I use arch btw.
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I use Kubuntu btw.
I also use Arch, btw.
I use doors btw
TempleOS
Could you not make me feel miserable out of nowhere? I am a mostly decent person?
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Linux for gaming Linux for servers Linux for desktops/notebooks Linux at work Linux for mobile
I use all 3, ordered by how often I use them: Linux > MacOS (hackintosh) > Windows
Both. I'd prefer Linux because it respects me as a user, but unfortunately too much stuff constantly breaks to fully convert. The moment I can play Assetto Corsa with all my mods using my wheel in VR I'll consider fully switching. Many other games already work though, so I'm slowly converting to using Linux as my default and Windows as the exception instead of the other way around.
(I use Arch btw)
There are distros that don't break
GNU/Linux only, with KDE Plasma for desktop as possible. Using it on work laptop (Kubuntu), home laptop (openSUSE Tumbleweed), PC (openSUSE Tumbleweed, also used for gaming), Steam Deck (Arch-based SteamOS). I don't use spyware/adware so Windows is out of question for me. Also it is not free as in freedom and opensource.
Nice to see another openSUSE Tumbleweed user!
Linux, it fits my needs better on desktop, and is much less painful to troubleshoot than Windows, with more freedom and control than macOS.
Linux, but I keep windows on the other drive just in case I need a windows only app. Rarely happens except for VR.
Windows and Linux dual boot on my PC. Linux on Steam Deck (obviously, since it's the default)
Fedora KDE on home computer
Manjaro KDE on wife's computer
Endeavor Sway on small laptop
MX Linux XFCE on GPD Pocket
Fedora GNOME on work non-sanctioned laptop
Ubuntu WSL on work sanctioned laptop
Manjaro
I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux
for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.
Yβknow how itβs not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tipsβ¦ this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.
the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, thereβs no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.
But if what youβre looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros
If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite
If youβre a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos
If you donβt care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.
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I'd use linux in a heartbeat if it was supported by the tools I use for work.
Windows. Can't be arsed to deal with Linux.
I use both. Windows for the domain, backup, Video-surveillance, emby and some other critical things, and linux for proxmox and a lot of diverse vms. Mainly ubuntu lts.
It's not a religous thing, it's a pragmatic one. Best tool for the job
Linux (windows at work tho).
I can't get SteamVR to work in Linux unfortunately, it's the primary thing preventing me from deleting my Windows partition
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Switched to Mint for desktop. Been mostly fine. Getting it installed was surprisingly harrowing. Annoyed that most mod tools for games are targeting windows. I guess I have to figure out wine and its whole prefix system.
My primary machine is still Windows, but pretty much all of my other machines run some version of Linux. The only reason my primary is winows is because I do a lot of 3d modeling and gaming. (Yes I own a steamdeck and it works really nice, but some of my fav's still refuse to just click the "let anticheat work on Linux" button.)
Mainly linux but i have windows for when i need to scan something or run programs that won't start trough wine. Mainly the driver for my hp printer since scanning doesnt work with hplip
Windows, namely because Paint Tool SAI only runs on Windows...
As much as I'd like to use Linux, I use windows because I need OneNote, Teams and Office.
I am in school, and make heavy use of Teams and Office, and do just fine in Linux! 365 on the web, Libre Office, and Teams in a Flatpak. My instructors can't wrap their heads around it. I'm the only one in my program! (IT, no less.)
I should've added - I'm a teacher and make regular use of inking, classroom integration in OneNote, teams assignments to word for pen comments, excel macro workbooks, SharePoint syncing etc..
Unfortunately web wrappers for office lose to many features.
Plus (on my last look) the cameras on my surface pro would never work, so that's another bust.
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For anything non-gaming I use Linux.
For anything gaming I still use Linux.
You had me in the first half. Not gonna lie.
Been 100% Linux for over 3 years. All my servers, my fancy gaming PC, my personal laptop, my side business laptop, my work laptop, my Steam Deck, all Linux.
No dual boot, I have a single Windows VM on my work laptop to test Windows apps because my workplace is a Windows shop.
I don't miss Windows even a little bit. I am so much more free and enjoy computing way more now.
Linux
Windows. /s
The diagram of Linux fans and Lemmy users is pretty much a single circle.
βHow do I get my Mac to do this thing?β
βUse Archβ
i get to use linux at home, im forced to use and support windows at work
Yes
On laptop Arch Linux with KDE because all is automatic, on gaming PC Arch Linux with i3wm because games and all runs so fast and so well.
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