If it weren't for video games, would you have any reason to use Windows?
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Just werks.
This.
Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
I like the Windows maids. I used to not like Windows at all and complain if a computer has Windows, but then people showed me the maids and now I like it. I don't use the computer for games, just for making programs so I have never cared about installing games or running Direct X or whatever. It is easy to make Java and C programs in Windows, but I haven't found a solution to play with Scheme yet. I have been using SBCL instead but I really want to try Scheme because a lot of nice books got written in/about it. I could probably get it if I used WSL, but I don't want to use WSL.
Linux is only a time sink if you have a very low IQ and a lot of problems with reading comprehension.
>laptops and desktops
Why do you care about immobile legacy form factors? Laptops shouldn't even be produced anymore, and that form factor is dangerous to your back, neck and other joints.
It shouldn't be viewed as normal to be expected to waste thousands of dollars on """""ergonomic""""" cope office equipment when you could just pick a better form factor to begin with.
>Why do you care about immobile legacy form factors?
I like my ThinkPad. Sorry.
>Linux is only a time sink if you have a very low IQ and a lot of problems with reading comprehension.
So having to read a lot of unnecessary shit is not a time sink?
>implying he didn't spend time to learn all those Windows tricks
Not every distribution is like Gentoo.
I was up and running on raspbian in less time than it took me to install W10 LTSC but that meant using a raspberry pi and it was just a novelty. I didn't have an issue running Ubuntu in a VM either. I don't really know anything about computers, I just wanted to see what it was about.
If you're talking simply productivity stuff, I use a Macbook for work. I don't like the way it does window management but for literally every other element of the user experience I prefer it over Windows.
Also the ads in Windows have gotten comical. It's like opening up a porn site when you use it now.
At least 4 pieces of software I need for work only exist for Windows. So I NEED Windows for both work and play. I have used MacOS a little, it's ok. I've used Linux a little, it's ok too. But it's gotta be Windows for me.
>acknowledges validity of all major desktop OS
>continues to use one anyway because his workload demands it over the others
You are a very based man
That thing looks like a (neo) PS2/X68k hybrid.
All the games I wanted to play worked on Linux, there's no reason for me to use windows except my uni laptop is on windows because we are not allowed to install another OS on it and it sucks.
Not really
windows as a whole kinda blows unless you have specific things you need to do.
Engineering software for uni.
Sometimes browser microshit office isn't good enough when colaborating.
One game i play with friends is baerly playable on windows.
font rendering
What makes Windows font rendering superior?
the way it renders fonts
The fact that Linux DE devs will deliberately frick up font rendering on Linux and tell people "I don't know what happened, but it must have been the correct behavior and you must be wrong."
This is a GNOME problem, not a Linux problem. GNOME developers are notoriously stubborn and dismissive.
Right, that's another thing with Linux. GNOME devs have attitude problems, and everyone else has incompetence problems. Anything not named GNOME is impossibly buggy and unstable.
KDE qt stack always had kind of blurry fonts, I can literally see rainbow around my glyphs right now on my screen, and GNOME used to be much better in that regard and now is way worse in everything.
And just a reminder, if you don't use GNOME you still use either GTK or Qt, so all those issues still apply to you. You can't just shrug it off to "linux is just le kernel".
>You can't just shrug it off to "linux is just le kernel".
To be clear, that's not what I'm doing. The post I was replying to was complaining about "Linux DE devs" fricking up font rendering and telling users to frick off. That is a GNOME/GTK specific issue. KDE/Qt's font rendering may not be up to your standards either, but at least this is an issue you can broach with KDE developers, and they'll listen to your feedback instead of being arrogant wienersuckers and treating you like shit on the bottom of a shoe.
KDE developers are seriously a model for FOSS in general
No they are not.
Is that your desktop? If so, how did you change the entire colorscheme like that?
Also, you could report that to the KDE developers and it would get fixed. If you reported that to GNOME developers, they would just remove the feature outright and call you a moron.
It isn't being fricked up by GNOME devs.
I need it for work but only for AD and office. Basically all of the actual work I do happens on Linux boxes.
I use Windows but only have one game installed (a WoW private server) which would work fine under X/Ubuntu.
For laptops and desktops it just works, sorry. My homeserver runs Ubuntu of course.
Laptop Linux support is kind of random but for desktops you don't usually NEED Windows.
Remember you're talking to morons still using windows 7/8
I thought a lot of these threads are a larp but low iq morons do exist in droves
My Realtek LAN driver actually works on Windows.
Ironically most games just werk aside from VR so not really.
I don't need to really deal with subscription based professional software or boomerware regularly either so my Windows VM has gotten less use as I've gotten more comfortable with Linux.
Nothing else runs my engineering stuff so yes
No, I don't personally see a reason to use Windows at all. All the software I need for work is available on Linux, and generally speaking, I prefer open-source applications wherever possible. Sure, maybe they aren't always up to the same standards as some professional, proprietary software suite or whatever, but I think that issue is massively overblown, and for personal use, most open source software is more than sufficient (and isn't plagued with telemetry, ads, bullshit business models, and other user-disrespecting bullshit) or is even the superior option within its domain. I could run a lot of this software on Windows too, but I really like how my desktop works and the features it has, so Windows as an environment would just feel like an immense downgrade.
In any case, I don't see a reason to use Windows for gaming either, everything I want to play works on Linux pretty seamlessly. If I ever ran across a game I couldn't run, or I really needed some specific program in Windows, I would just run it in a VM with gpu passthrough or something.
I stopped using Windows in highschool
I just used my ps4 to play games instead
>UI not designed by people doing it for free
>It just works
>Usable DPI scaling (FRICK WAYLAND)
>WSL2 if you need Linux dev
It's comfy and works.
I can't call myself a competent IT person if I have to force everyone to stop using Windows if they want help from me.
As for career paths, there isn't a single technology job where you don't have to interact with Windows machines. If I stop using Windows, I'll unlearn useful admin tools and powershell commands quickly, making me less useful in that field and replaceable.
Linux and BSD are a lot better to me, but I think Windows can and should co-exist rather than being outrationalized and completely replaced. Think of it as Yin and Yang between corporate closed-source software and FSF-approved FOSS. Getting rid of either extreme sides isn't possible (at least not permanently), as the new Yin or Yang would introduce itself as a more extreme opposite.
>As for career paths, there isn't a single technology job where you don't have to interact with Windows machines
many software devs don't need to my janny friend
At work, there is still sadly some Windows-exclusive software I need to use that won't work right on Wine no matter how hard I try. I wish I could switch, but at the moment I just can't.
On my personal machines, I switched to GNU/Linux exclusively many years ago and never looked back. Even when it comes to games, every single game I care about works GNU/Linux anyway.
Most of my games work just fine in Linux these days. I only boot Windows anymore to play Tarkov multiplayer because that game's anti-cheat doesn't work with Proton.
I fricking hate Wangblows, but can't not vidya
need the Linux-exclusive Filesystems too
Yes, i use the unity gane engine and c# so i need it because i tried to use it on linux and it was total shit. Aside from that not really, all my other pcs run mint.
Linux is just a timesink and you get nothing in return for it, no one even pays for Windows anyway and almost everything can be pirated.
Why would any sane human being want to subject themselves to Linux? I've never understood it, nothing works out of the box, you have to beg any competent developer for a linux port/version or almost everything and there are 1000000 different distros that each solve nothing in particular
>linux is just a time sink
it's not. stop using meme distros
The entirety of Linux is a meme distro, I'm glad some schizos are still making it to keep pressure on microsoft as a looming, distant threat but it will never actually be anything more than a distraction for 99.9% of users
>the entirety of linux is a meme distro
It's either bait or someone whose tech knowledge doesn't go past /pcbg/, just ignore it
>The entirety of Linux is a meme distro
Linux is a kernel.
Minecraft and TF2 run fine on linux so I don't need windows
Some of my courses require using Windows programs, so yes.
I prefer the look and feel of Windows to any of its alternatives. Mac lost me with the Catalina and Linux just breaks too often for me to trust
.NET based programs, honestly, as much as I hate windows, .NET makes it decent.
nope
Some adobe stuff but that's about it off the top of my head.
Also it helps for productivity to have my entertainment and work clearly separated on my PC
No way to fix garbage font rendering. Too much tinkering. It took up most of my time when I used Arch as a daily driver. Install Japanese VNs is a pain in the ass. Touch-pad and track point controls also feel like shit on Linux.
Other than gaming? I don't know. There's probably some Windows-only software that I need or will need, but I suppose I can just set up a VM if I have to.
Not sure what else I would actually use, since I'm too much of a Linux noob to use the hardening guide and I hate modern macOS. Security is important to me.
>Security is important to me.
Then windows isn't an option either.
I might've gotten a mac if I didn't play vidya.
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Erotic games are the only reason why I keep a windows VM, and that's only for the few games that don't work with WINE.
No
Stop promoting Linux gay. It's going to get full of viruses. It's already starting.