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Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
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Sounds like you're willing to forgive a mountain of bullshit for windows but nothing for a non corporate os
Priority one is having a working computer. Priority two is evading future spyware.
Priority three is using an OS where seeking support for issues doesn’t produce the reply “Sounds like you fucked something up, idiot, because it works perfectly for me!”
I've received that reply too many times and can understand why it turns people away. I got lucky and eventually got someone more willing to actually help and been dual booting since.
I didn't call you an idiot. I just implied you're looking for reasons to avoid change. Which sounds doubly true after this comment.
You're saying this to someone who took the time to format a drive to install Linux, read up on recommended partition structure, and take the time tweaking desktop settings to my preference, in genuine hope it would become a daily driver so I could stop using Windows. All of that effort still wasn't enough.
The quote wasn't pointed to you, but it was a generalized view of how seeking help turns out. Your above comment, and this one, are showing the same thing: You, and Linux users in general, need only the tiniest justification to belittle someone for not being a 100% Linux devotee/apologist.
I sounds like you suffer from internalized proprietary.
It was a response to me. Yeah I don't really understand people who claim to have put a lot of effort into using Linux and then had to switch back after truly giving it a shot. Because that describes my experience with it 15 years ago. The improvements since then are enormous, yet people always seem to expect me to believe that in fact no, it's not just a handful of issues/adjustments. It's actually still unusable. I'm sure writing this makes me a monstrous vitriolic asshole but whatever. It doesn't. We both know windows has a fuckton of issues. Being used to them doesn't erase them.
"sounds like you're biased against it"
"OMG how fucking insulting!"
Also people are switching to Linux so I'm not asking that incorrectly premised question
yeah I decided I didn't want to get involved in this and deleted that comment over an hour ago. idk why you can still see it but I'm out ✌️
"None of my stuff works but I least I don't have to use WinBloWz$$$"
The only thing I have that doesn't work, actually smoother and faster than windows, is anti cheat in some games. But really that just makes me play less games with garbage business models. I can just reboot into windows any time but I do about once every 5 months because it's a piece of shit
Do you honestly think people who hate windows do it for no reason? I guarantee anyone who hates windows has used it for 10+ years and could easily list 20 legit complaints
That’s me. Spent 20 years on windows and then decided to buy a Mac as an experiment. After about a month I was a lifetime convert
Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?
We're not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we'd like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.
You're not well informed on the topic, that much shows