This is by far the worst take I’ve seen on the topic. Sorry for being rude, but it sounds like you haven’t touched a computer since that last time in 1990.

Power management is a joke

Surprise, it’s 2024 and windows will obliterate the battery even after you turn off the machine.

There no way even possible via the GUI to config power management for things like low/critical battery conditions /actions.

There is, though it’s via dconf, but it’s justified as it’s a thing few people would want to tweak.

Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel

Sounds like an excel problem to me

Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort

I don’t use either, but I’m pretty sure filter views are available in libreoffice calc. Open source DB’s and Access? What are you talking about, exactly?

Now there’s that print monitor that’s on by default

The what now? Are you talking about CUPS daemon? systemctl stop cups && systemctl disable cups. Enjoy your 2.5megs of ram back at a cost of not being able to print anything. Now try and do that on windows without bricking your system.

and can only be shut up by using a command line. Wtf? In the 21st century?

If you insist on needing a GUI, go ham. But don’t you diss the command line. Being able to do things without GUI is anything but a con.

Yea, samba works, but how do you clear creds you used one time to connect to a share, even though you didn’t say “save creds”?

That’s notoriously a windows problem, not a linux one. You must be misremembering it

Oh, you have a wireless Logitech mouse? Linux won’t even recognize it

Not recognize it like, not being picked up by xinput, or not even listed in lsusb? I haven’t ever heard of non-class-compliant mouse. Is that something to do with the G-Hub thingamajig? If so, that’s on logitech, not linux.

My brand new wireless mouse works on any version of windows since 2000, at the least, and would probably work on Win95

No, it won’t. If linux didn’t pick it up without a driver, then win95 won’t either. And it’s even worse in reverse. I have a bunch of old hardware that won’t ever work on modern windows because the last drivers released are for WinXP, which are not compatible nor even portable to subsequent versions. All of them are plug-n-play on linux, though.

Linux doesn’t even use a common shell

Huh? You mean the desktop environments? The shell is a thing very few people ever care about.

If it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS, even then it would’ve required settling on a single GUI (which is arguably half of why Windows became a standard, the other half being a common API), a common build (so the same tools/utilities are always available), and a commitment to put usability for the inexperienced user first.

The overwhelming majority of systems are either in GNOME/GTK or KDE/Qt ecosystem, unless you really know what you’re doing and want to go with something completely different. But even then, there’s a lot of re-use or re-implementation of components from one or the other. It’s great to have this choice. Sure, it can be a hassle if components from one don’t play nice with another. But then, you’re comparing it to windows, that uses components from 3 distinct eras, that don’t really work together either.