Hows the cheap people’s activation problem? lol
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.
Why are there no closed source communities on open source reddit?
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…
Or I want the hardware/software I paid for to work
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.
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.
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 😉 🎣
No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.
'Cause Lemmy.
Idk how many people I have met who don’t know what windows is despite using it for years. For them it is Mac and PC (pc meaning windows), anything outside of that is black magic or hacker stuff.
Goddamnit, I installed librewolf on my office pc and changed the theme of slopOS-11 “oh he’s a hacker!”.
loolloddol
Customers don’t make good good communities.
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
Hard to swallow pills: GNU is not Unix and Linux is just a kernel
No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.
BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.
(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)
And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.
Linux could be unix if someone wanted to pay to have it certified. It’s meaningless.
Linux is unix-like.
It’s like the mr worldwide meme
And what’s with all the upvotes?
Probably because of “Linux is winning”. ;-)
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Clearly this is Commodore
They exist, they’re just more corporate and centralized, and inundated with basic tech support questions due to the huge install base.
Like this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/windows
If you dig deep enough in there you’ll find administrators talking about powershell hacks and devops and group policy and stuff like that. There’s probably people who are “passionate” about Windows, I’d imagine, but since it’s closed source there’s only so much you can do without being literally an employee of MS. The people I’ve met like this are kind of smugly defensive about Windows because they’ve invested so much training and knowledge into its arcana, but it’s not exactly “passion”.
I used to know a kid who was a hardcore Windows stan. He wasn’t terribly bright. He had a business idea for a company called “Hackers For Hire” where he would come to your house and show you how to download commercial software for free.
I do sysadmin and hate all Microsoft software from Windows to their cloud offerings.
Windows is the safe (or was) default. If you walk into most companies, that’s what everyone has. If you buy a PC, that’s what’s installed. Using Linux or Mac is a conscious choice. That “us vs. them” feeling tends to foster community.
It’s more than that. Linux needs community for support.
Windows was never the safe option, it was the anticompetative option that took away the safe options!! Windows has always been quite genuinely the least secure, least stable, least maintainable option.
I think it’s “Safe” as in “No one was ever fired for choosing IBM” or more on the nose: If you choose to install Linux on all company computers and the CFO gets mad when Excel doesn’t work, why aren’t we just using windows??!?!? Then it’s your ass on the line. You will have a million enterprise software vendors that supports Windows, fewer that supports Linux.
It’s no longer the safe bet for a lot of companies/countries because of how USA is being run at the moment, but that’s s whole other reason.
“thats whats installed” I remember those times, but now Microsoft is forcing you to bloat your cheaper PC with win11, otherwise it will be out of date.Thats the problem now.
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.
Oh there are people who are very passionate about using Windows, in corporations almost exclusively. Had conversation with a system architect recently that made me go over every single reason why Windows isn’t my first choice and got more and more frustrated because if given the choice, I would always pick OpenStack over Azure.
What Windows has are dwindling enthusiast numbers.
I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.
They were amazing at backwards compatibility for decades, now they put up a TPM sized wall of planned obsolescence and instead we got a Linux flavour for anything.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone doing the reverse of your experience.
I guess I’m not techie enough to meet these people as I’m just talking to windows end users.
