I went from windows before the millenia to going mac in the aughts to back to windows but im linux now. mac was awesome when they bragged about being larger and more powerful with more ports and was big on the command line and had a server version and such. I honestly should have moved to linux years earlier but I sorta was worried about losing what you get day to day for work and my wife. My wife is still on windows. I have been trying to get her to change but she won't and im finally. that tears it you can come along when you want but im not going to be keeping up with windows stuff anymore unless its work related.
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Apple/macOS is my main 'home' for work, creation, and general use. At work, I also deal with Linux a decent amount running a few k8s clusters. At home, I use a Windows gaming machine but literally only use it for gaming.
Of course there are.
It also shouldn't be surprising that something like Lemmy, an open-source project originally aimed at tech geeks and still used by a LOT of tech geeks, is filled with Linux users. Linux is an open-source project used by a lot of tech geeks.
Mac at home, Mac/Linux at work. Though I suppose Linux has its foot in the door at home also via the Steam Deck. I haven't spent too much time on its desktop though. Mostly, I do stuff on a MB Air at home and a Mac mini at work.
I seldom use Windows anymore. I have an old gaming PC that ran it, but the Steam Deck is generally more powerful, so it's been resting idle for a while now. There are a few people at work who use Windows, and I occasionally have to do some IT stuff for them on those machines and I hate it!
i love windows 3.1 and 95 does that count?
Use and support windows systems at work. I'm at a small business that uses some ancient software that is only Windows compatible.
At home am fully switched over to Linux.
people are surprisingly opinionated about it.
Getting repeatedly burned by soulless multibillion dollar comanies tends to do that to a person.
I'm in the Apple ecosystem, hardware-wise, and pretty happy about it. Not much to discuss, if other people feel differently, that's fine.
Me too ✌🏻 I like it, the hardware is rock solid and software-wise I try my best not to get too far into the walled garden. It's a good compromise
My only complaint Hardware wise is all the extra lengths that Apple go to to make sure that things are less upgradable etc.
I’m a windows and Mac user.
And Linux too, but mostly for servers only.
Mac for personal, Linux for work. Been that way for over 20 years. They tried to force us to switch to new windows machines (we’re a linux shop) and i said i’d quit first. They tried to sell the WSL crap… i showed them how my 8 yr old machine ran circles around their new windows laptop. I’m still running linux. Every ounce of my being hates windows. Mac just works. Linux (for me) just works. Linux can be a bit fiddly at times. But once it’s working, it just works.
Oh yeah I'm still using Win10 because tbh I'm too lazy to get into linux
I don't want making my computer function, to be a hobby.
I want to get off Windows but every time I have tried to switch to linux, stupid stuff makes it a pain in the ass. This last time, I tried Zorin. I put chrome on it (not my computer) and it just absolutely refused to run. I spent my whole day off just trying to get chrome to not brick the computer. No dice.This is just one instance of at least 4 or 5 times I have legitimately tried to switch, or tried to switch someone else to Linux.
you had a problem with chrome??? I was on zorin and used chrome. how did you install it? oh wait not your computer. did you have admin rights? I don't think you could install chrome on a windows machine where you were given a user account that was not admin.
I grabbed it from the little app approved store front thing or whatever that Zorin had. I tried a couple different methods and it would install fine but every time it launched, it would hard freeze the system. No other app or anything installed had a problem.
get debian, and use librewolf
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I have an 2025 M4 Pro 16” MacBook Pro, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. But I also have a 2012 iMac that’s running Fedora
I like both Macs and Linux. I see them both as having their places. macOS is a form of UNIX/BSD after all, so they interoperate particularly well.
I think there's plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don't notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.
Like how to disable today's forced ai or kernel level anticheats being totes ok
Ey, it's fine to use Windows, no need to insult Linux people though.
You can do some really cool shit with Linux, when it comes to ricing etc. You don't have to like it, but it can be a really cool hobby.
If they're not insulting Linux users, they have to deal with copilot shoving its nose into whatever they're working on.
Like, how many days in a row do I have to dismiss the fucking AI prompt asking me if I want to have my data mangled? I'm not sure the actual answer, I just ignore the fucking banner because I can't be assed anymore. I'm sure there's a setting somewhere, but MicroSlop will move and re-enable it again later so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Had been an Apple customer since the early 80s. Switched to Linux some 7 or 8 years ago.
I don't consider myself opinionated about tools (computer or otherwise). I just know what tool works best for me for the task at hand. For years, it used to be Mac/Apple. it is no longer the case.
That's interesting. I'm in a similar boat but have had more trouble kicking the Mac habit I guess. Something keeps drawing me back.
I guess at the moment, it's a combination of my significant investment in GUI scripting (Automator, AppleScript, etc.) and a love of ARM processors which Apple still seems to do best? But there's also a familiarity/old-habits-die-hard aspect to it I'm sure.
Habits were my biggest source of resistance. The day I decided to deal with those, the rest was (almost) painless.
The trigger was my desire to get back some control over my data (and over my computer) and to get back some privacy... while also being able to easily fix/upgrade my hardware instead of having to purchase a new one when it's fallen out of warranty.
Bash + scripting replaced Automator for my use case. The one thing I still do miss from macOS is... Spotlight. There is a lot of ways to search on Linux but the simplicity, efficiency and speed of Spotlight... it's just <3
I mostly use Linux but on a slight occasion, I'm a Windows user.
Everytime when I see someone has windows problem you can be sure at least a opinated Lemmy user recommend them to uninstall windows and use Linux instead.
This is not always the best solution.
If the machine is from work or school you can't simply install anything you want.
Maybe the user has other programs/hardware that work only on windows and install Linux would cause more problems. I know you could use wine, virtual machines or other tricks but some stuff don't work there.
Sometimes the "just use linux"-advice is posted as a meme. A non tech savy person would not understand this meme and could feel they are not being taken serious.
Even as a Linux evangelist, I had to switch one of my systems back from Linux to windows because I couldn't get a couple specific games to run on it because it was an old HP business box and hit that lovely trap of the system being too old for the current OS, but the graphics card isn't supported on the couple older OSes I tried. So I installed windows 10 and called it good.
Probably could have kept trying and found something that worked, but at a certain point it's just easier to deal with windows than constantly tinker with a secondary box for my kid who just wants it to work.
My work laptop is running Win11
I’ve used Macs for 20 years (fuck I’m old)
I did get a Linux PC last year though and it’s great too!
What is your question? I do use Linux at home, and nothing else. But at work, I have to use Windows or macOS if I want a salary. macOS is better than Windows because it's a unix like lunix.
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