Honestly, I think there are more people jumping the HMS Microsoft ship. Some, like me, who has had trouble using Windows 11 on hardware that was designed to run with Windows 11 are heading over to Linux.
I have worked with MS products since the early 80s starting with DOS 2.0 and was a big proponent of the quality of Microsoft products, for a time. As the quality of their work with each version of Windows started to be more and more buggy, more and more prone to attacks from hackers to steal information, I believed the quality and security started suffering greatly with the more they tried to innovate. Once they started giving in to adding all the extra stuff you really don’t want to a basic install of Windows XP, I really started losing faith. Once they took out the games and made it so I had to pay to play solitaire I was ready to look around for an alternative.
Right now, I am unable to get my new HP, that came with Windows 11 to do a clean install of Windows 11. The recovery install from HP works just fine so I know the hardware is capable of being recognized by Windows 11. Recovery works like it’s supposed to but not the clean install. So, I've had enough. I looked around and found out that Linux Mint was about the easiest for me to kick the Windows habit with. I have almost completely switched 99% of my daily computer use over to Linux Mint and only use Windows when I have to use Access or Excel, which Linux still doesn't have an excellent replacement for... yet. I was here looking to see if I could try to find an answer to this problem.
As for myself, I do a lot of web design and I found that it’s so much easier to check my work on the localhost on a Linux rig right out of the box, only having to install PHP and MySQL. Everything else I need to test in a local server environment while using Windows has to have about 20 different installation in order to do the same, and even then there's no guarantee that it will work after the next update.
Since my rig is among the newer in hardware, I did have to use the Edge version of Linux Mint, which they offer for greater compatibility, and it recognized the brand new hardware that was designed for, and came with Windows 11, and everything was working natively even at the install. I have to mention that the regular version of Mint wouldn't recognize what some of the hardware was without having to load a different Ubuntu kernel (the keyboard and the display) that was designed for compatibility with OEM installs. They people overseeing the LM build noticed the buzz on the forums about the problem recognizing newer hardware and had an answer within a month and offered a solution to fix the problem. I have never seen Microsoft do that.
I had to learn to be able to work on Linux Ubuntu server for a client that uses a Linux server. He is among many that are moving to Ubuntu for their server needs, going completely away from the complexity and the overhead Windows Server uses, which is taking away resources that could be used for clients and, therefore, the bottom line, costing more than just the cost of the software and all the supporting software going along with it. Most of the software used by Linux is opensource, like the OS, which I believe builds innovation and even helps aid in it's security, since anyone can look at the code someone else has written and correct any issues that can be there. This can't be done with MS software. These things, specially the security, is the core of a build of Linux is not built into Windows, which makes Linux the best all around OS for servers. With each iteration of Linux desktop it becomes even more user friendly along with being more and more compatible with new hardware, natively, as well as having little overhead in resources along with the same security built into the server software. Sans a desktop environment Ubuntu can be run off a USB and run fairly efficiently. I doubt there is any way to run a version of Windows 11 without the GUI. If MS ever puts out their code for everyone to look at and to use without cost then I think there may be more interest in MS OS, but until then, with the progress that Linux has made, Microsoft should be scared, very scared, their OS is going to go the way of the Dodo.
But that's why there’s less traffic. They are going to Linux forums.
