving a problem should not take more then an hour tops.. most often just 10-20minutes..
So me just having 5years of Linux and no schooling as i have on Windows is not fair to compare i know..
But the frustration is still there... it took so long time to solve simple problems as there is so much old documentation online that dont apply on modern distros.... and when you dont have half arch wiki in your head and know all magic words and packages.... and on top it is so few Linux users so when asking to get a hint in the right direction can take days as there is only a few that really know how Linux tics and its core.. so most often its easier to just reinstall the computer instead of solving the problem.. as you will save days on downtime.. and downtime is bad for me as i work with research so i need my computers to run flawless even five month from now without the need for maintaining the system to be able to keep it running.
I have learned to keep a Linux server stable with docker containers running 24/7.. But not desktops and laptops.
and now my time is out on the learning new stuff part, as my health makes me prioritize my time i have.
So going back to windows is a safe card as i know, i really know i can set up a system within two hours that will run stable for 24/7 365days.
So that is why i go back to windows.. I need stable systems and my time to learn is sadly up.
Statistics: Posted by Marie SWE — 2024-01-15 01:53