Windows: difficult Service Packs, „overlayed” reinstall causes SP needed to be reinstalled along, ALSO!!... that is, if not combined previously with install CD contents... in a next hard, timewaster, hack step...
Windows has very bad history, form DOS-based old kernels, to NT system audio service shit — and horrible Windows 7 audio latency lag (the audiodg process maybe causes it?!)?? Why next service in Control Panel, and even NEXT process in Task Manager, totals as +2, only to serve with sound card?!
Windows is more smartphonic (mainly for mere idiots), despite iOS existence
All Windows nowadays seem to be portable-compatible – that is, intended for BUSY, hard, hard work–NESS (in short: simply the business).
Instead, Linux preserves speed (there are various tricks to achieve it: Porteus .xzm/.sb squashfs modules; no System Registry, even gconf/dconf does is OK), more real user-friendliness (I mean mainly UN&&CORP., as in this blog entry title!)
•Speed varies of HD sync mount settings option, but LibreOffice from squashfs filesystem (functionality packed on one file, almost as archive!! but with easy mount possibility, with cloop)
–of KNOPPIX distribution – runs speedily.
•No ActiveX, no registry.
Above I mentioned one trick to cope with daily Arch Linux experience.
You have program, or simple(r) command, the xcalib – for graphic card RGB color/contrast/luminance/gamma INSTANT (–with xbindkeys) switching (for example: whole screen turns to healthy-for-eyes green mode).
No need for Control Panel (more precisely, when you not use EAX sound-candy of Sound Blaster), similarly driver installing is a RARE process
•MIDI works normally, standard keyboard as MIDI keyboard, .sf2 also, both in drivers (needs spec. program) & sound player's Fauxdacious MIDI support
•Fauxdacious has APE (Monkey's Audio file format) BUG, which fast-forwards huge fragments of played file
•SATA works OK: quick hibernation, without additional (and slightly strange for me) Uli SATA/RAID driver.
•Screen resolution: xrandr command.
But compiz with hires requires NVIDIA driver installation. There is a BUG here, again.
With compiz you have all-in-one extra desktop features: zoom, applications' windows switchers, beautiful emerald & GTK Window Decorator border/caption theming.
•Strange incompatibility of compiz Wall+switcher plugin combo, with wmctrl command switch desktop functionality
Linux has powerful ability to not mark application executable+dynamic libraries as used – you can even install new version of system on RUNNING system, W/O SYSTEM RESTART!!
•BUT: close you LibreOffice instance.
•You will need probably to recompile BOTH Compiz+ccsm. Most pacman installation experience has been NEGATIVE here.
•Generally, in Linux, you must observe program hierarchy & .so dynamic libraries conflicts, especially of the ICU library.
•For me, ffmpeg/AV libraries tend to be in incorrect version after updating. But there's mplayer also... .
You can even part an OS update process into several stages.
But it is definitely more advanced option. Before updating, generally, remember to free pacman/pikaur/pamac/pakku caches. Maybe also the snap/flatpak.
Generally, Linuxes „likes” caches. Package cache, file cache, even ZRAM memory compression (BUGGY?!: ↓↓↓↓); xdg menu cache
Call Trace:
[599553.430653] ? zram_bvec_rw.isra.0+0x2e/0x34d
[599553.430657] ? zram_submit_bio+0x1a9/0x284
[599553.430661] ? submit_bio_noacct+0x1a5/0x28d
[599553.430665] ? bio_add_page+0x47/0x51
[599553.430669] ? swap_readpage+0x141/0x1bc
[599553.430673] ? do_swap_page+0x200/0x524
[599553.430676] ? handle_mm_fault+0x50a/0xc9f
[599553.430681] ? exc_page_fault+0x254/0x36d
[599553.430685] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
[599553.430688] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
[599553.430692] ---[ end trace f04c7527942625ac ]---
[599553.430694] zram: Decompression failed! err=-22, page=752143
[599553.430698] Read-error on swap-device (253:0:6017144)
Linux remains command line-based, rather handy (colourful!) •fish interpreter, •roxterm – a good console emulator.
•When placing/editing long lines of text, I noticed ALL console emulators behave erratically.
•Generally, 're finer than under Windows.