Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.
As a non technical user that has switched to Ubuntu from Windows, Linux is light years ahead. Any os without a decent package manager like apt or flatpak is unusable for me and that’s without mentioning the ads…
I use ArchLinux BTW, because
- It’s very minimal, no bloatware
- AUR
3. I feel superior - It just works™*
I use Debian because it’s what I’ve been using for the last twenty-two years.
This could be my comment lol.
ahah me too :)
I use Mint because it just works. I’m thinking of trying Endeavor tho
Linux mint. I stopped doing any gaming and Windows has become an advertisement platform rather than an OS.
Also Gaming on Linux works pretty well nowadays thanks to Wine and Proton, which is why I dropped my last Windows partition about 3 years ago.
Not that you can’t game on Linux! It’s better than ever now. /c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
Also using Linux Mint. The only game I’ve had serious trouble running is Sims 3, which barely runs in Windows.
Fedora
It kicks ass
I will join you on my next install. Been running Ubuntu for like 16-17 years, but I feel it’s time to try something else. Are you running the Gnome version? I will hop onto the KDE train myself.
I was pretty solid on Ubuntu from 2004 (used Red Hat and Debian before that) until last year when I just got fed up with some things never working. Love Fedora, haven’t had any issues.
Yeah I’m a GNOME user. I like KDE but I am just used to GNOME so I stick with it now.
Looks like we are switching for the same reason then. Feels comforting that you seem satisfied 🙂
Fedora KDE here :D
Welcome onboard!Thank you! Really looking forward to it
21 years on Linux, because master race
Are you aware that the term master race is borrowed from Nazi ideology?
Are you aware of r/linuxmasterrace?
Yes, and I dislike the term for the reason I mentioned
That’s the joke right? It’s just poking some fun at Linux users for feeling superior, I see no harm in it.
Windows 10 because I don’t want to deal with the hassle of anything else.
Yes and I won’t “upgrade” to Win11 for as long as possible. The computers at work have been changed to Win11 and for every single thing I find to be neat, I immediately (or delayed) find fifteen little things that annoy me.
So far, I have found one or two things that are neat about Win11
I’m lucky in that my computer thinks it’s too old (built in 2018) to run Win 11 so they aren’t hassling me about upgrading anymore like they did with Win 10.
And also because I grew up using Windows, and it’s the operating system that I am by far the most comfortable with. I’m just used to how everything in Windows works.
I’ve tried to use a couple of different Linux distros- I tried Ubuntu, and Debian, and one other I can’t remember. None of them felt as intuitive, none of them had all of the programs that I use every day, and it was just harder to do stuff on it. I work with linux (headless) every day because I do software development, but for my PC I just don’t want all the hassle of having to do so much manually.
And Mac is just right out (although I do use it for work because I don’t have a choice).
Well that clearly shows the community are mostly linux people. Nice. Early adoptors. Debian and POP here.
openSUSE Tumbleweed because it is the most reliable rolling release distribution I have used. I love the automatic btrfs snapshots and wish other distributions would have them setup out of the box.
Plus Geeko is the cutest mascot!
Have you found btrfs to be reliable? Especially if you’ve needed to do any rollbacks? I’ve been curious to try but ext4 has been so stable for me.
I actually have all 3.
A windows PC for gaming A macbook for my laptop An Arch Linux PC/Server that I use for most of my work and that hosts all my services
The “why” for each is probably pretty self-explanatory for each. I’m a firm believer in using the right tool for a given job, and I think Windows has the best gaming experience, Mac has the “best” laptops (for my own subjective value of “best”), and linux is the best for software development and service hosting.
In a perfect world I’d use linux for all 3, but while gaming on linux has gotten a lot better, it’s not quite “there” yet, and I just love the new Apple chips for laptops in terms of battery life, speed, and heat management
all 3
RIP BSDs
Kubuntu. I like KDE and Ubuntu was very easy to get into, so here I am.
Same. I use Xubuntu on my media server where I only occasionally need a GUI, but for the past few years I’ve been using KDE/Kubuntu as my daily driver and I enjoy it. It just works.
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I’m on MacOS for work, Linux Mint for personal computer.
I’ve been on MacOS all around for over a decade. I found that I liked the mental model better than Windows. I had tried linux at the time (Mandrake and Suse) but they didn’t quite feel like something I could use daily, when friends were on MSN Messenger for comms.
The company uses MacBooks for developers and I enjoy that experience.
For personal, I couldn’t justify the cost of a Mac for the limited amount I’m currently using a personal computer. A year ago I resurrected a computer from a junk drawer and put Mint in it. It’s been a great experience, but the hardware has aged and some things were tricky (like typing, and hearing audio). So I bought a 3-4yo refurb Dell business machine and popped Mint on it. Am happy.
Fedora with KDE for my work laptop and windows 10 for my gaming PC. I greatly prefer linux but had several problems getting it to work properly on that PC and then I had to run the games too.
As for Fedora, I chose it because I wanted a system that just worked out of the box. Since I don’t do games on that computer for the most part, it’s much easier. Ubuntu unfortunately hard broke several times on me for reasons that were probably my fault but I don’t entirely comprehend. Some were fixable but it wasn’t worth the trouble. Fedora has never had any major issues for me.
