Lemmy is so Linux-focused and people are surprisingly opinionated about it.
I’ve self hosted for a while but never used linux desktop. Just this week I just set up dual boot on my laptop with the intention of using it 90% Linux 10% windows 10. Its been great so far & I’m enjoying the learning curve finding alternatives to what I’m used to (some of which I’m sure I can’t run on Linux - Traktor & several other more obscure things). Lots to learn but good fun & the lack of AI horseshit plus the OS not spying feels liberating.
The very first software I installed (Brave) recommended to use terminal which didn’t bother me in the slightest but it may be intimidating/offputting for mainstream.
I use windows 11 at work & at a friends who needed help. It’s absolutely loathsome, everytime I open anything there’s stupid irritating notifications & popups getting in the way when it tries to “help". Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows in our house
people are surprisingly opinionated about it.
Getting repeatedly burned by soulless multibillion dollar comanies tends to do that to a person.
I think there’s plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don’t notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.
Like how to disable today’s forced ai or kernel level anticheats being totes ok
Oh yeah I’m still using Win10 because tbh I’m too lazy to get into linux
Everytime when I see someone has windows problem you can be sure at least a opinated Lemmy user recommend them to uninstall windows and use Linux instead.
This is not always the best solution.
If the machine is from work or school you can’t simply install anything you want.
Maybe the user has other programs/hardware that work only on windows and install Linux would cause more problems. I know you could use wine, virtual machines or other tricks but some stuff don’t work there.
Sometimes the “just use linux”-advice is posted as a meme. A non tech savy person would not understand this meme and could feel they are not being taken serious.
Even as a Linux evangelist, I had to switch one of my systems back from Linux to windows because I couldn’t get a couple specific games to run on it because it was an old HP business box and hit that lovely trap of the system being too old for the current OS, but the graphics card isn’t supported on the couple older OSes I tried. So I installed windows 10 and called it good.
Probably could have kept trying and found something that worked, but at a certain point it’s just easier to deal with windows than constantly tinker with a secondary box for my kid who just wants it to work.
Mac for personal, Linux for work. Been that way for over 20 years. They tried to force us to switch to new windows machines (we’re a linux shop) and i said i’d quit first. They tried to sell the WSL crap… i showed them how my 8 yr old machine ran circles around their new windows laptop. I’m still running linux. Every ounce of my being hates windows. Mac just works. Linux (for me) just works. Linux can be a bit fiddly at times. But once it’s working, it just works.
My main, high spec audio production laptop is running Windows, my work device is a Mac, I have a Chromebook for when I’m working out, and I have an old Dell running Linux mint which has become my main beater laptop. I guess you can say I’m ambidextrous.
I don’t have a computer - I just use my phone for Samsung Dex and my tablet (which I think might actually be Linux-based or something. I’m a tech noob).
Otherwise, Windows for work.
I use Windows 11, macOS, and Fedora Workstation. I’ve never understood why some people make their OS choice part of their identity.
Is it considered “part of my identity” because I mention Linux every couple months at work? I’m known as a Linux guy at work and I see nothing shameful about it at all. When alternatives suck and everyone knows it, there’s nothing wrong with mentioning a better way here and there. If I wedged it into conversations constantly that would be annoying but I don’t.
Windows / Android here
You post doesn’t reference any OSes I don’t use.
Windows and Linux.
There are Windows and Microsoft communities but they aren’t very active
I’ve used Macs for 20 years (fuck I’m old)
I did get a Linux PC last year though and it’s great too!
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