I run Windows 11 as host and various other OSes including Ubuntu as virtual machines. Lately while I was upgrading Ubuntu the host crashed for some reason and restarted. This was the equivalent of switching off the computer during upgrading and left Ubuntu with a lot of broken packages. I Googled how to fix it and tried some commands at the Terminal but there were too many errors and unsolved dependencies the repair halted. Like a typical Windows user my next thought was to do an in-place upgrade/repair. Just a small detail, this is NOT supported on Ubuntu and probably other distros! For God's sake! I then booted with the Ubuntu ISO just in case I had better chance to repair Ubuntu from there. To my surprise there is no equivalent of "repair" as there is in Windows Setup USB. So I selected "Try Ubuntu" to load the live USB system and followed a complicated list of commands to manually mount the Ubuntu partition, link each system folder to the appropriate path and, finally, attempt the appropriate commands to repair broken packages. No such luck, I had exactly the same result, the repair halted because there were too many errors and dependencies. So my only option was to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch. No way I was going through all this trouble again. Since I already had created a Zorin OS virtual machine out of curiosity, I preferred to just delete the Ubuntu virtual machine and reclaim my valuable hard disk space.
Try saying that again that Linux is user friendly. You might persuade the novice and ignorant users, but not me! I don't believe anything until I have confirmed it myself. And up to now the only thing I have confirmed is that Linux is lightyears behind Windows for being user friendly. So don't just believe Linux fans, check for yourself before switching from Windows to Linux. Take your time, use it at least one month before deciding. "Who is in a hurry stumbles", as why say in Greek.
I don't download from the Microsoft Store anyway.
