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!
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I use Windows 11, macOS, and Fedora Workstation. I’ve never understood why some people make their OS choice part of their identity.
Is it considered "part of my identity" because I mention Linux every couple months at work? I'm known as a Linux guy at work and I see nothing shameful about it at all. When alternatives suck and everyone knows it, there's nothing wrong with mentioning a better way here and there. If I wedged it into conversations constantly that would be annoying but I don't.
Agree. Except Arch.
I do understand people making Arch part of their identity. If you are an olympic swimmer swimming naturally is part of your identity
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Unfortunately. At least for work-purposes.
iPad. It works, and it’s convenient. If people love or hate certain OSs, that’s fine.
I don't have a computer - I just use my phone for Samsung Dex and my tablet (which I think might actually be Linux-based or something. I'm a tech noob).
Otherwise, Windows for work.
No, I have been using both in the mists of antiquity, but then I saw the light. I also joined in the Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster. Now my life is full.
My main, high spec audio production laptop is running Windows, my work device is a Mac, I have a Chromebook for when I'm working out, and I have an old Dell running Linux mint which has become my main beater laptop. I guess you can say I'm ambidextrous.
Windows and Linux.
There are Windows and Microsoft communities but they aren't very active
I'm basically only on windows these days because I have a windows mixed reality vr headset and I don't know how well that would play with Linux.
Windows / Android here
At home, I've mostly switched stuff out to Linux that I use as "servers", but I've had to go back and use Windows on one or two bc I just can't figure out Jellyfin or Plex on Linux. I've been an IT admin of mostly windows stuff for years and a casual Linux user at home. Network drive don't work well on Linux, idc who you are, it's just more "natural" on Windows.
However, I smh back too Windows 10 build 1909 to omit some telemetry and prompts about setting up backup, Cortana, and anything else that uses to interrupt my applications running bc of constant forced updates and reboots. I've done down and disabled so much, my base Windows idling was ~100 processes running (down from ~150) and 2GB RAM! I trust SMB and UNC for the NAS and media players, that Linux couldn't cleanly do for me.
I want something that is not only easy to set up, but easy to troubleshoot (for me) while also being "secure". Sorry to any hard core Linux CLI fans, but, I don't have the patience to waste time at home learning it. That "NAS" running Windows is also blocked from the outside world so nothing reports back to MS on the off-chance I missed something.
I do, however, take time at work learning tools and systems in my "test" envs at work so I can eventually utilize at home, vs trying to learn things at home that's useful for work (like in my home lab).
No
I'm still a windows user, but that's mostly just because I have a bunch of work programs on my computer that I was supposed to get rid of when they gave me my crappy work laptop, and I'm worried that if I switch over I won't be able to reinstall them and I'll have to work on the crappy laptop for the rest of my career.
both yeah, windows for VR and mac for work
You post doesn’t reference any OSes I don’t use.
Used both, never will again unless forced to.
I remember Windows — it was ok for its time I guess, but I didn't like it as much as AmigaOS.
I still have one machine that runs Windows, its mostly for games, because there's a lot of setup that I don't wanna re do.
But my uni laptop runs mint, and I like my workflow a lot more. Mostly due to the file manager being a lot better, and some foss stuff that doesn't exist for windows. I still need to remote into my windows machine for CAD because that software doesn't support Linux anymore...
And my couch machine runs Linux too, but mostly because its old and slow, and doesn't run anything but Firefox and Spotify...