Re: Who Cares?
The same could be said about Windows. For me the biggest irritation Windows offers is its mishandling of USB ports. This probably doesn't affect most users but if you're a developer who uses a JTAG debugger and one or more serial ports then you'll rapidly find out that Windows (assuming the driver actually works) ties physical ports to specific USB devices. Fixing this is relatively straightforward at home but in a curated work environment you have to be Administrator to do this which requires -- at best -- a separate login.....its just horrible. Linux 'just works'.
Incidentally, another place I ran into Windows's 'didn't quite figure it out' policy was working the polls in last November's election (in the US). The Dominion voter terminals are Windows based and they connect to a laser printer to print a voter's ballot. When voting spans several days you have to pack up everything at the end of a session (its locked into a steel cage). When you come to hook everything up again you rapidly discover that nothing works unless you match a specific printer with a specific voting machine. Windows won't tell you who/what/why, it just issues a generic error and sulks, leaving the polling place staff limited time to figure everything out. Linux, "never a problem".
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