That document is riddled with errors -- it states also 2023 with a lot of junk in there from 2016 etc.
IMO (and IME) the main point of the blog article is still very much accurate even today, but you must have missed that somehow.
Many distros don't use X11 now -- the only thing you need X11 for is for wretched Windows RDP to connect to a full GUI Linux desktop. Linux has had > 255 file / directory names for as long as I can remember
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To me, personally, none of this matters anyway. There exist programs like portable TeamViewer to get around the problem of "wretched Windows RDP" so it is OK, and, the NTFS filesystem is also OK, as I use various programs and tools that can support UNICODE and over MAX_PATH (260 characters) file pathnames. I have been using various programs and tools for the past 39 years. (I am close to 51 years old.) As a matter of fact, I have been
writing my own programs and tools, for the past 39 years also.
-- it's Windows that still has that wretched problem -- the facility might be in Windows but things like file explorer and other directory displaying apps still use the old API.
Essentially, that's really nothing more than a classical-old PEBKAC. It is analogous to when people complain about Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) because they don't know how to properly use DISKPART / PowerShell / portable MiniTool Partition Wizard / etc. for the kind of stuff that belongs in the category of those specific admin tasks that cannot be done with Disk Management, i.e., the category of "know your tools".
That being said, I don't actually even use a File Explorer replacement like Directory Opus. Because, I simply don't need to. As another (also classical) example of what this is factually about, if seaching for folders and files is taking forever with File Explorer, then use Everything (from voidtools).
I've no trouble with 4K UHD monitors -- X3 without issue.
My Asus laptop has a HDMI 2.1 port with FRL so, it supports 8K. But I am pretty sure that I don't need to move to Linux to get a Samsung Odyssey Neo G95NC to work without issue on it. And besides, using triple 16:9 screens for what I like to do would only give me neck strain, shoulder pains, headaches and nausea due to constant looking that far to the left/right of what I currently am using. That plus the fact that the left and right screen would block the sound of my big floorstanding stereo pair of passive loudspeakers, which is important to me even though I also own a stereo pair of powered studio monitors that are suitable to be positioned below a multi-screen setup.
Pipewire is alive and well so is any sort of high quality audio. And what's wrong if you have to configure some things -- typical "canned audio effects" straight out of the box might work for some but I prefer my own sound. Besides Windows to run decently needs a certain amount of configuration.
Linux doesn't even have a driver for the USB DAC that I own. Setting up foobar2000 with WASAPI exclusive mode and setting up MPC-HC with WASAPI exclusive mode / audio bitstreaming over HDMI is just another piece of cake so, this is yet another one of those classical-old PEBKACs that I was talking about earlier.
And who needs Sandboxie -- a bit of a hideous app if ever their was one -- Full Virtualisation with KVM/QEMU now is far more flexible (e.g pass thru hardware ease and dynamic redirection of both PCI and USB devices) make it a lot more useful than HYPER-V and in kernels 6.10.xx, 6.11 and the upcoming 7.0 it's super efficient.
The people who need Sandboxie-Plus are people who use it for the kind of stuff that cannot easily be done with virtualization.
Personally, I, use it mainly for concurrently (i.e., simultaneously) running multiple different instances of portable Firefox in parallel while at the same time also using FastCopy in conjunction with Primo Ramdisk with both DMM and compact mode set to enabled in it, i.e. to mitigate those specific delay times that would otherwise hold me back. DMM with compact mode prevents the ramdisk from using up a lot more RAM space than really should be needed to actually store the files you want on the ramdisk. The performance penalty that results from enabling these two settings in Primo Ramdisk is very small when compared to what can be gained from being able to programmatically select what data will be copied [with FastCopy] from SSD to the ramdisk and from the ramdisk to SSD (and when), and to programmatically select what data will be deleted from where (and when).
So, by choosing to run each different instance of portable Firefox in a different sandbox [that can either be located on SSD or be located on the ramdisk], Sandboxie-Plus lets me easily achieve a whole variety of things that cannot easily be achieved on Linux. BTW, Linux is by definition not super efficient, as it is seriously lacking in terms of supporting advanced powersaving capabilities found in modern PC hardware.
There's so much junk in that paper -- and as a linux user of over 25 years I haven't experienced anything like most of the rubbish in that paper. If you want where Windows falls down hideously is in networking - just read the Networking section on the Forum - many have problems getting consistent results even on the same hardware.
The only reason why you haven't experienced any of the flaws and shortcomings in Linux is because you haven't used Linux for anything that would have spontaneously revealed these same flaws and shortcomings of course. HomeGroup was removed from Windows 10 (version 1803). I don't have any networking problems in Windows 11. Maybe it's because I use the much underrated Asus RT-AX92U (2 Pack) that appeared in the Star Wars movie so, for all I know, the people on the forum having problems are having them because they can't use The Force. They just don't have enough midichlorians!
Until Windows 10 Windows security (even if you could call it that) was an absolute joke too.
A secure OS is not useful when you can't use it to do what you need. Linux software very often tends to be lacking in that regard, just not if you are lucky or you need to do little more than what could be considered to be among common, everyday normal tasks. Just because programs like GIMP and Krita can run on Linux, doesn't also mean that they can always be used as a replacement for Photoshop. They can be used for that, but they cannot always. I could give you a very long list of examples why compatibility on Linux blatantly sucks when compared to Windows, and that aren't necessarily related to hardware. There's just too many dead ends when searching for Linux software that lets me do what I need to do,
how I want to do it. Windows Update frequently breaks stuff, but usually there is a workaround or fix that is still relatively easy to find and apply. Whereas, on Linux, the type of stuff that tends to also break easily after an update has an impact that is often much more severe, and looking for a workaround or fix often turns out to be a fruitless effort, also in addition to this. Much to the point of being forced back onto Windows after valuable time repeatedly gone to waste with Linux.
I don't use Windows for anything besides my own personal hobby activities, though. For privacy and security reasons, and due to company policy, I am not allowed to publicly disclose details about what I use for work, just that none of it ever comes in contact with Windows (directly or indirectly), and that all of it is completely isolated from all my hobby related stuff.
By all means criticise an OS but that paper !!!!!!!
It's not a paper, just a blog article that I came across. But again, it is still very much accurate even today. It gets the point across that choosing to use Linux as a so-called "desktop OS" is still just a terrible idea for the vast majory of people using a PC in 2024, and especially on a modern PC. On a modern laptop, it's actually even worse. But if you do things that are similar to what I do on Windows, then moving to Linux is downright impossible with almost zero exceptions.
