Asklemmy

windows ftw (forced through work) linux btw (because tortuous work)

I use Fedora 40, with KDE spin since I'm not a fan of the GNOME UI. I actually have windows on a sperate SSD on standby just in case I need some program that won't work even on WINE. The user experience is much better than windows, no random bugs/inexplicable disconnection of USB devices, No ads, No random bloatware that can only be uninstalled through the terminal like edge, The right-click menu doesn't take 6 seconds to load for inexplicable reasons & it doesn't raise the temperature of my PC by 10C because I opened my web browser or VSC

I can't get SteamVR to work in Linux unfortunately, it's the primary thing preventing me from deleting my Windows partition

Switched to Mint for desktop. Been mostly fine. Getting it installed was surprisingly harrowing. Annoyed that most mod tools for games are targeting windows. I guess I have to figure out wine and its whole prefix system.

Fedora KDE on home computer
Manjaro KDE on wife's computer
Endeavor Sway on small laptop
MX Linux XFCE on GPD Pocket
Fedora GNOME on work non-sanctioned laptop
Ubuntu WSL on work sanctioned laptop

Are there seriously no lemmy users on a Mac? Lol.

I use Debian.

Windows, but I'm looking to get a laptop I can dual boot into Linux. The pipeline strikes again.

I like that you're asking this on Lemmy, home of Linux lovers.

I'd use linux in a heartbeat if it was supported by the tools I use for work.

Linux for laptops. Windows for desktops.

Linux is not 100% there for me to really use. It never really was. I've sometimes tried to go through a folder of all of the setup files for programs and utilities I commonly use on Windows. I just know for a fact that while Linux has open source counterparts to some of them, they don't for all of them. Even if Linux did, it always feels like I have to take an extra step or two, to run it as opposed to on Windows by simply clicking it to run.

Then it's a matter of driver support as well.

Then it's the relentless browbeating from Linux fanboys that just turn me off from considering going full Linux. I keep envisioning this scenario where someone is calling tech support for like an audio issue and the support guy is going "I see, well...all you have to do is...GO LINUX!" he shouts in the ear piece at the caller. He would repeat "GO LINUX!" over and over until the caller hangs up, while he's still on the line, drooling over himself as he mumbles "Linux...." while imagining the Tux penguin, Torvalds and other open source figures. Eyes glossed over.

That's the kind of fanboyism I can't stand with Linux.

I was dual booting windows NT4 and Slackware 3.0. A lot of my old 3.11 and 95 software didn't work on NT4, so eventually I stopped using it.

I've moved on to Arch Linux, now, but the software I use to sync my palm pilot doesn't work. It's available in the AUR, but it won't build.

Windows. /s

The diagram of Linux fans and Lemmy users is pretty much a single circle.

My primary machine is still Windows, but pretty much all of my other machines run some version of Linux. The only reason my primary is winows is because I do a lot of 3d modeling and gaming. (Yes I own a steamdeck and it works really nice, but some of my fav's still refuse to just click the "let anticheat work on Linux" button.)

Built a new computer last year and didn't want anything to do with win11, so I switched to Linux Mint. I really like it, and there's a lot of help all around online. Thankfully because of Proton, I haven't had any trouble playing any game yet. It's been great!

I do miss ClipStudio for painting and OneNote for ttrpg notes, but I've been making due with Krita and Notion.

Windows at home because use computer only for gaming.

Windows at work because required.

Like Linux and used it for years but don't have a usecase currently that justify it.

Linux

I distro hop often but im currently using debian.

Linux, but I keep windows on the other drive just in case I need a windows only app. Rarely happens except for VR.

i switched to linux exclusively i think in 2011. currently using mx linux on my desktop.

For anything non-gaming I use Linux.

For anything gaming I still use Linux.

Currently Debian.

Been 100% Linux for over 3 years. All my servers, my fancy gaming PC, my personal laptop, my side business laptop, my work laptop, my Steam Deck, all Linux.

No dual boot, I have a single Windows VM on my work laptop to test Windows apps because my workplace is a Windows shop.

I don't miss Windows even a little bit. I am so much more free and enjoy computing way more now.

I switched to using Manjaro full time recently

GNU/Linux for life. Winbooze only at work, sadly.

Linux.

Mainly linux but i have windows for when i need to scan something or run programs that won't start trough wine. Mainly the driver for my hp printer since scanning doesnt work with hplip

Linux all the way, for loads of practical and ethical reasons

Both. I'd prefer Linux because it respects me as a user, but unfortunately too much stuff constantly breaks to fully convert. The moment I can play Assetto Corsa with all my mods using my wheel in VR I'll consider fully switching. Many other games already work though, so I'm slowly converting to using Linux as my default and Windows as the exception instead of the other way around.

(I use Arch btw)

Windows, namely because Paint Tool SAI only runs on Windows...

Windows to play pirated game

Linux for everything else, including work.

GNU Guix FTW.

Permanently Linux since 2001. Debian is life.

As much as I'd like to use Linux, I use windows because I need OneNote, Teams and Office.

Windows and Linux dual boot on my PC. Linux on Steam Deck (obviously, since it's the default)

I use both. Windows for the domain, backup, Video-surveillance, emby and some other critical things, and linux for proxmox and a lot of diverse vms. Mainly ubuntu lts.

It's not a religous thing, it's a pragmatic one. Best tool for the job

Both. It's not like you have to use only one.

Windows due to gaming.

Linux

TempleOS

i get to use linux at home, im forced to use and support windows at work