Windows fixed the reason I tried Linux (untimely forced updates). The reason for forcing was valid, but they did drag their feet on resolving when it was updated (which is finally resolved).
People hate the ‘new start menu’, but I can start typing just about anything I want to adjust and go right to the settings without having to remember the structure for getting there.
Dynamic tiling has come about and improved both natively with PowerTools, and third party (Komorebi).
The interface has been beautified with centered taskbar icons, rounded corners, and new materials like Mica and Smoke for transparency effects.
Widgets provide a personalized feed of news, weather, traffic, sports, and stock market data.
Users can organize, and open windows more efficiently with Snap layouts and Snap groups.
Game performance is improved by Direct Storage allowing games to load data directly to the GPU, reducing load times.
The 24H2 update employs rewritten core platform code in Rust, enhancing speed and reduces memory bugs.
Phone Link shows battery level, connectivity status, and recent messages in the Start Menu. It also allows easy transfer of files (integrating with File Explorer), texting from PC.
Live Captions for audio and video content, making it more accessible.
Support for Wi-Fi 7, offering faster and more reliable wireless connections.
Energy Saver Mode to extend battery on mobile devices.
Improved context buttons, support for TAR and 7z compression, and the ability to edit PNG metadata.
I’m not doubting that Windows could repair a drive that Linux couldn’t. Linux filesystem repair tools for proprietary filesystems like NTFS and ExFAT aren’t very good because they’re reverse engineered.
What I doubt is that connecting an external HDD with filesystem errors would cause a Linux system to hang. I’ve connected countless drives in various stages of failure without ever having one hang the whole system.
The Chinese manufacturer only makes drivers for their cheap knockoff hardware for Windows. The vast majority of people’s complaints about Linux can be solely attributed to lack of commercial support. Just look at how much has changed about Linux gaming since Valve started investing time and money into WINE/Proton.
It’s not realistic to expect the community to develop flawless drivers for all the cheap hardware you’ll find. Even if we assumed that all the hardware was fully documented (which it almost never is), there aren’t enough people volunteering their time to actually write the code. When you add in the time required to reverse-engineer it, it gets even worse.
…So that’s a no?
I don’t disagree that the TPM is a fantastic hardware solution for cryptographic key storage. I’m just not under the mistaken impression that it automagically makes Windows safer just by existing. If you knew anything at all about how it actually works, you’d see that it’s not some panacea for malicious software. Assuming a user doesn’t just click [Next>] whenever a software prompt appears, it can help safeguard a machine from invisible infections. But the vast majority of software infections come from software masquerading as legit and tricking the user into installing it.
There’s nothing stopping a malicious actor from creating a program that tricks a user into installing a malicious key into the TPM and allowing that malicious software to run in the same trusted manner as the Windows bootloader would. Thus achieving the same rootkit/bootkit infections that are currently possible on non-TPM machines.
I was able to resolve the issue by writing a script to reboot the specific USB it was connected to. If I as an end-user can produce a working solution; there is a MAJOR problem with Linux.
Sure, if you’re willfully ignorant. The sources validating Linux destroying hardware are linked and documented. Denial is common from Linux advocates who seem to not GAF about end-users and their needs.