Also Windows has a huge community of people who will help you.

With Linux you're stuck trying to decipher the ramblings of neckbeards.

No, you're almost completely screwed if you're at the point of looking for non-trivial Windows help online. But you're also way less likely to be in that situation with Windows vs with Linux.

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officeplant 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

it's not 1999 anymore, we've already moved past the golden era of stackoverflow and forums to support Linux & Windows questions into a new dawn of poorly sourced reddit bot comments.

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Spivak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I really want to believe you and that I've just missed the magic support forums but trying to find answers to problems on Windows is just a million forums of the same essentially "turn it off and on again" advice

Linux forums might be obtuse but at least they'll have actual technical details about the problem. Almost without fail any "fix" they propose won't work on your system because it's for a different distro that was EoL 5 years ago but they'll at least give you something to work with.

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RajT88 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I know what you're talking about. Microsoft is so large, that the smallest of gaps are enough for ecosystems to form around and provide people a living.

For example, people trawling the Microsoft Q&A forum for low hanging fruit to provide advice to and build out their little home computer repair business profile.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/824/windows-h...

Some of these answers are really dubious. Some of these questions are really dubious.

	▲	mahboi 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah this completely matches my experience. Questions lacking essential details or followup, answers that are some kind of professional help who don't actually know anything.

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xp84 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I found all of the above to be lacking years ago tbh no matter what platform the advice was for. I'm really glad now that I can just go back and forth with even a free-tier chatbot for 2-3 messages to fix any fixable problem, or just have a cursor agent tinker with it interactively until it's fixed.