Asklemmy

I adore Linux, but at present, I use Windows 11 on all my devices.

My main PC is primarily for gaming, with an NVIDIA GPU (which whilst much better on Linux now, still isn't perfect), so Windows works better there.

For work, also Windows 11, since I'm a software dev, creating Windows software with .NET, ASP.NET, deploying to Windows machines, IIS, using MS SQL server etc. All in Visual Studio.

The Windows ecosystem just... works better for my use-cases, regardless of how much I do like Linux!

Windows on my PC (ugh) and Fedora on my laptop, been thinking of moving the PC to linux mint, but still a bit hesitant.

Windows 11 unfortunately, for two reasons:

• I was a fool and bought forza horizon 5 on the Microsoft store instead of steam, so I’m not able to run it on Linux at all. I’m also not going to buy it twice since it ain’t cheap.
• VR support on linux is… patchy. It’s ok if you’re using a Vice or Index, but I’m using a 1st Oculus Quest, so while ALVR exists, it’s not perfect. I do intend on jumping to linux when FH6 domes out and I’ve relaxed the oculus, though.

Arch Linux (old laptop) and Windows 10 (on my gaming PC, at least until it reaches end of life, then it's all gonna be linux)

This week it's arch, though I do dual boot win11 specifically for iracing and iracing alone as that doesn't let me run it under proton.

Pirated version of Windows 10 LTSC (v2021) because FUCK Microsoft.

I'm back to Windows 10 (now 11) on my main PC since I bought an Xbox and there's hassle-free Cloud gaming, crossplay etc.

When I exclusively played on PC and built the new Machine, I was too cheap to buy a Windows licence. I tried Pop!OS because I like their gaming-focussed apporach. All games that were relevant to me (via Steam, mostly) worked fine.

I've since bought a Steam Deck, so I'm running SteamOS as well.

Fedora and Arch right now. Fedora is what I main and Arch is just for ricing and testing things. Been trying out VanillaOS recently and I really like it. I use Void and Gentoo on occasion when I feel like tinkering.

#garudalinux #archlinux , cause I have full control over everything on my system. Everything else gets put in a virtual machine using KVM.

Fedora with Gnome on my Framework laptop. Before that it was Mac OS X/macOS on a MacBook Pro. And before that a variety of shitty Windows versions on equally shitty equipment.

Ubuntu cinnamon on my shared computer. MABOX Linux on my fuck-around Chromebook.

Windows 10. Why? Because 80% of my creative software doesn't work on Linux and I dislike Apple products.

I use arch btw 😎

But fr, between the regular pacman repos, the aur, and flatpak, I can easily get just about any piece of sofware I could ever want with almost no exceptions. Other distros are definitely getting closer, but it seems like arch has always been the undisputed king here. I also like how rolling release means everything is always up to date and I don't have to mess with a major "system upgrade" potentially breaking things.

Laptop: popos Reason: 2 hours battery on windows, 8-12 hours on popos due to sleep issues on windows and Nvidia GPU not turning off on windows.

Desktop: Windows, too many apps without relevant replacements.

Servers: Linux or bsd(depending on vm/reason)

Linux, usually Arch or Mint

pop os on my laptop and pc, steam os on my deck. my work laptop uses mac os, and they had me use a w*ndows machine for a while but that's getting shipped back soon.

i'm not really surprised at the demographics here; it does make sense that so many of us would prefer the foss operating systems

Windows 11.

I just require Windows for a lot of software. The thing holding me back from switching to a Linux distro, used to be Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop. I have since moved to DaVinci resolve, and I also purchased the Affinity Suite.

Now the problem is that the Affinity Suite doesn't support Linux either..

It's getting exhausting trying to make Linux work for me, and I already have to give up a lot of stuff, and make compromises, so I'm just sticking with Windows.

Void linux with swaywm. Its blazingly fast and I lime to tinker

Win 10, explicitly because I run CAD software (Autodesk Inventor specifically at home) and the linux compatibility workarounds like wine have not worked properly the last few times I have tried them. I could dual boot but I just don't feel like putting the time in to set it up and use it anymore.

I just use Ubuntu 22.04 on my personal home-built PC. It just works, and I'm not interested in too much tinkering. My wife's PC also runs Ubuntu 22.04, I have a ton of raspberry Pi's with standard raspbian on them. And my work laptop runs Windows 11 and it is decent enough.

I'm happy. I can run Steam with all the games I want pretty flawlessly, with some minor tinkering sometimes. But it is a solid experience.

Windows 10 on my main box, Ubuntu on my two media servers and OSX on my laptop

Ubuntu Mate on two main PCs. One running windows ten for TurboTax 😭

Debian and Arch Linux. The Yin and Yang of Linux distros. Debian daily, Arch for occasional gaming

Arch because:

• it is the only distro I could install my wifi drivers on when I started with GNU/Linux
• too poor to afford hardware for Gentoo
• bloat = bad
• spyware = bad
• Appl€ & Micro$oft = bad