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Why did you move from Windows to Linux? (leminal.space)
submitted 1 week ago by umbrellacloud@leminal.space to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.

Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.

Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Self-respect. I'm not going to tolerate my property being sabotaged against me in service of some other entity, and I don't understand why anybody else would either.

As soon as Windows 10 "telemetry" (read: spyware) started getting backported into Windows 7 almost a decade ago, I was gone.

Windows users in 2025 are nothing but cucks and simps for corporate abuse. They don't "just buy, have, and use a computer;" they are part of the problem.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, most people who use Windows are ignorant of any of this stuff so while I guess they are technically part of the problem (debatably), it's not knowingly. With that in mind it seems unwise to tar them all with the same brush and set them up as the enemy if we hope to convince any of them to abandon it.

[–] Dymonika@lemmy.one -1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, @grue@lemmy.world, it's really messed up to say, "You're an idiot!" to an idiot's face. These people need help, not punishment. Saying the victims are "part of the problem" is insane. The only targets you should be allowed to judge are those who know about everything (both Microsoft's antics and Linux) and still choose to not move; anyone else is not on the enemy's side or anything near that dramatic, geez.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

cucks and simps

Lmao!!! So true. But most people don't know why they are actually these things.