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Yes! Really, how do you even calculate base64 using Windows? With freakn Microsoft Edge!
Windows don't have preinstalled git, torrent, PDF reader, stresstest, whois tool, FTP client, C compiler, screen recorder, disk imager, markdown editor, 7zip/RAR/tar opener. Most Linux distros have it out-of-the-box and with smaller footprint.
Even Office. Office suite is not preinstalled on Windows, but on Linux is! But what is preinstalled is TikTok and Netflix download shortcut.
Office365 is 100% installed on Windows, to a fault. The average and above average use dgaf about all that other stuff.
Office365 in the menu is just a webview.
You fail to acknowledge that only a tiny fraction of PC users do anything resembling coding. The average user never ever needs a markdown editor or a C compiler.
Oh but average person don't care about C compiler, torrent client, blah blah blah.
Yes, they care. When they need help with their computer, call me and I have to install 10 different programs to do basic stuff. And I can't just type names of programs into package manager and install all at once, no no no.
I'd almost buy that as an argument if Windows wasn't 90% bloat. So much built in adware, and they allow OEMs to ship with their own adware on top as well.
Most of the things you say are missing are installed by default, though some require you to know how to use the command line. Which reminds me…how do you install the Netflix app on Linux? I’d like to watch some shows on my new laptop while I’m on the train.
You open a browser. Because Netflix app is just a webapp anyway.
Yeah, but can you do it offline/without an active internet connection - the preinstalled windows Netflix app can.
That's the problem with Netflix.
Powershell.
Last I checked, it does indeed have its own PDF Reader, whois tool, FTP client and screen recorder. It has a C compiler available but not installed by default.
Powershell. I checked and the command is like PS > [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String("YmxhaGJsYWg="))
Noone is going to actually use this. Why it can't be just "base64 -d" like on *nix?
For whois in Windows 11 search results points to a .exe program to download manually from Microsoft site. I didn't know they included recorder recently, my bad. FTP client I didn't know too, still it's a console client and no integration in Explorer.
It is true that it is a little obtuse. That's because the Powershell language is designed to be a fully fledged scripting language more akin to Python than the shell-like syntax of BASH, with all the advantages and disadvantages that entails. It's also true that cmd.exe (the BASH equivalent) is very underdeveloped when it comes to anything not directly sysadmin related.
No worries, it is a fairly recent addition.
They used to have a GUI client too, but it was built into the browser, and has been removed as of Edge 88.
That I did not know, apologies. How mystifying. You'd think at least a prompt to use a Winget command would make more sense.
Whoa hey, what about Xbox something-the-fuck and candy crush? I bet your Linix doesn't have that!
Windows 11 snipping tool can also screen record. Browsers can view PDFs these days.
Why would a standard user need any others? That would just be bloat to preinstall them.
I've never seen TikTok or Netflix preinstalled on a clean windows install. Are you sure your experience isn't from images setup by e.g. laptop sellers?