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Nowadays Windows is filled with adware and is fairly slow, but it wasn't always like this. Was there a particular time where a change occurred?

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[โ€“] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A switch to linux can be "painless", depending on the usecase of the user. I'm (learning to be) a web developer, which can be done on literally any OS, so if I were to switch to linux now and not 3-4 years ago, the switch would be pretty painless. But everyone has their use case and linux just plain does not work for some of them at the moment...

[โ€“] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net -1 points 3 months ago

I think you're right about that, but a lot of people just keep banging on about how people should switch and they don't acknowledge the real, structural and practical problems that are stopping most people from doing it.