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If you're ditching more popular social medias for less popular open source ones, you're probably already a Linux User.
not true. here i am using lemmy and i use windows and dont have any linux installed.
I'm not saying all who use lemmy use linux, I'm saying most who use lemmy are probably using linux.
This is like asking "where is White Culture?"
My sibling in Christ, its called the Mainstream.
Or "Why isn't there a straight community? Are the gays winning?"
"But when is white history month??"
Found the person reddit banned.
Why are there no closed source communities on open source reddit?
It’s like, there is a vegan community, but there isn’t a meat eaters community. We don’t need to spend a lot of time boring people telling them we use Windows, and how good Windows is.
Yet, you just felt the need to put 'Windows' and 'good' in the same sentence. Interesting 🤔
Sorry, threw out some bait and wanted to see what I caught 😉 🎣
I’ve been using both for about 20 years. I can honestly say most people can and should use both.
I just wiped a trash celeron pc that ran windows awful. I put Ubuntu 24 LTS on it and it screams. Took about an hour.
If you have old hardware that you want to extend the life of or repurpose, consider Linux before buying something new.
I don't understand. Why should people run windows?
Most of the corporate world runs mixed operating system environments. If you plan on working at a company, and will use a computer, chances are it’ll be Windows. Being able to use both is an advantage. In my 25 year IT career across all spectrum of industry, more Windows is used and Linux is niche. But the Linux users typically really know their shit. There’s a lot of skills carryover between the two operating systems. I could get into specifics if desired.
bec its easy to use,and has all software without "fixes" (wine). atleast those are my reasons for not using linux
because they want to see ads in their start menu, send their pictures to some MS servers and have their notepad.exe crawl and crash because of AI.
you know, all the fun stuf...
Also if they want malware infections through notepad.exe - I can probably accomplish that on Linux with Wine, but it would take more effort.
Edit: I might give up and just send the Malware author a few bucks, out of pity.
Or I want the hardware/software I paid for to work
There's a variety of reasons. I run Windows because my hardware doesn't work on any Linux I tried. I don't like it, but I don't really have a choice
No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.
Why is a MacOS related screenshot posted in a Linux community for a question about Windows?
MacOS is UNIX, Linux is UNIX, if I'm not mistaken.
Linux is software, windows is software, War Thunder is software so this comment is sponsored by war thunder
No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.
Linux could be unix if someone wanted to pay to have it certified. It's meaningless.
Hard to swallow pills: GNU is not Unix and Linux is just a kernel
Linux is unix-like.
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I guess because no one is passionate about it. It’s just something people are using because it came with their computer.
Here people are almost only talking badly about it. It’s not a good product but I wonder if it’s as bad as people on Lemmy make it sound.
Still I don’t want to waste time away from Linux to discover it by myself.
Windows is worse than people on lemmy make it sound.
There are folks who are passionate about Windows, but those folks are also highly unlikely to use something like Lemmy.
While I agree that they aren’t likely to be on Lemmy, even outside of Lemmy, I’ve never met one of them.
I just know people who don’t know there is something else.
Still it’s good for me to have to use (a debloated version) Windows at work, as it allows me to still know how to deal with it.
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