Windows users sometimes claim that they can't switch to Linux because they would miss their Windows apps. I agree! In fact, as a longtime Linux user, I could NEVER go back to Windows now that I've grown accustomed to all these fantastic Linux apps!
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So, there is this odd thing that I see
over and over again on the internet from
people that use Windows that maybe would
consider using Linux, but they fear that
if they switch over to Linux, they're
going to miss all of their Windows apps.
And I'm not going to sit here and lie to
those people, you know, and say, "Oh,
no, you'll be fine." No, you will miss
some Windows apps when you switch to
Linux. Because I can tell you right now,
I would never ever switch from Linux
back to Windows because there are a lot
of Linux only apps that I can't live
without, right? I can't go back to
Windows because I would miss so much of
the software that I depend on, so much
of the software that I love. Let's start
with one of the most obvious. I love
playing around in the shell in the
terminal using shells like bash or fish.
I love the GNU core utils. All those
great command line utilities like GP set
and al heck Windows doesn't have
equivalents to many of that stuff. It
doesn't have a proper shell. It's got
the power shell, but it's weak compared
to stuff like bash or fish. They don't
have cool command line utilities that do
all the core utils stuff. It doesn't
have, for example, the chute command,
which I often use to rescue Linux
machines. There's no chute equivalent on
Windows. Another area where Windows is
really lacking, where Linux just really
shines, is the fact that Linux has
package managers, right? Regardless of
the Linux distribution you're running,
you have a package manager filled with
thousands and thousands, tens of
thousands, hundreds of thousands of
Linux programs, right? And it's very
easy to get software on Linux. And the
same thing with the graphical software
centers, your quote app stores, right?
We've got really good app stores on
Linux. And you you really don't have
anything like that on Windows. There's
some package management stuff, some
software centers, but they pale in
comparison to what we have on Linux.
Also on Linux, many people find a
desktop environment or a window manager
that they just fall in love with. Here
lately, I I love running Qile. It's the
window manager I want to be in. I love
its workflow. I wouldn't want to live
without it. I can't run QL on Windows,
right? If you go to Windows, you really
don't have a lot of choice when it comes
to desktop environments or window
managers, right? You get the Windows
desktop, how the Windows desktop is set
up out of the box, and you're pretty
much stuck with that thing. And I don't
want that thing. Another area uh that's
far as default Windows applications, the
file manager in Windows sucks donkey
dicks, right? Let's be honest, right?
We've got fantastic file managers on
Linux. Some of the more nerdy
applications that I really can't live
without that are kind of Windows only,
remote desktop applications like Remina,
right? It's fantastic for remoting into
other machines, SSH and other uh remote
protocols. There's no real good
application like that on Windows uh
virtual machines. I love using KVM on
Linux. KVM and QEMU uh program like Bert
Manager for a guey front end to that
stuff. You know, there's nothing like
that even close on Windows. For those of
you that do a lot with containerization,
Docker, and tools like Podman, obviously
fantastic on Linux, they're not there
for you on Windows. Heck, even the C
matrix program that's running in the
background right now, my little C matrix
screen saver. It's really not a screen
saver. It's actually a a terminal
program. C matrix
really doesn't work on Windows.
Technically, it has some Windows
support, but the fonts don't render
right and uh some of the libraries, the
dependencies are not really posix
compliant. So, Cmatrix runs great on
Linux and other Unix like operating
systems. It runs like a dog on Windows.
And until that's fixed, I'm staying
right here on Arch Linux, by the way.
Peace, guys.
