Lemmy is so Linux-focused and people are surprisingly opinionated about it.
I’ve used all three OS, and I flat out prefer windows. I realize it’s a minority opinion here and that’s fine. People can use whatever OS works for them and as long as they are happy, good on them.
Ok so I don’t have any MAC machines and my primary daily driver for the past 10yrs has been Linux.
I’ve only got one Windows 10 MS Surface Pro laptop and I have to say that my Windows 10 Pro is unlike everyone else’s because I know exactly what to turn off and what to rename safely.
I prefer Linux but I don’t evangelise. Use what gets the job done the quickest.
I’ll switch to linux when it has something remotely comparable to AutoHotkey. Until then, I happily remain on windows. (Autokey and Python are not remotely comparable.)
wayland 💔
CrossMacro exists, granted I had to weave through a bunch of other macro softwares to land on this one as I was looking for something similar to Logitech’s G-Hub macro system.
I’ve got Windows 10 on a few machines at home, strictly out of inertia. LTSC packages too, so no plans to change over yet.
Everything I’ve acquired since then gets some flavor of Linux, though.
I have 3 Win11 PC’s and a Win11 laptop. My Plex server runs on Win11 as well. Rock solid.
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
interesting things to talk about
I’m here for the Star Trek memes and Dull Men’s Club. Interesting things? Pfft!
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.
I use everything.
Windows 10 still on my main desktop, although there is a Zorin nvme setup inside, just need to make the final change. Got a 3070 rtx a few years ago I barely get to use.
Windows server 2022 for my DNS/pinhole setup
Windows 10 LTSC for my seeding/downloading
Zorin on my main laptop
Zorin on my kids old renewed 12" MacBook air.
Windows 11 on my kids desktop with a local account. (he’s my guinea pig)
I just used opencore legacy patcher to put sanoma on a 2012 27" iMac that was meant to be recycled. Just ordered kit to take it apart and upgrade the hdd since it’s slow as fuck.
I have bazzite on an old Lenovo gaming laptop
Windows 11 for work
Husband uses genuine MacBook pro from 2016 or so
Truenas scale for my home file server and Plex media. Old secondhand AMD ryzen 7 3700x and as much ram I could find from recycling old devices. 4x 20TB drives I bought refurb in 2024 when I rebuilt it all, had had this thing almost 20 years, just upgrading as needed
Truenas scale (second) for my backups with Veeam, secondhand AMD ryzen 5 4500 and 32G recycled RAM.
Proxmox server for testing fun things.
I love dabbling in everything and keeping old hardware alive. Nearly all my hardware is from clients that needed their devices wiped and recycled. I destroy their data and save what I can for fun/education. Things that are just too old or unreliable or unsupported for businesses are great.
I wipe and reload many I can’t use, give them away. I think that’s all my stuff.
Work: windows laptop. It’s fine.
Home: dual-boot. More windows time than Linux generally (I’m almost afraid to “admit” that on this forum, ha)
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.
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 all three. Hopping between them made me appreciate the effort that went into commercial systems a lot more, from UX to compatibility to forward thinking.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040513-00/?p=39353
Same here. Have been using all three for 3+ decades. Have also dabbled in BeOS, Amiga OS, the other unixes, CP/M, and other forgotten platforms.
I find most of the complaints about windows to be way overblown, company policies aside. If you invest a lttle time setting up your environment properly, using things Sophia script, then you can have a very functional, stable, non-telemerty broadcasting Windows system.
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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.
Oh yeah I’m still using Win10 because tbh I’m too lazy to get into linux
