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people are surprisingly opinionated about it.

Getting repeatedly burned by soulless multibillion dollar comanies tends to do that to a person.

I think there's plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don't notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.

Of course there are.

It also shouldn't be surprising that something like Lemmy, an open-source project originally aimed at tech geeks and still used by a LOT of tech geeks, is filled with Linux users. Linux is an open-source project used by a lot of tech geeks.

Yeah, we can just STFU about it.

What is your question? I do use Linux at home, and nothing else. But at work, I have to use Windows or macOS if I want a salary. macOS is better than Windows because it's a unix like lunix.

Linux at home. Linux, macOS, and Windows at work.

I use everything.

Windows 10 still on my main desktop, although there is a Zorin nvme setup inside, just need to make the final change. Got a 3070 rtx a few years ago I barely get to use.

Windows server 2022 for my DNS/pinhole setup

Windows 10 LTSC for my seeding/downloading

Zorin on my main laptop

Zorin on my kids old renewed 12" MacBook air.

Windows 11 on my kids desktop with a local account. (he's my guinea pig)

I just used opencore legacy patcher to put sanoma on a 2012 27" iMac that was meant to be recycled. Just ordered kit to take it apart and upgrade the hdd since it's slow as fuck.

I have bazzite on an old Lenovo gaming laptop

Windows 11 for work

Husband uses genuine MacBook pro from 2016 or so

Truenas scale for my home file server and Plex media. Old secondhand AMD ryzen 7 3700x and as much ram I could find from recycling old devices. 4x 20TB drives I bought refurb in 2024 when I rebuilt it all, had had this thing almost 20 years, just upgrading as needed

Truenas scale (second) for my backups with Veeam, secondhand AMD ryzen 5 4500 and 32G recycled RAM.

Proxmox server for testing fun things.

I love dabbling in everything and keeping old hardware alive. Nearly all my hardware is from clients that needed their devices wiped and recycled. I destroy their data and save what I can for fun/education. Things that are just too old or unreliable or unsupported for businesses are great.

I wipe and reload many I can't use, give them away. I think that's all my stuff.

I have an 2025 M4 Pro 16” MacBook Pro, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. But I also have a 2012 iMac that’s running Fedora

I like both Macs and Linux. I see them both as having their places. macOS is a form of UNIX/BSD after all, so they interoperate particularly well.

i love windows 3.1 and 95 does that count?

I still use Windows 10 for my gaming rig. I only use Linux for servers. Rn the only server I have is my media server; it's running off an old Samsung Galaxy S7 phone with a 2TB microSD card running Slackware.

Unfortunately. At least for work-purposes.

I'm an "other" user.

Mac for personal, Linux for work. Been that way for over 20 years. They tried to force us to switch to new windows machines (we’re a linux shop) and i said i’d quit first. They tried to sell the WSL crap… i showed them how my 8 yr old machine ran circles around their new windows laptop. I’m still running linux. Every ounce of my being hates windows. Mac just works. Linux (for me) just works. Linux can be a bit fiddly at times. But once it’s working, it just works.

Windows and Linux.

There are Windows and Microsoft communities but they aren't very active

I've used all three OS, and I flat out prefer windows. I realize it's a minority opinion here and that's fine. People can use whatever OS works for them and as long as they are happy, good on them.

I use all 3. Mac and Linux on my personal computers. Strong believer in use the tool that works best for the situation.

Battery life was the saling point for the Mac, software is whatever, I try to avoid all locked in features and software. Prefer Linux due to flexibility. Windows has annoyed me with all the crashes, slow performance, and increasing need to dump shit on us. Only use it personally when a game doesn't work on Linux.

At work, its just windows. I use WSL when I need to do some coding outside of a browser. Most of the time its noticeably slower than it would be on Mac or Linux but not my computer, so its whatever.

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.

My PC still runs on Windows 10 and my phone is still Android 16. I just don't care enough to bother changing cause I haven't had any issues with my current setup.

Been a Mac user for 15 or so years. Then hackintosh and then when that died went to various Linux distros for my desktop but I use a M1 MacBook pro for work still and an M3 MacBook Pro for personal use. Tho I’m falling out of love with apple I enjoy the usability of macOS (at least past versions). Really wish Linux had that level of polish.

I use Linux (though dual boot Windows for Fusion 360 and a lot of Windows at work), but if someone asks me about switching to Linux I don't ram it down their throat. It's good and all but it's really not for everyone, and despite what people on here would have you think it's certainly not as easy to use as Windows. You're much more likely to run into a difficult problem and not know how to fix it though it's changed a bit since you can just get Claude to take a look at things now. Windows can have annoyances but generally you can live with them.

Linux, I think, is for people who are quite technical and people who aren't technical at all (and just need a web browser). For the people inbetween Linux can be a struggle. It's improving incredibly quickly but the out-of-the-box experience is still pretty terrible (looking especially at KDE here).

Work: windows laptop. It's fine.

Home: dual-boot. More windows time than Linux generally (I'm almost afraid to "admit" that on this forum, ha)

I don't want making my computer function, to be a hobby.

I want to get off Windows but every time I have tried to switch to linux, stupid stuff makes it a pain in the ass. This last time, I tried Zorin. I put chrome on it (not my computer) and it just absolutely refused to run. I spent my whole day off just trying to get chrome to not brick the computer. No dice.This is just one instance of at least 4 or 5 times I have legitimately tried to switch, or tried to switch someone else to Linux.

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.

Macs are my daily driver and have been for decades. You'll have to fight me to take mine.

I use Linux for VMs and NUCs and servers. Less than I did a decade ago, but that's only because I have less energy to put into random projects as I get older. Gone are the late-night hackathons until 4am. I support mostly Windows at work.

Use and support windows systems at work. I'm at a small business that uses some ancient software that is only Windows compatible.

At home am fully switched over to Linux.