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What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux? (distrowatch.com)
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Heyho, recently someone asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.

The most boring but valid one is "I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)". But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.

What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am very pro Linux but “I like Windows” is valid enough for me. I might ask why but I am not going to act like that reason is invalid.

[–] helix@feddit.org -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If they like Windows 11 I'd distance myself and watch my back while I'm doing it. Windows 10 was OK, 7 was great, 8 was at least not completely shit but the vibe coded mess of 11 can only appeal to serial killers or Hellraisers.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The people that say this probably never upgraded from Windows 10. Nobody who uses Windows 11 likes Windows (except my friend who works in software development, I don't know what's going on in his head).

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I have windows 11 on my gaming PC and work laptop and don't think it's any worse than 10. Some UI is confused between old style and new, but Windows has done that since Vista. 11 doesn't have so much of the awful drop-downs without borders and so on where you can't tell where one component ends and another starts.