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Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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This is happening because Linux is the default OS for servers, robots, machines, etc., it just sucks balls for normie personal computing, so they'll use Winblows for the basic stuff, and WSL for the server-centric tasks.
Ubuntu can make it as toddler-centric as it wants, it won't change the fact that eventually a person will find a thing their machine won't do without an on-staff geek.
If they have heart, they'll try chasing the black screen into the depths of google oblivion or use AI for infinitely recirculating bad advice. It's ironic that a LLM running on a Linux server can't fix Linux.
Most people will punt and go back to Microsucks which grows more evil and abusive every day.
I'm just mad I can't get any of my file-management containers to work properly.
Tell me one thing that is harder to do on Linux than on Windows nowadays. Something coming from OS itself, not from hostile vendor the community managed to patch support for.
print something on a piece of paper.
Harder with windows
That is literally impossible to say, as you said, "hostile vendors" and all. I've had a chance to think about it, and I'm not sure they're hostile, probably just lazy. At any rate, I sense some willful blindness on your part; exactly the kind of thing I was saying holds back progress. You type some terse retort and push your keyboard away, satisfied you've told some stupid normie off- I'm not the one on the wrong side of the philosophical fence here, and my argument is not unique or new.
I'm not sure how you're getting all that from sharing my experience that adding printers in windows is harder than in Linux, in my experience.
There are lots of examples where windows is way easier -- music production comes to mind as stupidly difficult in Linux compared to windows.
Printing is simply a case where Linux wins hands down, and has for years.