Yes... it's like default settings. The very action of changing a setting on any devices means you are a "power user". You made a conscious decision on how the device should behave and you suspect it can be done. Meanwhile the vast majority of users do not even consider this a possibility.

Windows users are not using a computer, they are doing another task that happens to required a machine, they don't learn about what it is, how it works, how it can be modified.

IMHO it was perfectly in the 70s when there was no laptop, desktop, mobile phone, mobile data. Now that one needs to use such infrastructure to interact with others, vote, pay bills, get access to culture, etc then I do believe computer literacy is not optional anymore.

I don’t get why people on Lemmy care so much about either of them so passionately, I passively see more Linux vs Windows in a week here than basically the rest of my life before joining this site. Is every other person here some kind of computer science enthusiast or something like that?

I have the privilege of never having to think about windows. Once in a blue moon I am forced to help someone using it and I am absolutely baffled at how anyone can accept to daily drive it. You all are in an abusive relationship and you have no idea.

This is true! Ignorance of Linux is the no1 reason people don't adopt it. This is doubly hard for Window-brains because the concept of choosing an OS is foreign to them. From their perspective it's your boss, your school, or your parents who choose your OS.

Large majority of windows users never have a single thought about Linux users because they don't know Linux exists.

The average Linux evangelist on Lemmy vastly overestimates the tech-saviness of the average person.

The reasons I use Windows instead of Linux:

1. I don’t really care that much
2. i’ve had my PC on windows for a long time and haven’t had any major issue with it
3. i’ve hard it’s a lot of work, especially when you already established a lot of things on windows
4. I suck at coding. Closest I can do is vibe coding and it is very shameful. I can read and somewhat understand what code does, but I don’t have the time or patience to learn. Especially since there are so many languages and my school tried to teach Java for 2 school years, HTML for 1, and CSS for 1.

The difference between Linux and Windows is that Windows is being made terrible on purpose.

MacOS users in this post:

Oh.

Well, the exact reverse of this was and has been my mental state for years now, untill a seemingly insecure Windows user here apparently felt the need to insinuate the opposite is actually case.

Evangelizing?

No, I don't do that.

I answer some questions that some people have, where they're initiating things.

Occasionally this elicits a REEEE type response from a Windows user... which I can usually counter with 'I actually used to work for MSFT... that's why I am now a linux user.'

Meanwhile MacOS users:

interpret as you see fit

Welcome to your daily post about how Linux users talk so much about themselves...

Surrounded by zero Linux users talking about themselves.

Linux? Isn't that the kid from the Charlie Brown cartoons that walks around holding a blanket?

The irony.

Windows users think about Linux all the time. "Why is this web site down?" "Whats happening with Cloudflare?" etc. They just don't realize it's Linux and don't notice it all unless it happens to stop working. Them not thinking about it isn't lack of concern or interest, it's complete ignorance of the reality they live in. In fact, they probably have a computer with a *nix derivative OS that they use every day, whether their smartphone is Android or iOS.

I use Windows 10, and I think about switching to Linux all the time. I just feel like i need atleast two whole days to backup all my important stuff, to wipe all drives clean, to config everything, but I just don't know when I have those 2-3 days