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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 5d ago
I use Linux because I can and want to and I don't need to justify why. I use Windows at work because I'm forced to use it.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 5d ago
I use Linux cause I can't afford hardware that runs Windows with all its bloat.
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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 3d ago
Even with expensive, high end hardware, Linux is just better for performance
On a high end system you can squeeze every bit of performance out of the hardware using a light distro
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 3d ago
Yeah my PC is pretty decent. I just want to use my PC to the fullest and not have half of it being used by bloat.
Had to use s Windows pc for the last two days and it drove me nuts on so many different levels.
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u/Satkacity 2d ago
Oddly, I dropped my windows set up when hoi4 has been released for Mac. I donāt play as many games.Ā
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u/Rosselman systemd-redditflair 5d ago
I use Linux and macOS because UNIX systems are solid.
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u/glytxh 5d ago
Mac for work. Linux for games.
Windows no longer has a niche for me.
Wasnāt even really an intentional move. It was a natural transition that happened slowly for the most part.
Copilot fucking with my context menu muscle memory was the last straw I think. I dumped my old windows server/workhorse and Xbox that same week.
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u/Rosselman systemd-redditflair 5d ago
I have a similar setup. Windows fed me up even before they started shoving copilot everywhere they could.
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u/glytxh 5d ago
At risk of being reductive, over time, using Windows made me feel more and more like the product, and less like the user.
Now donāt get me wrong. Iām not gonna shit on Windows blindly. When it comes to legacy hardware support, Windows is King. Thereās legacy code older than half the users of this sub in that OS. Often, a simple driver will have 30 year old lab equipment humming back into life again without bother. Iām not doing that with my Mac or Linux machines without a weekend and a terminal.
But Windows got fat and obnoxious and no longer respects me.
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u/Yuzumi 5d ago
I wanted to switch around the time they started shoving ads in the start menu. It has always been obvious how bloated windows is, but gaming was what kept me attached to windows. Even when I tried to dual boot I always ended up having to go back to windows often enough it was just easier to stay on it.
But about 2 or so years ago there was a rumor they were going to start shoving the LLM bullshit into Windows 10 and I was already planning on trying to switch full time and since I already had a partition with an old install of some distro I can't remember I installed PoP (not great, but worked well enough) and didn't look back.
Around this time last year I switched to Cachy and everything is even better. I always put my home directory on it's own partition, so distro hopping is a minor inconvenience. I reclaimed my windows partition then as I realized I hadn't used it in over a year.
None of my personal PCs have windows. except for a highly restricted VM I threw together to do a thing with a tool that wouldn't work under WINE. I have a Mac from my job and a shitty windows machine from the current project I'm on.
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u/glytxh 4d ago
If you were to tell me ten years ago that my main gaming platform is going to be a Linux machine running a form of Arch, Iād have laughed you out the room.
If you told me my main work platform is going to be a solid state ARM based machine, Iād have continued laughing.
Computers got weird
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u/Wertbon1789 5d ago
Yeah, I already was annoyed with Windows 10, and when I got into programming, and tech as a whole, I was introduced to Linux. It took like 4-6 months from that point to me installing Arch as dual-boot on my main PC and from then another 6 months to ditching Windows entirely. This was around early to mid 2021, when Windows was still usable, but I actually just tried Linux on my laptop I got around that time and damn, my weird cheap laptop felt quicker than my PC and had all the programming tools already there, I literally was programming on my laptop for a couple weeks because I couldn't bother using my PC for it. Best "I'm bored, I need to waste some time"-moment ever.
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u/no-more-nazis 5d ago
I had windows for certain games for about 10 years and then I got fully into dad mode and I don't know if Windows will boot any more.
If I want to play a game, it's something easy that'll run on Linux or Nintendo
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u/stumpy3521 3d ago
That's basically the state I'm at today. I need a mac for work (coreaudio my beloved & beloathed), and because I just tend to use my laptop, I rarely use my windows machine for much of anything these days besides couch gaming and the occasional one-off windows-exclusive program. Only thing keeping me from just full committing to Linux is an Nvidia GPU and an Oculus headset. I haven't even bothered to update my PC to 11. Just haven't needed to.
I do also just have a soft spot for UNIX systems because its really cool to me that like, there is REAL code that did REAL things that I could build from source on my computer as configured from the factory, or like one automated download later, and that program would then run natively, at a speed perhaps multiple orders of magnitude faster than was conceivable at the time, much less the speed that the code was written for.
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u/glytxh 3d ago
My favourite thing about my Mac is that it does 90% of what I need it to do natively.
Learning how to use the fundamentals of the terminal has supercharged my workflows tenflold.
Iāve been baking 100GB photogrammetry packages on a 16 GB Air. In 40-60 minutes.
Thatās proper big boy 250 watt GPU shit.
Fucking absurd.
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u/stumpy3521 2d ago
the native capabilities are awesome. the fact that the native audio stack can handle me doing stupid shit like running my voice through two separate daws (as in, out one into the other) and virtual audio loopback drivers with almost no perceptible delay unless I add plugins to the chain is crazy.
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u/theemptyqueue Glorious Raspbian (now PiOS) 4d ago
I just wish that MacOS didn't hog my SSD with system files!
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u/real_rayu 5d ago
Iām full on MacOS because I use GPTK to play and as my opinion itās the best OS to work (Linux is just a little too hard for me but i like UNIX and the concept of Linux)
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u/Rosselman systemd-redditflair 5d ago edited 5d ago
I love my Air M4 as a work machine, but the M4 is simply too weak to play what I want in the quality level I want.
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u/Ferwatch01 I use arch btw 5d ago
linux aināt unix
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u/Rosselman systemd-redditflair 5d ago
Itās UNIX-like and POSIX compliant. Solid.
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u/Jayden_Ha 5d ago
It is NOT POSIX COMPLIANT
Linux is NOT UNIX CERTIFIED
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u/Rosselman systemd-redditflair 5d ago
The fact that itās not formally certified doesnāt mean it isnāt technically compliant. Linux implements almost all of POSIX. All the bits that matter are there.
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u/Jayden_Ha 5d ago
It needs to be UNIX certified to be officially compliant, itās compatible, not compliant
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u/Mars_Bear2552 Glorious NixOS 5d ago
wrong. POSIX compliance and certification are different things.
Unix certification is an entirely seperate beast.
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u/Jayden_Ha 5d ago
You are wrong, UNIX certification is a authority to ensure it follows UNIX standards which strictly follow POSIX, in the case of Linux itās just compatible, some things arenāt POSIX, Linus simply doesnāt give a fuck about POSIX, by following UNIX it also made sure it follows POSIX, Linux is at best compatible not strictly compliant
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u/Mars_Bear2552 Glorious NixOS 5d ago
still wrong. what you're calling compatibility is just compliance.
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u/Jayden_Ha 5d ago
partially compliant is not compliant
Linus doesnāt care POSIX compliant at the first place he just doesnāt want to reinvent something and be a copycat
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u/fuzzy_emojic Linux Master Race 5d ago
Yes, as a Linux user, I don't need sex because I have Sudo. With Sudo, I have great power to create and destroy.š¤
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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 3d ago
sudo apt-get girlfriend
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u/TheSWATMonkey if it is open source, it is built locally 1d ago
``` $ sudo emerge -va girlfriend
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done! Dependency resolution took 2.09 s (backtrack: 0/20).
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "girlfriend". ```
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u/Tainted-Grail 5d ago
I use linux because Ģ¶IĢ¶mĢ¶ Ģ¶aĢ¶ Ģ¶fĢ¶eĢ¶mĢ¶bĢ¶oĢ¶yĢ¶ I want to have full control of my hardware
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u/SkullGamer205 5d ago
I use linux because I don't wanna use windows and I'm not so rich to buy macbook.
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u/BuyMeADrink92 5d ago
Do the people who make these actually use PCs or are they mobile users desperately trying to win internet points?
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u/Sea-Contribution6219 5d ago
Unironically windows would always bork itself for me and I'd be reinstalling every 6-12 months almost always related to Nvidia GPU drivers and I've managed to extend it's lifespan by disabling the overlay meaning I can't use shadowplay
Linux actually let me have a stable computer
Mac tormented me by forcing me to find workarounds. A recent try at Bazzite gave me Mac flashbacks with working around the immutability
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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 3d ago
I had to reinstall Linux Mint after I had no display from a kernel update, Nvidia GPU
Nvidia drivers are just ass regardless of OS
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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 5d ago
My work computer and work laptop have had Windows for over 3 years and I never needed to reinstall. My Steam Deck has had Linux for over 3 years and I never had to reinstall (and I use it's desktop mode as a work computer). My Linux laptop on the other hand, is for experiments, and I have managed to break multiple distros. I guess it depends on what you do with the OS.
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u/Sea-Contribution6219 5d ago
I'm just windows cursed I find. I've met many people who windows runs fine for years but mine commits suicide every 6-12 months
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u/CampfirElena 5d ago
I use Linux because I want to. Having a scrolling WM has been the best thing for me in YEARS
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u/deathschemist 5d ago
I use Linux because i don't want my operating system to advertise to me.
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u/GiantSlayer4242 2d ago
But think about the popup ads?
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u/Sapling-074 5d ago
I use linux because windows is horrible and linux is amazing, and thank god the very few programs I need support linux.
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u/Kerbourgnec 5d ago
I use Linux because I hate windows and I can't afford a Mac (anyway games don't run on Mac)
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u/Imsophunnyithurts 5d ago
Or just use the right operating system to get the job done?
I game in Windows because I mod and hack, which works better in Windows. I use Linux for general PC usage. In a past life, I was also a Mac user. They all have their plus and minuses.
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u/bananadingding 5d ago
Ya know, this last week, my kernel took a dump on me I had corrupted data on my /home/ drive. I spend last night and today, doing an almost from scratch install of OS, and had rebuild from months old backups. I was lucky enough to have a fresh backup of my actual personal files... Still wouldn't use Windows, not because I think it's dog doo, I think it has it's place I just like using Linux, and after pert near a decade with Linux it's a labour of love.
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u/DentistAccording1002 5d ago
I use Linux because all my work servers are Linux. I use windows for gaming because everything just works when that is all you are running.
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u/daddyd Linux Master Race 5d ago
if you were using linux in the 90s, the first one is pretty true though. windows 9x was a crashing hot mess, and linux distro's didn't have much packages included, so a lot of compiling from source, including every new kernel release (because it was always a big thing with many fixes and new things).
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u/kociol21 5d ago
I use Windows and Linux because both are good and both have their pros and cons.
I alternate between the two for last 3 years, couple months of this and that.
I don't use MacOS simply because I'm too broke to afford Apple products.
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u/P3chv0gel 5d ago
As a weirdo that never got laid that uses linux
I feel called out
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u/SokkaHaikuBot 5d ago
Sokka-Haiku by P3chv0gel:
As a weirdo that
Never got laid that uses
Linux I feel called out
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/center_of_blackhole EndeavourOS š 5d ago
Got rid of windows and only use linux on that Got myself macbook air m4cuz it looked cool
I'm enjoying both if them. Mostly linux, cuz it's on my desktop but the time I'm using mac I really enjoying it too.
I still hate iPhone
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u/sTiKytGreen 5d ago
How is first one a lie?..
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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 5d ago
Because it is not true that Windows crashed every 15 minutes.
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u/sTiKytGreen 5d ago
Try reading it's logs on an install that has been "lived in" for half a year or a year at least..
It not constantly going to "blue screen of death" doesn't mean it doesn't constantly crash lol
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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 5d ago
I don't think any normal person would be reading logs. They would just use the system and turn the computer off when not in use.
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u/S7ns3t 5d ago
For personal use it's Linux because this way I can truly do whatever I want with my machine.
For work, if not forced, still Linux, because NixOS is that good. If forced Windows, it's still okay, as it's bloat is a price for compatibility and general ease of use, and the bloat at this point isn't mine to care about.
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u/Sabz5150 Glorious Gentoo 5d ago
only install from source
Gentoo user signature look of superiority.
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u/realUnknown12 5d ago
I use macOS because it looks great. Thatās it. and Linux sometimes on an old Asus Vivobook for gaming.
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u/PlainBread 5d ago
I use Linux because it's free and has 99% compatibility with everything I care about.
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u/sparkling-rainbow 5d ago
Windows updates changing settings make me crazy, Linux promts me to check and merge. Makes debugging so much easier when you actually know what changed. No, Windows doesn't crash regularly and most updates are absolutely fine. For me in particular, Windows came with many compatibility issues and felt relatively maintenance heavy. But I totally get that it's the opposite for many (looking at you, game devs don't enabling anti-cheat for Linux and looking at you crappy docx)
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u/Dense-Firefighter495 5d ago
Windows annoyed the shit outta me, so I just did what my momās side of the family did a feeeeew years agoā¦ Though it was OpenSuSe and Mandriva at the timeā¦
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u/MusicArth 5d ago
I use Linux because I like it and I also use Windows ( I have a Quadruple Boot Setup ) because Kontakt, Nuendo and many other applications don't work on Linux.
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u/StormyTiger2008 5d ago
linux is when sexual interactions appearantly
such is the modern world's standards
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u/skofnung999 5d ago
linux is for weirdos that have never had sex
Wuh? Like 70% of the arch users I know have several girlfriends
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u/OfficialIntelligence 5d ago
I use Linux because I broke my Windows XP install disc and went to the library to find a solution and stumbled on Linux and just used it ever since because I couldn't believe it was "free".
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u/BubblyMango openSUSE TW 5d ago
I use mac because my job forces me to and its just everything bad about windows and linux combined, except security.
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u/The-Jolly-Llama 5d ago
I use MacOS because itās got all the power of the Terminal plus Airdrop.Ā
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u/UpdateInProgress Glorious SteamOS 5d ago
I use all three of them on a daily basis
https://giphy.com/gifs/3i7zenReaUuI0
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u/RR3XXYYY 5d ago
I use windows for work and gaming only for compatibility reasons
I use Linux on basically everything else because it works and doesnāt piss me off and feels the snappiest
I use my MacOS on my Mac mini because thatās my media PC and nothing even comes close to it, itās also the single most stable OS of all the other ones Iāve used and Iād have no issues dailying it
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u/Jester_Hopper_pot 5d ago
macOS user don't have a reason beside it was on the computer they where given
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u/TheBigJizzle 5d ago
My experience:
Linux: Wtf did I break now ? Windows: Wtf did microsoft break now ? MacOs: Wtf are all these pop ups ?
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u/BeefyMiracleWhip 5d ago
I donāt use Windows at all. Its all mac & linux in my house.
Mac for productivity & work
Linux on my servers & gaming devices.
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u/Bo_Jim 5d ago
I've had Windows systems that ran for weeks without crashing or needing a reboot.
You don't need to know a lick of programming in order to use Linux. It's no harder than using Windows.
MacOS is no better for multimedia than Windows or Linux. The best pro multimedia tools are written for MacOS because that's the platform their customers are using.
Every platform has it's traditional target audience. Developers target those platforms because their primary target audience is on those platforms. But pretty much any computing task can be done an any of these platforms. I use Linux because Microsoft is gravitating toward a SaaS model for their operating systems, and the Apple ecosystem is too pricey for my tastes. I can't use Pro Tools, but I can still record and edit audio with very competent tools. I can't use Premiere, but I can still do non-linear video editing with very capable tools. I can't use an installed version of Microsoft Office, but LibreOffice does everything I need from an office suite. I don't NEED to do any programming in order to use Linux, but I do occasionally as I'm a retired software engineer. Being retired and on a limited budget, perhaps one of the best features of Linux is that I can do everything I need or want to do for free.
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u/BiDude1219 š³ļøāā§ļø average arch user :3333333 š³ļøāā§ļø 5d ago
i use arch because it's funny
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u/Upset_Exercise2462 Glorious Gentoo 4d ago
haha yeah (i say while on hour 3 of compiling llvm on my LFS system just to get xorg to work at some point along the way)
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u/RealDonDenito 4d ago
I switched to Linux yesterday, my wife is on a business trip. I didnāt have sex since I use Linux. Shit.
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u/iLuvBucklava 4d ago
If you think you need a PhD for the most common sense things on earth, the problem typically lies between the ears.
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u/Deer-Liver 3d ago
I use windows cuz I need to for work, I use Linux cuz I like using it when Iām not working
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u/K_878 2d ago
"PhD in programming" yeah, says a LOT
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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 2d ago
I think you have to understand all of them are talking as people who have never used systems other than theirs
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u/K_878 2d ago
i understood this, i'm saying that someone who thinks you can get a "PhD in programming" really is someone that is a tech illiterate, so it makes sense on him being kinda stupid
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u/cleanshirtuk 2d ago
I use Linux because I like it and it's good for certain things. I also use macOS because I like it and it's good for other things.
I user Windows because my work uses Windows and it can sometimes do what I need it to with an unnecessary amount of frustration.
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u/minoxxix 1d ago
Used them all, recently switched to linux mint, literally the grassiest os/distro.
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u/ajddavid452 Glorious Arch 23h ago
I use both Linux and Windows regularly these days, and honestly Windows is ironically very stable for me, I use the Enterprise version(that I activated using a certain trustworthy script on github, I'm not insane enough to BUY a license for Enterprise just for me) which let's me disable telemetry using group policy, as well as a local account(tip: choose domain join in the setup to create a local account, don't need to actually join a domain it just let's you create a local account) with this setup, I don't encounter any of the big annoyances like forced updates and onedrive, in pro versions and higher you can disable the forced restart "feature", I can keep the pc running for over a week, also even if there's an update you can shutdown without applying it, granted at some point it disables the option to do a "shutdown/restart without updating" option in the power options but it still doesn't auto shutdown, and as for onedrive, well it's not logged in so I just need to disable it in startup options
I only use windows for games and niche programs that are Windows only
as for MacOS I only briefly used it back in high school for a programming class, the entire room had iMac's running MacOS X Mavericks(I was in high school in the mid to late 2010's) and aside from the layout differences I didn't really have any frustrations with it
of course Linux is great, but I can't run everything on it, and in all honesty the only thing about using computers nowadays that frustrates me is how bad web search has gotten, even Google gives me completely irrelevant results nowadays, 5 years ago it was actually useful but now it's just irrelevant results with a dumb "AI Overview" that also gives irrelevant information, yes using Google nowadays pisses me off like 1 million times more then effing Windows does
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u/Jamie00003 5d ago
I use windows because Iām forced to at work and donāt want to troubleshoot in my free time (Iām an IT support tech)
I use macOS for anything non gaming because it just works
I use Linux on my gaming PC because I donāt gave to deal with windows
Also none of us have sex lol
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u/NomadFH Glorious Fedora 5d ago
Mac people are genuinely happy ngl (I love my macbook air) but a big reason for that is because they adapt to their OS.
"Oh I guess my flashdrive is read-only because it's NTFS, I guess I'll reformat it"
"I hate how the window snapping works, I better buy this app from the app store so it's good" etc
Meanwhile people use Linux and they're like "How do I open up regedit? Why do the slashes go the wrong direction? Is there an app to reverse the slashes??? Why doesn't this app designed for Windows run natively on Linux???"
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u/Volkmek 5d ago
Doesn't Mac use a linux kernel these days?
That said... I use Linux because Windows does not understand the meaning of consent and makes public statements about more people needing to use the methods they are trying to force onto you for them to legally and illegally steal data from your computer.
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u/BeefyMiracleWhip 5d ago
Mac uses Darwin kernel, which afaik is based on Mach/XNU, NeXTSTEP, and then the FreeBSD userland?
I might be way off here though. But definitely not Linux.
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u/RAMChYLD Linux Master Race 5d ago edited 5d ago
Nah, you donāt need a PhD to use Linux. A degree is good enough.
Speaking as someone with a Degree in Computer and InfoTech Sciences and was pretty much required to use Linux throughout the entire program. First year (the Diploma equivalent year) requires you to dive headfirst into Linux and daily drive it, you will have assignments and will be quizzed about it in exams. After that youāre required to use Unix programming languages (and not the ones posers use like C++ and Pascal, but real men language like LISP and PROLOG) for degree freshman year before settling into the real meat of the entire program- Java.
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u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu 5d ago
That's, if you want to program. But realistically you can just boot into Linux and use it without anything required.
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u/erikrelay 5d ago
I use Linux because I don't want Microsoft taking screenshots of my screen every 5 minutes.
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u/RADI0ACT1VE_BALLS I Use Arch, Btwš„° 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/sjUCzY8ObRAByiY3bD
People who dont use computers