Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
microslop started being cringe. tried linux on a whim. never looked back.
I got tired of Microsoft. I had seen that Linux was now good enough for what I wanted to so, so I decided to jump ship.
It wasn’t a quick decision. I only transitioned from Windows because I finally got around upgrading the PC.
So far? I mean, there was the kerfuffle with the AUR recently. And I still haven’t figured out a few issues here and there. But damn it just works and there is no worrying about updating or not updating or anything like it.
no worrying about updating or not updating
What? Isn’t the entire AUR attack a vast net of worry cast on all update managers and the digital supply chain? Linux has suddenly become much riskier to use in recent years, even as it’s also steadily improved otherwise. We need to be just as brutally honest about its pitfalls as much as we can praise it over its strengths, lest we deceive ourselves and others.
I never bought into the ecosystem. My first laptop had os/2 warp, then I moved to slackware for years. After that onto FreeBSD when I became a sysadmin. I was turned onto Ubuntu by one of our developers (12.04) and then ended up on Debian when I started gaming. Played guild wars and bf1942 for years until ea used anticheat that was Linux compatible, but disabled it, then moved away from games with a community so toxic it requires software to stop cheaters. I even had an employer pay for a windows xp cert for me and thought it was the jankiest operating system I’d ever used. It was impossible to update everything, the command line was neutered and it t was so slow compared to everything else I used.
Currently I run proxmox and debian on home servers and cachyos on my laptop and gaming computer. I buy computers with no os, or build from scratch where I can and only choose games based on Linux compatibility. I don’t have a need for windows because I’ve never used it for anything besides software testing. I never understood how windows and a FreeBSD clone became the two biggest players in the market.
Windows is like McDonald’s. No one really likes it, but it’s ubiquitous, you know you’re not going to like it, and you’re going to regret it as soon as you bite into it, but you expect that, so you choking it down doesn’t seem so bad. It’s convenient and a lot of other people eat from there, so you try to convince yourself that it’s acceptable for dinner and eat it anyway.
What can I say? I wanna be the very best, like no one ever was. To catch them all is my real quest, to train them is my cause.
Freedom. Having my computer not actively work against me.
Privacy performance and fun
i wanted to try something new
I had bought a magazine with a CD-ROM inside… Something called Slackware was written on it.
- FOSS. I’m a software engineer and making the world a better place and helping others is why I love my job and what I study. FOSS is the thing that can make tge world a better place and help others.
I also have a plethora of technical reasons, but I’m sure others will cover them. Just this ideological and philosophical reason is enough for me to be using Linux.
It’s better.
It’s better.
Windows bugged Out more and more. I am Just annoyed by the Bad Performance.
Troubleshooting in windows is also a pain. When I’ve learned how easy the Switch can be done, the Deal was sealed.
This. With Linux there are lots of ways to troubleshoot problems. With Windows it always comes back to reinstalling the software, drivers, updates, trying different settings desperately, reinstalling Windows.
100%. I always tell people that the biggest difference between windows bugs and Linux bugs is that for linux I can almost guarantee that its my fault. I’ve ran a command or installed a program that has issues. Which also means I can fix it.
FOSS and copyleft: I want software built for the good of the public, with good intentions. Anything with corporate licensing us off the table, and ideally so are non-copyleft open source programs as corporations will hijack them for their benefit and privatization.
UNIX Like: It is my preferred workflow for development and everyday use. The windows paradigm is messy, convoluted, and inconsistent by comparison.
Fast, free, customizable: all nice to haves connected to the big two above
Because window is genuinely more of a pain to use in 2026.
Freedom and customization. I’m a pretty laid back guy but one of the few things I’m super anal about is UI and navigation. I’m sure there’s a million reasons why windows chose the UI/UX elements it has along with its (lack of) navigation controls, but I can’t fucking stand it. With Linux I can rip the whole thing apart and rebuild it exactly how I want.
On the other hand my wife is in no way technical and just wants it to work. So I rolled mint and she has barely noticed the difference. Options are good.
Man, I wanna see your artistry over at !unixporn@lemmy.ml!
