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"I don't want to learn something new, therefore Windows is better."
Wouldn't that have been easier to type than all that filler?
If you'd actually read it, you'd see that I'm not a stranger to Linux. Being familiar with it doesn't fix how unintuitive and unsupported it is.
Yeah, anybody who says Linux is easy to use has never spent four hours troubleshooting a printer driver, only to discover that the open source driver doesn’t actually support your specific model of printer and you’re going to be forced to boot into Windows to print anything.
Cross-compatibility is improving, but the “Linux is easy” crowd is really just overcompensating for how unintuitive it actually is. The problem with telling everyone “it’s easy” to get them to try it is that if it’s not easy then people immediately give up and go back to Windows as soon as they can’t figure something out. It’s falsely representing the reality of the situation, which is only self-sabotaging in the long term because it means fewer people will be willing to adopt and actually stick with it.
I don't know what printer you have, but I've had the exact opposite experience. I don't remember how I eventually got it working, but printing on windows was a lot more effort than transferring the files to mac or linux, which just worked out of the box.
It's been like that for some other miscellaneous devices like a playstation 3 controller and this old usb floppy drive I once needed.