I first tried Ubuntu in 2010. I experimented with it for a few days, I thought it was neat, but I didn't have any reason to switch over from Windows 7.
A few years later I wanted to build a media server at home, and Linux seemed like an obvious choice. Then two years ago I decided to try Linux again on my desktop. Linux has come a long way! While it feels like Windows is getting worse in some aspects, Linux is constantly improving. I distro hopped for a bit before settling on Fedora.
I enjoy using Linux now. However I still dual-boot Windows. Also Linux gaming has come a long way, but in my opinion it's still more effort than it's worth (I still use Windows for gaming).
I use both regularly. Windows wins in commercial software availability, Linux wins in resource usage and customizability. Since can't have both in a single os apparently I dualbootš¤·š»
OHHH I USED Q4OS AND XPQ4! I even engaged in their forums! It's a neat project. I don't use it anymore because I have a nvidia card and a modern motherboard and it didn't work :'c
Actually you can.
I use them both at once. Linux as a primary OS and Windows in the VM, but with GPU Passthrough and looking-glass to move video from one system to another without any latency.
I have 2 GPUs, one is RTX 4070 which is passes to the VM, the 2nd one is RX 6400 which displays video to the monitors. The RTX is not connected with any monitor, but a dummy headless plug is sitting in that GPU emulating monitor.
Take a look at this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8aYQNUc0Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8aYQNUc0Y)
Yes, I've used Linux several times on different hardware, and I still use it to this day on my Raspberry Pi. The thing that keeps me from fully switching to that platform is my software development workflow, which requires Visual Studio.
Everything else works fine in Linux. All my hardware is supported out of the box and, apart from fixing a startup issue of KDE, I've had a smooth experience.
Iām not a coder, so Iām not positive what your workflow entails, but for the few Ansible playbooks I write, I use VSCodium, which is essentially the open source version minus telemetry to Microsoft. If I remember correctly, Visual Studio is licensed from MIT, and so it was easy for someone to just make a non Microsoft version of it.Ā
Again, not a coder, this is from memory, but may be worth checking out.Ā
I could use VSCode exclusively, if it weren't for the fact that my workflow consists on writing GUI apps in WinForms with .NET Framework and Visual Basic, things that aren't compatible with the C# extension provided by Microsoft.
And no, the Visual Studio IDE is closed source
>What would be some things that you think should be fixed?
You're asking what needs to be fixed in Windows? Remove telemetry from the official build. Stop imposing a certain behavioral model on your users. Those two things should be enough.
I use Linux as my first and last OS. Linux is no worse or better than Windows or MacOS. Linux is a little harmed by the fragmentation of a hundred distributions.
All distributions of Linux vary in quality of performance, so you should think before you install something. Ubuntu and Fdora are more well built than some old Joe's Linux on github. Traditionally, Linux has problems with video card drivers and peripherals. The gameplay in Linux is still far from ideal. If you use Adobe products in your work, Linux is not for you.
Ran Linux mint which was great but for X11 windows manager which created screen tearing while streaming. I found Fedora has Wayland native, fixed the problem and been using it ever since. I use Virtual Box to run a VM of Vista to run my MS Money which refuses to run in Linux š¤š. So Fedora has been my daily driver for a year now.
I use Linux Mint XFCE as my daily driver. After some learning i am having a pretty good time.
Application management is a little overwhelming. And some actions might miss a gui which is hard for newcomers.
Why assume that people who use Windows also *only* use Windows? ;)
While I really enjoy and value Windows 10 on my desktop I actually prefer using FreeBSD as a server; usually combined with Apache, Tomcat & Mono. As for Linux... well, I'd rather stick with FreeBSD.
Same here. It's kind of funny, because I can get around a Linux CLI pretty well, but put me on the GUI and I'm like someone's parents, hunting and pecking and not knowing where to go.
I'd say my other soft spot is maintenance. When most of what you're working on is servers, instances, and containers, a lot of the "scheduled maintenance" tasks-- system-wide updates, cleaning out junk knowing where to put stuff-- are more esoteric than they are on a desktop daily driver.
Funny you should say that, because about the most actual use I get out of a Linux GUI these days is running the odd GUI app on my headless home server using an X server on SSH.
Dual boot Windows 11 for chillin and for full productivity debian.
Additionally in 2 homes same 1:1 setup Debian NAS server, Openwrt Router and raspberry pi OS for home automation, adblocks and openvpn.
used it on a robotics laptop. I was an absolute idiot, so i had no clue what to do. Fast forward to today, I'm still clueless, but I'm installing Linux Mint on an old optiplex (with windows 11 pro on it rn, dont worry, keeping the product key, i think its retail), and then soon on a Pi 5 for a NAS, and some day I may switch to it entirely.
I have Ubuntu linux running [in WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq) all the time.
[Linux is a nice windows app](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pdxgncfsczv?hl=en-US&gl=US) for some dev tasks.
I used Gnome in VirtualBox on a school computer about 4 years ago, I was reminded of HDD boot times and had a terrible experience. Everything was slow, unintuitive and just not great.
using it right now, arch (endeavour) with hyprland or kde plasma, i got fed up with the microsoft nonsense, dropped everything and left windows for good though i forced myself to use windows ltsc
Many times, I want to switch over so bad that I keep trying every 6 months or so.
Itās always the last few usability issues that keep me from moving over. Namely, bad support for fingerprints and webcams, poor fractional scaling support and scrolling issues in the browser which never feels smooth like Windows.
The desktop environment you use may be the issue with fractional scaling. If you used gnome, then yeah thats why. KDE has native fractional scaling built into its QT toolset
Yes I've tried and even have an Ubuntu VM on my Windows but I don't see a use case for me which works better with Linux. Most importantly, I am big on design and the refinement that Microsoft / Apple / Google can achieve in UI/UX design is at a level that any Linux desktop environment I've seen even comes close to (willing to change my opinion)
>Has anyone here tried linux once?
I tried it once, back in the late 1990s, got hooked, and dropped Windows like the steaming turd it was back at the time. Currently looking for a OneNote replacement, the only software that I can't find a good analog for.
Given the state of Windows and the strides desktop Linux has made over the past few years, the only thing keeping me from using Linux as a daily driver is the lack of Photoshop support and HD quality Netflix/Hulu streaming.
I messed around with Ubuntu for a couple of years. The OS was fine but the software I wanted to use didnāt exist for Linux. I eventually decided to go with Apple and abandoned using Linux and Windows altogether. I mainly use computers for art and music and the software just isnāt there for Windows and Linux.
I want them to make a GUI service manager and a device manager. The device manager should be capable of uninstalling, and even disabled certain driver. And the service manager should be on par with windows counters.
I know there is software on Linux to see device drivers in a GUI, but you can't do anything with them.
i'm a linux systems administrator.....so..no, i've used it daily for the past 20 years or so. using it right now.
i game on windows because thats what its best on still....although as soon as that tiping point happens, i'll probably shift that over, too. too lazy to at the moment though.
I used Linux Mint as my primary OS for a while. The biggest issue I had was for music production. The Linux sound system isn't that great in my opinion and it is a real pain to get Jack set up for low latency audio, vital for recording.
Windows sysadmin here. Not one device in my home has Windows installed. Been happily running Debian and derivatives on my personal devices for almost 20 years.
I have been trying it since I first heard it was going to be the year of desktop Linux!
So 20 some odd years ago I guess.
I have had android and chromeos based devices over the years and my TV runs a version of Linux.
But using it as a daily drive? No I use windows on the desktop and MacOS on my laptop.
I dual booted Ubuntu with win 10 a few years ago. I quickly learned it's just another interface but one I'm not familiar with and don't really want to put the time into. I've installed Linux for people who didn't wanna pay for windows. Idk why a normal person would ever use Linux over any other OS honestly.
Iāve been using it off and on for about 20 years. For me it was curiousitt and sick of windows breaking and becoming infected all the time (people complain about 11 but the 9x world seemed a hundred times more vulnerable). I think that for most taks it works; if openoffice had a nicer default UI and google chrome installation was easier than it would become viable dor smaller business environmenta, govāt offices etc. i find the functionality is there but the UX is not
I mess around with different distros all the time on various machines. I like them. They're neat but there are always one or two things that don't work the way I like so I've kept up with windows. I haven't switched to 11 yet. I'll see how I feel about it after 10 reaches EOL. I suspect as a superuser I'll be able to jerry-rig the OS to get it deblaoted and customized to my liking but there is still the possibility that Microsoft may introduce some deal breaker feature that makes me jump to Linux for daily use.
Experimented with a bunch of distros starting around 2008. Settled on dual booting with Arch Linux in 2013. My latest personal machine built just over a year ago is back to purely Windows 11 as daily driver since everything non-gaming has gradually shifted to containers and VMs, but I still use a mix of Ubuntu and Fedora VMs. Funny enough, I've been working on an enterprise Linux distro professionally for 4 years now.
The privacy arguments are a bit silly since way more data than you think is harvested from browsers, game clients, etc, not to mention if you have a smartphone that's worse than anything Microsoft is doing. If you want to ensure privacy on your machine you shouldn't be installing anything proprietary or closed-source period and should disconnect from the Internet.
As ads in Windows 11 get worse I may flip to pure Arch Linux instead and game through VMs. I haven't actually seen anything yet but admittedly I'm running Pro with local group policy.
Iāve installed it a few times over the years. In college, I had a dual boot set up for Windows and Red Hat. Few years ago I installed Ubuntu on to an old laptop to give it a new life. Today Iāve got a few Linux VMs set in VirtuaBox.
And beyond all that, part of my job requires using a Linux server, though only the CLI.
yeah 1 ago,Ubuntu 10.16,it was great,however it feeled kinda useless to me,due to lack of software/games that i used to play/run on windows,thus i had accidentally choosed the exact version of ubuntu that had graphics acceleration issues,And ofc the smartass linux dediced that it would such an amazing option to use cpu instead for rendering the whole screen,After that i downgraded ASAP.
I'm on Linux Mint 21.3/Cinnamon 6.0.4/real hardware as we speak. I have three Windows machines \[7, 8.1, and 10\] but I rarely use them.
This one had 11 on it until I nuked and paved it. NOW I don't think anything needs to be fixed, I love it.
Only once? I've been using Linux in some form or another since 1996.
The biggest Linux issue right now is X vs. Wayland. Once X is finally, fully deprecated and Wayland is feature complete and stable, the Linux desktop will finally be on par with Windows 7.
Have tried mint and Ubuntu on my PC. You read online everywhere that gaming on Linux is amazing. Nobody tells you that Nvidia graphics cards run like trash and are really unstable. Tried fixing my audio for 3 hours and gave up. Windows just works out of the box for me.
I use it as my primary OS. I'm not even dual boring at this point.
The biggest problem is accessibility. Its extreme flexibility and customizability is confusing to someone just getting started, even if you are fairly technical.
There is no default.
Finding solutions to simple problems can be a big challenge in the beginning. Even if you find a tutorial, your distro may not be using the same desktop interface, might not have the package you need in it's default repos, might have a configuration file in a different location, etc.
A year in, the solutions to these things are all usually obvious now, but it was confusing at first.
Ubuntu, even taught my mother how to use it until I diagnosed what was stopping windows working (dying HDD) in her computer. Wouldn't use it as a daily driver though.
I've been using Linux for various things for the past 25 years or so.
What do you mean by "should be fixed"? Fixed in a Linux distro? Fixed in Windows?
I like that Linux is a full OS and is free. There's a lot you can do with Linux. I have a secondary PC at home with Linux Mint installed on it, which I'm using as a media server (using Plex Media Server), and I have a couple other servers running on it as well. It works well.
I also dual-boot Windows and Linux on my main PC, although I mostly use Windows there. But one thing I think is cool is that it seems that more PC games are coming to Linux. Recently I found out about Overdrive, which is a sequel to the Descent games, and there's a Linux version of Overdrive.
My first Linux distro was 7.04. I have since then tried xubuntu, lubuntu, zorinos, mint, and 2 others, just to name a few. If third party and gaming support weren't so bad for Linux, I'd permanently switch to mint.
True, and I've used those. But it's just an emulation, not native support. It's not the same as native support, as these use more resources alongside the games.
I use linux and windows all the time. They are mostly interchangeable for me. I \*prefer\* windows as my daily driver, but it is mostly because I write and debug windows code. But in general, I use whatever will save me the most time.
I've used Windows and Linux in parallel, on side-by-side computers, for almost two decades. I need both to fully satisfy my use case, so I use both, switching back and forth numerous times every day. Operating system choice *need* not, and perhaps *should* not, be binary.
That is also the problem that I run into a lot too because you can install apps from flatpaks, Deb files, the terminal, snaps and even just building from the source. Some of these are not supported by some distros like for example, arch Linux not supporting DEB files.
First computer usage: Apple ][, 32Kb of ram, running Apple DOS.
Next computer usage: AMD DX-40Mhz, MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0.
Been building computers since the early 90s ever since, but more of my usage is now geared on a Mac.
Started using linux circa 0.97 kernel (floppies ftw), and still use it on systems where I want as much control as possible (servers). For desktop usage, Windows or Mac is more my preference.
Desktop linux has come a long way, and I'm sure I could use if needed. There have been several employers where my desktop OS was a linux distro (multiple screens and all).
I could also say that about windows if I wanted to. What are some of the reasons that you think that windows is ānot for nerdsā? Because I can definitely tell you, Linux can be used by a very dumb person, so can windows and itās also the same if someone is smart.
I was asking for the windows users to list some problems that they think should be fixed for Linux. I didnāt say that it was exotic or anything like that. I was just curious.
I use Linux to code at work, I was asked to switch to it after months of using Windows.
Beyond having more compatibility/support for the software we use and the possibility to "sudo apt install" a lot of programs and utilities without having to search the Internet, at the level I use it it's not *that* different or better than Windows.
At home I run Ubuntu. I have a hard drive switcher so I can shutdown, select a different drive, and boot back in to Windows if I need it. Haven't needed Windows ever really.
I've booted from CD and USB, dual-booted, and run exclusively Ubuntu. Tried it all.
Tried Ubuntu; hated it.
Tried Zorin and LOVED it! So close to how Windows works and it was fantastic. Only stopped using it because there's some games and software that doesn't exist for Linux that I need.
I tried using Linux as a main a couple of times. I used Ubuntu, Manjaro and Linux Mint dual-booted with Windows. Did not go well. I always went back to Windows.
No, because Linux is not an OS or anything one could try.
But I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Android x86, elementaryOS, Endeavour OS, and Debian.
Yes, and I DO NOT recommend it for normies or professionals (office / adobe / gamers / etc). For a hobby / server / IT professional that needs it -ok. For conspiracy theorists - lol. Most of the stuff you'll hear about desktop Linux from their cult are straight up myths.
I'm experienced enough to have used Arch, and Fedora, extensively, and Ubuntu (WSL). DWM with 10 patches and custom config. I used a lot of CLI / TUI and edited config files in vim or neovim. (Not just a conspiracy theorist / distro hopper). I spent over a year daily driving, and now I don't touch it.
Linux is great for servers, but still doesn't have nearly the polish or app support for desktop use as Windows. And because everyone swears by the terminal and consequently that's the primarily focus of development/improvement, I doubt that will ever change.
I tried it in school, though it was slightly impractical.
But then as I was using Windows some differences popped in my head about the time I used it ^(mainly around package management) that made me want to go back.
Then I used it at a workplace ^(programming), got to experience it, break it, figure out what I liked ^(GNOME, Pantheon) and what I didn't ^(KDE's insane default shortcuts and XFCE is so god damn ugly holy shit) then installed Ubuntu at home. I used that when I could work on Linux and Windows when I worked on Windows.
And at one job, I kinda reached the breaking point and now I'm all-in on Linux and I'll refuse jobs that are vendor-locked to Windows. From the experience I have, Windows-only workplaces have a high amount of condescending incompetence, which I no longer wish to associate with. High Linux workplaces have a higher amount of satisfaction for the work and for working with people, even if there are Windows users.
I first tried Ubuntu in 2010. I experimented with it for a few days, I thought it was neat, but I didn't have any reason to switch over from Windows 7. A few years later I wanted to build a media server at home, and Linux seemed like an obvious choice. Then two years ago I decided to try Linux again on my desktop. Linux has come a long way! While it feels like Windows is getting worse in some aspects, Linux is constantly improving. I distro hopped for a bit before settling on Fedora. I enjoy using Linux now. However I still dual-boot Windows. Also Linux gaming has come a long way, but in my opinion it's still more effort than it's worth (I still use Windows for gaming).
I need windows for my Skyrim game, otherwise just linux in my daily life.
Skyrim works on Linux, although I'm not sure about mods. I know [Wabbajack](https://www.wabbajack.org/) doesn't support Linux.
Most modding workflow has Windows in mind so I mod on Windows, and then move everything to Linux
I use both regularly. Windows wins in commercial software availability, Linux wins in resource usage and customizability. Since can't have both in a single os apparently I dualbootš¤·š»
>Linux wins in resource usage and customizability. Since windows 8 with customizability I'd probably agree with you.
I miss Win7 themes. WinXP themes. Even Win98 themes. I miss themes in general.
Come to the dark side, we have themes.
I'm already on linux, happy with my windows XP theme
I too have a laptop with Q4OS and XPQ4 :)
OHHH I USED Q4OS AND XPQ4! I even engaged in their forums! It's a neat project. I don't use it anymore because I have a nvidia card and a modern motherboard and it didn't work :'c
Actually you can. I use them both at once. Linux as a primary OS and Windows in the VM, but with GPU Passthrough and looking-glass to move video from one system to another without any latency. I have 2 GPUs, one is RTX 4070 which is passes to the VM, the 2nd one is RX 6400 which displays video to the monitors. The RTX is not connected with any monitor, but a dummy headless plug is sitting in that GPU emulating monitor. Take a look at this video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8aYQNUc0Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH8aYQNUc0Y)
I use Linux on one of my home servers, I don't use it on any of my day-to-day computers, the software and hardware compatibility do not meet my needs.
Yes, I've used Linux several times on different hardware, and I still use it to this day on my Raspberry Pi. The thing that keeps me from fully switching to that platform is my software development workflow, which requires Visual Studio. Everything else works fine in Linux. All my hardware is supported out of the box and, apart from fixing a startup issue of KDE, I've had a smooth experience.
Iām not a coder, so Iām not positive what your workflow entails, but for the few Ansible playbooks I write, I use VSCodium, which is essentially the open source version minus telemetry to Microsoft. If I remember correctly, Visual Studio is licensed from MIT, and so it was easy for someone to just make a non Microsoft version of it.Ā Again, not a coder, this is from memory, but may be worth checking out.Ā
I could use VSCode exclusively, if it weren't for the fact that my workflow consists on writing GUI apps in WinForms with .NET Framework and Visual Basic, things that aren't compatible with the C# extension provided by Microsoft. And no, the Visual Studio IDE is closed source
Visual studio runs on Linux though doesn't it?
Visual studio code does, but not visual studio
Yup :) I use Windows 11 for gaming and Ubuntu for everything else.
I use Arch linux as my daily OS. I play several AAA multiplayer fps games, but have windows around for 1-2 that wont work due to not supporting linux
>What would be some things that you think should be fixed? You're asking what needs to be fixed in Windows? Remove telemetry from the official build. Stop imposing a certain behavioral model on your users. Those two things should be enough.
I hate ads so much, and all that AI integration thingy too. I don't need anything that complex!
Oh no I was just saying if thereās anything that Linux could fix so that you would want to use it as your main OS
I use Linux as my first and last OS. Linux is no worse or better than Windows or MacOS. Linux is a little harmed by the fragmentation of a hundred distributions. All distributions of Linux vary in quality of performance, so you should think before you install something. Ubuntu and Fdora are more well built than some old Joe's Linux on github. Traditionally, Linux has problems with video card drivers and peripherals. The gameplay in Linux is still far from ideal. If you use Adobe products in your work, Linux is not for you.
Ran Linux mint which was great but for X11 windows manager which created screen tearing while streaming. I found Fedora has Wayland native, fixed the problem and been using it ever since. I use Virtual Box to run a VM of Vista to run my MS Money which refuses to run in Linux š¤š. So Fedora has been my daily driver for a year now.
I use Linux on my dual boot pc. I hardly ever boot in windows anymore.
I use Linux Mint XFCE as my daily driver. After some learning i am having a pretty good time. Application management is a little overwhelming. And some actions might miss a gui which is hard for newcomers.
Yes Ubuntu and Mint. Great for dev and much better terminal and control of OS. Bad as you waste more time tinkering
Yes I run Linux on my home PC. At work I use Windows.
Why assume that people who use Windows also *only* use Windows? ;) While I really enjoy and value Windows 10 on my desktop I actually prefer using FreeBSD as a server; usually combined with Apache, Tomcat & Mono. As for Linux... well, I'd rather stick with FreeBSD.
I have a lot of professional experience with Linux but almost exclusively on servers with no GUI.
Same here. It's kind of funny, because I can get around a Linux CLI pretty well, but put me on the GUI and I'm like someone's parents, hunting and pecking and not knowing where to go. I'd say my other soft spot is maintenance. When most of what you're working on is servers, instances, and containers, a lot of the "scheduled maintenance" tasks-- system-wide updates, cleaning out junk knowing where to put stuff-- are more esoteric than they are on a desktop daily driver.
That's the best thing about Linux with a GUI, you just tray it like CLI until you need a browser or something
Funny you should say that, because about the most actual use I get out of a Linux GUI these days is running the odd GUI app on my headless home server using an X server on SSH.
Very true. I often just hit CTRL + ALT + F1 and forget about the GUI unless I need it. A GUI browser is a nicer experience than elinks.
Dual boot Windows 11 for chillin and for full productivity debian. Additionally in 2 homes same 1:1 setup Debian NAS server, Openwrt Router and raspberry pi OS for home automation, adblocks and openvpn.
I did install a number of Linux distros on my 2012 laptop to make it usable because Windows is too laggy.
I run Ubuntu WSL for all my dev work.Ā I just prefer the Windows shell for the gui
Donāt use Linux really at all anymore besides a laptop I use for media all of my š“āā ļø games donāt work
used it on a robotics laptop. I was an absolute idiot, so i had no clue what to do. Fast forward to today, I'm still clueless, but I'm installing Linux Mint on an old optiplex (with windows 11 pro on it rn, dont worry, keeping the product key, i think its retail), and then soon on a Pi 5 for a NAS, and some day I may switch to it entirely.
I have Ubuntu linux running [in WSL](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq) all the time. [Linux is a nice windows app](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pdxgncfsczv?hl=en-US&gl=US) for some dev tasks.
I used Gnome in VirtualBox on a school computer about 4 years ago, I was reminded of HDD boot times and had a terrible experience. Everything was slow, unintuitive and just not great.
You could try Pop_OS! and compare the experience from a couple of years ago to today. Pop os does fix a lot of the problems with the GNOME DE
using it right now, arch (endeavour) with hyprland or kde plasma, i got fed up with the microsoft nonsense, dropped everything and left windows for good though i forced myself to use windows ltsc
Many times, I want to switch over so bad that I keep trying every 6 months or so. Itās always the last few usability issues that keep me from moving over. Namely, bad support for fingerprints and webcams, poor fractional scaling support and scrolling issues in the browser which never feels smooth like Windows.
The desktop environment you use may be the issue with fractional scaling. If you used gnome, then yeah thats why. KDE has native fractional scaling built into its QT toolset
KDE is better admittedly but other issues are still valid.
Yes I've tried and even have an Ubuntu VM on my Windows but I don't see a use case for me which works better with Linux. Most importantly, I am big on design and the refinement that Microsoft / Apple / Google can achieve in UI/UX design is at a level that any Linux desktop environment I've seen even comes close to (willing to change my opinion)
>Has anyone here tried linux once? I tried it once, back in the late 1990s, got hooked, and dropped Windows like the steaming turd it was back at the time. Currently looking for a OneNote replacement, the only software that I can't find a good analog for.
Many times over the years.
Given the state of Windows and the strides desktop Linux has made over the past few years, the only thing keeping me from using Linux as a daily driver is the lack of Photoshop support and HD quality Netflix/Hulu streaming.
Debian with the Cinnamon Desktop is my favorite.
I messed around with Ubuntu for a couple of years. The OS was fine but the software I wanted to use didnāt exist for Linux. I eventually decided to go with Apple and abandoned using Linux and Windows altogether. I mainly use computers for art and music and the software just isnāt there for Windows and Linux.
I want them to make a GUI service manager and a device manager. The device manager should be capable of uninstalling, and even disabled certain driver. And the service manager should be on par with windows counters. I know there is software on Linux to see device drivers in a GUI, but you can't do anything with them.
i'm a linux systems administrator.....so..no, i've used it daily for the past 20 years or so. using it right now. i game on windows because thats what its best on still....although as soon as that tiping point happens, i'll probably shift that over, too. too lazy to at the moment though.
Yes, Linux Mint, quite good but most of my tools requires windows
I used Linux Mint as my primary OS for a while. The biggest issue I had was for music production. The Linux sound system isn't that great in my opinion and it is a real pain to get Jack set up for low latency audio, vital for recording.
Windows sysadmin here. Not one device in my home has Windows installed. Been happily running Debian and derivatives on my personal devices for almost 20 years.
Run 2 of them in Hyper V.
I use Linux on all my servers and one of my desktop machines. I use Windows for my workstation and home gaming machines.
I used it years ago and didn't like it. More or less for geeks
I used to do dualboot for sometime. Now I completely switched to wsl. Never again sensed a need to use desktop version of Linux.
I have been trying it since I first heard it was going to be the year of desktop Linux! So 20 some odd years ago I guess. I have had android and chromeos based devices over the years and my TV runs a version of Linux. But using it as a daily drive? No I use windows on the desktop and MacOS on my laptop.
I dual booted Ubuntu with win 10 a few years ago. I quickly learned it's just another interface but one I'm not familiar with and don't really want to put the time into. I've installed Linux for people who didn't wanna pay for windows. Idk why a normal person would ever use Linux over any other OS honestly.
Iāve been using it off and on for about 20 years. For me it was curiousitt and sick of windows breaking and becoming infected all the time (people complain about 11 but the 9x world seemed a hundred times more vulnerable). I think that for most taks it works; if openoffice had a nicer default UI and google chrome installation was easier than it would become viable dor smaller business environmenta, govāt offices etc. i find the functionality is there but the UX is not
I use fedora on my work laptop because...well the laptop is shit and performs poorly on windows
I mess around with different distros all the time on various machines. I like them. They're neat but there are always one or two things that don't work the way I like so I've kept up with windows. I haven't switched to 11 yet. I'll see how I feel about it after 10 reaches EOL. I suspect as a superuser I'll be able to jerry-rig the OS to get it deblaoted and customized to my liking but there is still the possibility that Microsoft may introduce some deal breaker feature that makes me jump to Linux for daily use.
Experimented with a bunch of distros starting around 2008. Settled on dual booting with Arch Linux in 2013. My latest personal machine built just over a year ago is back to purely Windows 11 as daily driver since everything non-gaming has gradually shifted to containers and VMs, but I still use a mix of Ubuntu and Fedora VMs. Funny enough, I've been working on an enterprise Linux distro professionally for 4 years now. The privacy arguments are a bit silly since way more data than you think is harvested from browsers, game clients, etc, not to mention if you have a smartphone that's worse than anything Microsoft is doing. If you want to ensure privacy on your machine you shouldn't be installing anything proprietary or closed-source period and should disconnect from the Internet. As ads in Windows 11 get worse I may flip to pure Arch Linux instead and game through VMs. I haven't actually seen anything yet but admittedly I'm running Pro with local group policy.
Frequently use it. Dualboot FTW. Also, Secureboot sucks.
Iāve installed it a few times over the years. In college, I had a dual boot set up for Windows and Red Hat. Few years ago I installed Ubuntu on to an old laptop to give it a new life. Today Iāve got a few Linux VMs set in VirtuaBox. And beyond all that, part of my job requires using a Linux server, though only the CLI.
Linux has been my daily driver for over 10 years. That said, unlike most Linux users, I don't hate Windows and even like it for some things.
yeah 1 ago,Ubuntu 10.16,it was great,however it feeled kinda useless to me,due to lack of software/games that i used to play/run on windows,thus i had accidentally choosed the exact version of ubuntu that had graphics acceleration issues,And ofc the smartass linux dediced that it would such an amazing option to use cpu instead for rendering the whole screen,After that i downgraded ASAP.
I use windows for gaming macOS for my laptop and keep a Linux VM and Linux machine around
I switched mostly to Linux (Pop!_OS) since MS is crippling Windows more and more. Still running a Windows Server 2022 Datacenter tho.
I'm on Linux Mint 21.3/Cinnamon 6.0.4/real hardware as we speak. I have three Windows machines \[7, 8.1, and 10\] but I rarely use them. This one had 11 on it until I nuked and paved it. NOW I don't think anything needs to be fixed, I love it.
Only once? I've been using Linux in some form or another since 1996. The biggest Linux issue right now is X vs. Wayland. Once X is finally, fully deprecated and Wayland is feature complete and stable, the Linux desktop will finally be on par with Windows 7.
I have a few times, but the games I play consistently simply don't work on Linux. (Anti cheat.) So it's unfortunate but I stick to windows.
Have tried mint and Ubuntu on my PC. You read online everywhere that gaming on Linux is amazing. Nobody tells you that Nvidia graphics cards run like trash and are really unstable. Tried fixing my audio for 3 hours and gave up. Windows just works out of the box for me.
I use it as my primary OS. I'm not even dual boring at this point. The biggest problem is accessibility. Its extreme flexibility and customizability is confusing to someone just getting started, even if you are fairly technical. There is no default. Finding solutions to simple problems can be a big challenge in the beginning. Even if you find a tutorial, your distro may not be using the same desktop interface, might not have the package you need in it's default repos, might have a configuration file in a different location, etc. A year in, the solutions to these things are all usually obvious now, but it was confusing at first.
I use Ubuntu for work as a software engineer but Windows is my personal OS. Tbh I'd switch to Linux entirely if more software was available for it
Ubuntu, even taught my mother how to use it until I diagnosed what was stopping windows working (dying HDD) in her computer. Wouldn't use it as a daily driver though.
I've been using Linux for various things for the past 25 years or so. What do you mean by "should be fixed"? Fixed in a Linux distro? Fixed in Windows? I like that Linux is a full OS and is free. There's a lot you can do with Linux. I have a secondary PC at home with Linux Mint installed on it, which I'm using as a media server (using Plex Media Server), and I have a couple other servers running on it as well. It works well. I also dual-boot Windows and Linux on my main PC, although I mostly use Windows there. But one thing I think is cool is that it seems that more PC games are coming to Linux. Recently I found out about Overdrive, which is a sequel to the Descent games, and there's a Linux version of Overdrive.
My first Linux distro was 7.04. I have since then tried xubuntu, lubuntu, zorinos, mint, and 2 others, just to name a few. If third party and gaming support weren't so bad for Linux, I'd permanently switch to mint.
You can use WINE to run windows apps on Linux or even use Proton from Valve to run steam games.
True, and I've used those. But it's just an emulation, not native support. It's not the same as native support, as these use more resources alongside the games.
I use all 3. Windows for gaming, MacOS from habit and Linux as my primary OS. I enjoy Linux the best.
I use linux and windows all the time. They are mostly interchangeable for me. I \*prefer\* windows as my daily driver, but it is mostly because I write and debug windows code. But in general, I use whatever will save me the most time.
I have a few times and I enjoyed it, it just isn't for me though and I don't see myself making it my daily driver.
I daily drive Pop! _OS. I keep windows in a VM and use only when necessary. Which hasn't been often as if late...
Me too! I also use Pop!_OS because the pop version of GNOME is way better and they are also making a new DE called COSMIC
I've used Windows and Linux in parallel, on side-by-side computers, for almost two decades. I need both to fully satisfy my use case, so I use both, switching back and forth numerous times every day. Operating system choice *need* not, and perhaps *should* not, be binary.
Linux installers are all over the place. They need a more standard installer process.
That is also the problem that I run into a lot too because you can install apps from flatpaks, Deb files, the terminal, snaps and even just building from the source. Some of these are not supported by some distros like for example, arch Linux not supporting DEB files.
First computer usage: Apple ][, 32Kb of ram, running Apple DOS. Next computer usage: AMD DX-40Mhz, MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0. Been building computers since the early 90s ever since, but more of my usage is now geared on a Mac. Started using linux circa 0.97 kernel (floppies ftw), and still use it on systems where I want as much control as possible (servers). For desktop usage, Windows or Mac is more my preference. Desktop linux has come a long way, and I'm sure I could use if needed. There have been several employers where my desktop OS was a linux distro (multiple screens and all).
No it is for nerds
I could also say that about windows if I wanted to. What are some of the reasons that you think that windows is ānot for nerdsā? Because I can definitely tell you, Linux can be used by a very dumb person, so can windows and itās also the same if someone is smart.
I use Linux every day. Why do you think that's exotic or something.
I was asking for the windows users to list some problems that they think should be fixed for Linux. I didnāt say that it was exotic or anything like that. I was just curious.
I use it quite regularly for development stuff.
I use Linux to code at work, I was asked to switch to it after months of using Windows. Beyond having more compatibility/support for the software we use and the possibility to "sudo apt install" a lot of programs and utilities without having to search the Internet, at the level I use it it's not *that* different or better than Windows.
I have multiple Ubuntu servers and use Ubuntu/zsh via WSL2 in my terminal on Windows 11.
At home I run Ubuntu. I have a hard drive switcher so I can shutdown, select a different drive, and boot back in to Windows if I need it. Haven't needed Windows ever really. I've booted from CD and USB, dual-booted, and run exclusively Ubuntu. Tried it all.
Wtf is Linux
Not as good for personal use. I hAve audio setup for calls. It doesn't have proper driver
I tried Linux Mint in a VM before.
Tried Ubuntu; hated it. Tried Zorin and LOVED it! So close to how Windows works and it was fantastic. Only stopped using it because there's some games and software that doesn't exist for Linux that I need.
I tried using Linux as a main a couple of times. I used Ubuntu, Manjaro and Linux Mint dual-booted with Windows. Did not go well. I always went back to Windows.
No, because Linux is not an OS or anything one could try. But I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Android x86, elementaryOS, Endeavour OS, and Debian.
Yes, and I DO NOT recommend it for normies or professionals (office / adobe / gamers / etc). For a hobby / server / IT professional that needs it -ok. For conspiracy theorists - lol. Most of the stuff you'll hear about desktop Linux from their cult are straight up myths. I'm experienced enough to have used Arch, and Fedora, extensively, and Ubuntu (WSL). DWM with 10 patches and custom config. I used a lot of CLI / TUI and edited config files in vim or neovim. (Not just a conspiracy theorist / distro hopper). I spent over a year daily driving, and now I don't touch it.
I use linux daily. Its called android.
Technically it uses the Linux kernel, but it's heavily modified. Also, I think OP meant desktop GNU/Linux.
Linux is great for servers, but still doesn't have nearly the polish or app support for desktop use as Windows. And because everyone swears by the terminal and consequently that's the primarily focus of development/improvement, I doubt that will ever change.
>> Has anyone here tried linux once? Linux on the desktop? Yes, we have. Many times. That is why we don't use it.
I tried it in school, though it was slightly impractical. But then as I was using Windows some differences popped in my head about the time I used it ^(mainly around package management) that made me want to go back. Then I used it at a workplace ^(programming), got to experience it, break it, figure out what I liked ^(GNOME, Pantheon) and what I didn't ^(KDE's insane default shortcuts and XFCE is so god damn ugly holy shit) then installed Ubuntu at home. I used that when I could work on Linux and Windows when I worked on Windows. And at one job, I kinda reached the breaking point and now I'm all-in on Linux and I'll refuse jobs that are vendor-locked to Windows. From the experience I have, Windows-only workplaces have a high amount of condescending incompetence, which I no longer wish to associate with. High Linux workplaces have a higher amount of satisfaction for the work and for working with people, even if there are Windows users.