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Why people gave up using linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by Fint0034@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?

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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I started out on Red Hat over 20 years ago, then went to Gentoo for a few years. I got a new job after the me I was at crashed and burned and switched or the Fedora, but the rest of the folks at the shop were running fancy new MacBooks as was the style at the time. As a tech lead I didn’t like the idea of being the odd one out when it came to what we were running so I just bit the bullet when my linux laptop died and got a MacBook and I’ve just stuck with that ever since, at least for professional dev work. It’s still a UNIX under the hood and I get most of what I want and basically all of my tooling is OSS and free software, and I don’t have to mess with fiddly settings anymore. I still run Linux server-side and keep a few Linux laptops around, but I just run macOS now for dev work and I’m fine with that.

I did my time with compiling the entire thing from scratch in my Gentoo days, did all sorts of tweaking on compiler switches for KDE and X, debugged kernel drivers on racks of Dell PowerEdge blades when the network stack would inexplicably start dropping packets seemingly randomly, all that stuff. I still run Linux but it just ain’t my daily driver anymore.

And I have a Steam Deck too, so there’s that.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have incompatible hardware.

[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I felt this with one of the laptops I put KDE Neon on. It had all manner of issues that never got a resolution.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Having to mess with it every time I turn it on.

[–] Lusamommy@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

This. Both macOS and windows out a huge amount of effort into making sure things just work. And that's extremely valuable to many people.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It's just too much work, and I've only ever experienced Gnome in the distros I've tried and hated it. Windows is far from perfect but I know it like the back of my hand. Every step of the way in trying to use Linux for me was a chore.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

i use all OS so i didn’t give linux up but i don’t use it in a lot of cases that i think it should be better.

i got frustrated at snapd and the whole container by default approach most distros are going.

selinux already does what people want jails to be doing. app armor worked well enough.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I got tired of the graphics breaking every update.

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