Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
IT worker, close to 50 years old, only ever could afford low-mid range tech, gamer. Been using windows for over 30 years and linux for 8. Linux works better than windows and it allowed me to improve my tech skills beyond a desktop machine.
Because Windows works as dumbest os for now
Sound randomly staying off, micro sometime works, sometime not, if I try to touch sounds its sometimes just slutter all the system. I checked on viruses by free and paid subscriptioned and-viruses but founs nothing. So the best way to heal was to reinstall system. And I am do this. CachyOS going great, more faster and stable for several years even with bleeding edge updates
I switched to Linux full time because I didn’t like Windows Xp. Windows has only gotten worse since then and Linux has only gotten better.
Same reason as with Google Android. These genocide supporting companies take the liberty to collect and sell my data, manage my hardware and frequently break core functionality with updates to push their slop on me, while adding ads to EVERYTHING. Most updates are not even about security. There is like a 100 reasons, really. I could sum it up as “annoying”.
At first privacy and just being tired of microsoft and all but I’ve found the process rewarding.
Had an old laptop with win xp and tried out Ubuntu instead of moving to vista which was terrible.
I still dual booted Windows 7 for many years on my main PC but at some point that was too bloated and I moved permanently to Ubuntu and later Arch.
As a programmer I got to experience the evolution of almost all tools support going from back then “Windows install instructions, Mac install and Linux - you’re on your own” to now: “Linux, maybe Mac… and Windows, just use our Linux VM”!
Pissed off on windows 11. Couldn’t change things I needed or wanted. Didn’t allow for basic shit. Kept on giving me ads and other fucking annoying things. Broke a lot slow and pathetic. Wanted a fucking proper start menu back again the place I been using it for last 30 fucking years. Updates took forever and ever and often broke everything and have to reinstall. Can’t disable auto update ad settings kept resetting each update.
I just wanted a simple computer that just worked. Turned on and just worked every time. Nothing changes without me changing them. Simple and intuitive.
I tried windows again as a duel boot. It wiped broke my Linux partition because micro crap hates people. Never ever going back unless it’s a dedicated machine for the 2 games I rarely play that work slightly better on Windows.
Rather never play games or use the Internet then switch back to windows.
EDIT : got me so mad my Grammer and spelling went out the window. Lol
Skill issue
Took Windows apart until i couldn’t anymore what i wanted, because it broke it’s fickle update process nad i realized, i’m fighting against the system here. That’s where i switched 100% to Linux.
You do realize that it’s common for Desktop Linux users to not update because it’s more prone to breakage than Windows right?
No?
And also, Linux package mamagers don’t just stop doing anything, because you’ve removed some speech dispatcher package.
Its’s free/open source, I get not shitty “upload to the cloud” and generally forced to stuff I don’t want, it has the super button where it shows all the apps and I can click right on it, I don’t need a task bar. Also sticked to it when I was in college and now it became my main OS.
I am using Linux since the 90’s, so my reasons might be different from “to leave Windows”.
I started coding at an early age, so for me, having access to all my tools free-of-charge was a big plus. Add to that the possibility of read the source code of everything, the learning potential was mind blowing.
runs well on my potato pc, infinite customization, transparent and easy to inspect, made by nerds
Because Windows 11 will never touch hardware I own. I’ve been using it at work for several years, I’ve experienced first-hand their utter disdain for users, and privacy.
I care what my computer does the same way I care about what my brain does. Since my computer is just an extension of my brain it needs to be transparent and ownable.
wait till some trillionare puts microchips in a bunch of people’s brains.
Because Microslop slowed down my computer to the point of uselessness.
I just like a working, customizable PC that I’m in control of. KDE Plasma Desktop is everything Windows should have been, and it’s actually for me to control, it’s free, and it doesn’t push BS on me. Fedora btw
This.
