Sorry for a rant against Windows in a linux community, though this feels like best place to rant.
I recently started work on Windows, and I expected everything to just work well. After all, that’s the point of Windows! It is the first-class citizen, where things work out-of-the-box.
Yet my experience wasn’t so great.
- Printers, the bane of IT. HP has dedicated drivers to it, which they should support well. It should JUST work, right? Right?? No, it randomly fails to detect printers, says a printer is off, reports missing papers when it has enough, fails to print a normal document while being able to print test pages. It also seems like driver-OS communication is not quite great, as they often give different status.
- While in a zoom meeting, I plugged in my earphone. Then, zoom froze. Really, how can plugging an earphone cause a freeze? Even quitting zoom and re-entering did not work. In the end, I had to turn my computer off and on again, and couldn’t use my earphone. It has been quite embarrassing and enraging experience. What a disruption from something which should work out-of-the-box…
- PuTTY and WinSCP is way more clunky than ssh in terminal. I don’t like the GUI with decades old visual, with confusing settings here and there. Each app having separate terminal turns me off as well.
- Windows 10 does have multiple virtual desktop support. Yet funnily enough, clipboard contents are separate for each virtual desktop. Who thought this is a good idea??
Basically, hardware support is still hit-or-miss with Windows (I thought this was linux-only issue), and connection to linux server is not so stellar. How can people love these?
I thought windows had ssh in the terminal by default?
It does. OpenSSH 9.5p1 on my desktop.
Which is kind of weird, because that version is a year and a half old. 9.9p2 is current.
They have their own thing I believe. Have to use Putty for SSH.