Every single linux tutoriel ever :

Do theses steps :

Ste p 1:
Ste p 2:
Step 3 :

Reboot your system.

System doesn't boot anymore

AT THE FUCKING END in SMALL TEXT : "Oh you can't follow these instruction if you are applying changes to system disk. here is the right wasy : <link>"

Stupid linux communty. Warning ashould be AT THE FUCKING begining.

Most actions on Linux actually don't require rebooting. Basically only kernel updates do, and maybe systemd. Unlike windows, I should add.

As always, many problems can be avoided by reading the documentation. If you don't and mess up, you should blame yourself.

@ess3sq what ? I didn't reboot my windows machine in weeks.

It only reboots for automated updates and it restores all my workspace.

Unlike linux, needs to be reboot every fucking 5 days or else SQLserver is just eating free space for nothing. (I know, I know, blame the app, not the system. But when notepad crash, everyone blames windows).

It's not windows vs linux vs MaCoS. It just frustrating that MOST infos on linux are NOT part of official doc and you need to like combien 10 different links to make something work, while on windows, same actions are made in 3 clicks without reading any doc.

Example here change size of system partition.

Windows : Right click => Disk manager => drag slider where you want it to be. Apply. Done

Linux : 15 fucks partion command which actually BREAKS GPT if you apply them on system disk...

@NoToJavaScript so you are correct I think when you say that there is no unified documentation and you have to read up on different sources. The exception is the arch wiki, which actually provides information on essentially anything Linux-related if you are willing to go find it, including tutorials.

You are also correct about the click a couple times on windows aspect, while on Linux you need to run a several commands (which you hopefully read up on in advance!). This most certainly makes it more complicated to less experienced users and guards the doors to the kingdom in the sense that new users can't comfortably use these tools. Unless there are GUI wrappers.

In my experience, gparted has actually always worked very well as a wrapper for fdisk, fstab and family.

@NoToJavaScript first time I've ever heard of anyone complaining about having to reboot Linux and think Windows doesn't reboot too much.

It's like finding a guy say the Arctic is too hot but the desert is just right...

Rebooting the OS because an application is using too much memory and then blaming a family of distros with a shared kernel is pretty idiotic. You should learn how to use your own tools.

@ess3sq
"unlike windows, i should add"

it's not the year 2000 anymore, i should inform you.

@NoToJavaScript or…. Just use gparted? But nice try trying to paint Linux as “hard”🙄

I know we are all in a hurry, but after the second time or so, I learned to read all the instructions before making changes to a machine I cared about.

sorry, if you do stuff without _completely_ reading the instruction first, you should stick to.... no. not windows. but to "staying offline".