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Why do many people dislike Linux? Freedom and openness: Open source, No vendor lock-in, Many distributions Security: By default, more secure than Windows. Fewer viruses. Regular security updates.

And now briefly.

Control & Flexibility,Free, Developer Friendly, Productivity, Education & Understanding, Support & Community, Support & Community, Package Managers, Server & Cloud Friendly

Oh yeah, I forgot about our gamers! They will whine that you can't play games on Linux. It's very funny because for a long time there has been a program called lux-wine that allows you to open 95% of .exe programs and even more so you can choose any version of Windows without downloading anything, there is like proton and so on.

I am ready to talk to anyone about this topic, but not for the purpose of humiliation or insult.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know anybody that actively dislikes Linux. I do know a lot of people that only knows it by name though. And I don't see the need to create strawman rivalry with users of another operating system because I don't use Linux to augment my personality. But maybe that's just me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

No offense but I hope not 😀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not that they actively dislike it, or even remotely. It's just that they're used to Windows or MacOS better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well, there is some truth here too.