Citations needed. Doesn't happen to anyone else but you.
> Oh, too bad, You should turn it on, I will remind you in a few days. > 3 days, 5 days Oh, Sorry, never is NOT an option.
Again 5 minutes of Googling disables it.
> On Windows, You don't even know where your apps configurations are.
In Linux they can be in a dozen of different locations as well. And Gnome even has (had?) a sort of registry.
> What?! Gnome has excellent application search, Win + one or two key presses I can launch my app, and it's actually consistent. No ads inserted randomly to interrupt my muscle memory.
"I use Gnome/KDE and I don't give a damn about all other DEs."
Got it!
> How can one excuse the mess of going to each application's website, download binaries and install, and then let each and every app phone home to check for update, and then go through the upgrade dialogs, keeping watch if the app has inserted any search box or toolbar opt-outs? That is just absurd! I can just run `yay -S --noconfirm` and put password, and my update kicks in. Most of the apps are not bothered if I am running their latest version or not.
Most serious Windows software doesn't need manual updates. Windows and MS Office update themselves. Adobe, Corel and 3dMax products do so as well. Tiny utilities? Who cares? They just work.
It's Linux where people get obsessed with updates because there's no API/ABI compatibility per se and you have no choice. In Windows? Run something from 20 years ago and don't bother.
> Because, again, it's only feeding on the legacy, and because people pay the Windows Tax,
$10 tax. Yeah. I've spent hundreds of hours fixing Linux. No tax at all.
> I am not riddled by any of those 'bugs' and 'regressions', funny thing is, sometimes there are minor hitches, but again, they are minor.
Anecdotal evidence rears its ugly head AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN. "If it works me for Linux is perfect". Never mind people who actually do the dirty work of fixing hundreds of regressions every Linux kernel release.
Nothing ever changes with the Linux cult. "It works for me, I'm a seasoned developer, I know my way around console, Linux must work for everyone".
Even in this discussion this has been repeated ad nauseam.
F it. I'm out.