for me Linux was love at first sight, it seemed so simple, fast and versatile that I switched almost immediately to it

For me it was a bit of both. Windows' intrusiveness and Linux looking awesome.

Literally the reason why I switched to Linux. I actually wanted to try out Linux in 2025, the eol of Windows 10, but I just switched sooner because my Windows install broke, and I didn't want to setup Windows again.

When I first used Linux back in like 2001-2002, it wasn't easy just to get it to run. Once I got it running though, I saw a system that, while a challenge to get running, was fundamentally different than Windows and all I thought was, this will go places. The legacy way of doing things in Windows didn't apply, no more drive letters, no more defragging (this was before SSDs were the norm), etc.. I saw something that could grow into a full Windows replacement for everything. Since then, I've bounced back between Linux only and going back to Windows (gaming was a holdout for the longest time). After proton came on the scene and Windows 10 updates wrecking my PC again and again (Windows 10 had only been around for about 6 months to a year) I finally gave up on Windows for good. I've been Windows free at home ever since then and only deal with what now feels like "legacy Windows" at work. Turns out Windows was more work to maintain properly at home between forced updates (many of which broke things), keeping on top of telemetry turning itself back on, keeping on top of checking for updates to all my apps separately with their own updaters, etc. Windows was literally just too much work to maintain. As an engineer, I deal with lots of system issues in IT at work. After work, I don't want MORE system issues because of BS Microsoft decisions. Sure Apple does their own thing, but they too take decisions away from end users with their walled garden approach to things. That left Linux which I already knew and it turns out that Linux "just works" for what I want to do on my home PCs and home network. The choice was obvious. When I see people moving to Linux today, 9/10 it's because Windows is such a bad experience for them as the number one reason with the bad choices Microsoft has been making and that hole thing about who owns their computer being the second reason. Microsoft is actively losing the tech community. If not to Linux, them most likely to MacOS. And if Valve had their way, Microsoft would also be losing the gaming community at a much faster rate. Lose the tech community and the normies will eventually follow. It's the techies the normies know that they go to for computing advice. If none of the techies are on board with Microsoft, the normies aren't going to trust Microsoft either. They're going to want to use what their techie friends are using.

I actually switched to Linux after using macOS for 20 years. I stopped buying Apple products in 2016 and had been making Hackintosh rigs til last year. I woke up one day and realized I'm done with all this; brute-forcing my way into using an operating system is beneath me, so after spending some time looking for a new home, I landed on Fedora and have been using it ever since. I'm at a point where I genuinely don't care and don't wanna trash talk Microsoft / Apple and its fans. I love Linux but if that's not your thing, you do you, it's all good.

I was one of the few who jumped because I liked the look of it. My English teacher in high school had a computer with Ubuntu 10.04 setup for any kids who didn't have a computer/internet at home to use whenever they needed it. He answered all of my questions about Linux and I was running it on my laptop within the month. It ran soooo much better than Vista on that thing (I really should have just been using XP) that I never looked back. I've taken my approach to Linux from him. Never preach it, only answer questions. Answer truthfully, including the downsides. And let people do whatever the hell they want with their own PCs. That's the Linux philosophy anyway LOL

Yes, my reason exactly! Some 8 or 10 years ago I tried to solve some problem with windows for several days. I kinda "solved" it by bricking my pc in the process. Then I decided that that's enough and switched to linux. It wasn't smooth, but it was worth it.

Honestly you're right. Pissed me off that win11 was so unnecessary overbloated. I had experienced linux before. The improvement in compatibility made me stay in Arch so far, don't regret it. Gotta install linux for a co-worker tomorrow. I'm thinking about Mint since I have no background about his tech knowledge.

I can't even fault them for that. At work I use macOS and at home I game on Linux. I have been doing it for so long that I just don't feel the need to switch. For gaming, I have been using PopOS since it released and I just haven't run into much of anything that makes me want to switch either. We have SO (too?) many games out that it doesn't even bother me anymore seeing games come out only for Windows. I use to be upset that I couldn't play COD on Linux. But with games like Helldivers, The Finals, Palworld, and SOO many more games that come; it doesn't even matter to me and my fiends anymore. Some of them play on Windows and some play on Linux, and for 80% of the time, it never comes up. Even as a dad of 2, the time that I have to quickly get a gaming session in isn't even impacted by being on Linux anymore. I do my OS/driver updates after our gaming session, and I can even just pickup the steam deck if I need something quicker to pickup. But I know that's just my situation, I'm sure there's others with different experiences than mine.

For me it was the freedom, and wanting to be free of Microsofts telemetry and decision making. Since I'm a programmer, the full move made sense, and has been great.

using mint/ pop os on my laptop and windows on my main pc. the only thing that kept me using windows is music production and some few game.

I really love all 3. Mac for my laptop. Windows for my desktop. Linux for my servers. All 3 valid. I make it work.

That was exactly my mindset in 2019. The GWX fiasco was the last straw. Now I run Ubuntu Studio Linux. I still run Windows 7 totally offline for some legacy purposes.

Removing the ability to NOT combine/group taskbar items was the hair that broke the camels back for me.

I have played around with Linux since PCLinuxOS started. Never fully moved over, until recently. I got tired of all the intrusion M$ was attempting to do with Windows. I distro hopped a LOT, during that time. Even went back and forth with windows and linux. After seeing what the next windows is going to have, I HAD to make a decision. I made it and am running arch (sorry, lol). I also have a system with Debian. I haven't missed windows to much, and am working through the "withdrawals". I am loving it though. Chris, I will tell you this. Thank you for the videos you post. They have made my Linux Life much better.

I tried Linux in the 1990's and early 2000's because it looked interesting. I continued to mess with it until around 2017 when Win10 broke itself on some update. Then I knew I could use Linux for my daily driver home and small office work. While I still have some donated Windows boxes for some special work, every defrag I don't have to do, every antivirus I don't have to run, and every time I don't have to mess with Windows as a sysadmin when it manages to break an update, or resets all their $pyware settings, etc. is wonderful.

Windows Updates vs rendering/cad designing on a big proyect.... Man thats priceless. I almost broke my laptop past week

One thing coming from switching to Linux temporally sometimes is that I do not miss Linux its self I miss being able to customize my desktop experience like I prefer to use DMenu and a tiling window manager, Polybar and having full control over my key bindings where it is more convenient to use for work then windows. but I enjoy the plug and play aspect of windows where if I install a game or set something up I know its going to work without the need to troubleshoot at the end of it.

Well Windows prevented me from sleeping and I found your Arch challenge back in the day :P

I'd always been interested in it when I saw Ubuntu back in 2009, but back then it didn't have anywhere near the level of software compatibility of things I used until I checked on things again last year, Wine had improved tenfold, Yabridge existed for my windows VSTs and Reaper had been native for a while and Steam was getting good on it too. Had always been a Windows user. From '95 to 10. 11 took the cake though. It was just wall to wall ads. Moved to LMDE and haven't looked back. It's not been entirely headache free but I've ironed out most of the kinks to where it takes me like an hour at most to get my system from a fresh install.

that's how it happened to me, On my last year of colleague I had so many blue screens I was strongly considering moving to Linux, the straw that broke the camel's back was when I turned on my PC and was greeted with a blue screen

I'm fine with either. However, I'd much prefer to be on Linux- no marketing bs. Can get on with my projects. The hoop jumping can get annoying on Linux too though. Mostly due to proprietary software for the workplace. (VDI / etc) Thankfully, I haven't had enough catastrophic events on Windows to shun it, but yeah frustrating sometimes.

Chris, please make a video on how to to use kde + hyprland or qtile for the window manager instead of kwin. Meaning all the services of kde and hyprland or qtile as window manager in wayland same session.

I havent used Window in while. I have been using EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma 5 or 4 months

The shift from 10 to 11, the ads built into Windows, the annoying updates, the high resource usage, and the inconsistency in the design all pushed me away. Used Linux for nearly a year, got me through most of my Masters classes totally fine. Most things are online anyway, main thing you need is a browser. Now I'm using ChromeOS Flex and really hope that it's one of Google's projects that actually sticks around. I can install many of the Linux apps I need, the OS has a nice uniform design, it's quick to boot, the sleep mode and lock consistently work without issue, and it's plenty snappy even on my cheap Celeron laptop with 4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC.

Definitely agreed. I had tried Linux a few times before, but I finally made the permanent switch a couple of years ago. Between gaming becoming really solid on Linux and Microsoft recent developments pissing me off, I felt compelled to try it for real. Couple of years later I can say I am an intermediate-advanced Arch user, known my away around the system settings and couldn't imagine myself going back. At least not permanently, Currently I'm having the issue that I started a project in Unreal Engine and in order to build for Windows you must be on Windows, so maybe I will have a partition of Windows for that particular purpose. But I love Linux. You can feel how nice it is being out of Microsoft's grasp, always watching. And always dropping performance for the random shenanigans going on in the background.

Basically me. I use to be a long time Windows User from Win98 to Win11. I eventually got tired of Windows 11 with all the bloatware, sudden slowdowns, gimmicks, eating half of my ram, & kept teasing me to set-up despite I was already set-up. That's when I eventually gave up on Windows & switched to Linux Mint, which has been MUCH more peaceful for me after using it for over a year.

Depends on the actual use of your device and the needs you have: as a software engineer, I initially switched to Linux since I needed a shell like bash for ex. that was integrated with a terminal, a package manager to install all the coding tools I needed, and most importantly, to update at my will. That was a starter for me, which helped me learning more the linux kernel and how a unix based os should be like, until I was able yo afford a macbook, the choice was only related to the device specs of the m-chips. I rarely use Windows nowadays, even forgot what it looks like 😅 I game on consoles to avoid unnecessary setups, I believe its more of a legacy trend of my generation I believe

can you make a single gpu passthrough tutorial? TIA

Surprisingly I'm among the former. I saw a really awesome setup (nothing too fancy or riced) and I just thought to myself, I need to have it. And so I switched to Linux. I never really had much reason to be pissed at windows untill I realised just how bad it was in comparison to what I'm using now, after I've spent a while using Linux.

Yep. I do not want to be on 11 once 10 is EOL. Working on making awesome wm work for me since I've used xfce on my laptops for the past 5 years. Find myself just needing a wm now. Hopefully finally migrate to a lenovo tiny pc as my host system. Keep my windows desktop purely to stream games from over my network or through a capture card. I'm not sure yet

I moved to Linux mainly due to wanting to become more familiar with it for work reasons. Felt it best to make the full switch rather than just spinning up a VM now and then to check it out. Probably a minority switch reason I would guess!

I moved to linux for what it can do and also to get the best out of older hardware. It was bad memories of Windows that kept me there through some of the tougher times. All is lovely now.

i got sold when i saw wobbly windows

I didn't have many issue with Windows, other than it simply broke on my too often. This happened with the ones in the '90s (although, I was a kid and didn't know what not to do), and every single one after. - I tried Ubuntu (specifically, cause it was supposedly the most "user-friendly", which... might have been true at some point, but wasn't enough so, and is especially not true today), but it was too bare for me and I got lost as to what to do. - So I gave up on Windows 7 and actually stopped using a proper PC for a while, then moved to Windows 10 with the next PC I built, which actually broke on me even sooner. - And by breaking, I mean actually just not booting anymore and being unfixable, no matter what method I tried. - It wasn't the hardware either, because I tested the hardware and found no problems, then I switched to a Linux-distro and that kept running since like late 2022 now as well. - Ironic thing is, you can "break" Linux-distros fairly easily, but then, it won't stop running, while Windows can take a beating and you won't break it, until it does, but then also just grinds to a halt and won't work again. - It just feels unreliable because of it. So that, plus the direction Microsoft has taken Windows over the last few years, made me leave it behind, and now I'll use ANY Linux-distro, especially now that, again, there are much more fleshed-out distros that are easy to just set up and go, and there are enough options in software for things like peripherals and things like that, stuff that wasn't around even a few years ago. - I mean, even stuff as simple as input-remapper, which has replaced the very proprietary Razer Synapse for my keypad that I use all the time. It's Windows-only and they refuse to support Linux (not the developers, actually, who claim to work on it in the background, with no release-window). - But input-remapper only released in late 2020, which is about a year after I built this very computer that I put Windows 10 on (yea, I was a late adopter), so I actually couldn't have dealt with Linux in a way as I really need that keypad. - As well as Proton of course, but we all know that.

I have to use Windows 11 at work. A recent update added some AI garbage to the task bar. It was at that moment that I swapped to Linux on my personal computer.

I was happy with Windows, but not with Microsoft. I made the switch, and I discovered that I was missing out on some really cool things. The shell language is far better, KDE Connect is really cool, application updates are way easier to do, and BTRFS snapshots are amazing. And for gaming, the launch options you can set for games in Steam are infinitely powerful because you can run bash commands, which you cannot do on in Steam on Windows (only command line flags supported by the game itself can be used). I was even able to get a game running in Bottles that would not run in Windows 10. The cherry on top was when I set a udev rule to double the polling rate on my USB PS4 controller, and it actually made games more responsive! People just don’t know what they’re missing out on. There is also the issue of hardware support frequently requiring some configuration, and some cheap-feeling or less functional UI design from some desktops. For the longest time, my impressions were that Linux users got what they paid for, and that they just settled with it. They don’t. They make the system theirs, and it often ends up being a superior experience.

I started with dos and Unix (University) then slackware Linux came along. Kept using Linux for server side application but since 1 year also desktop. Debian is so great.

I like Linux and tried using it primarily for coding via dual boot, it was a great experience, I had MS Edge, vs code and VLC, but over time I moved all my development back to Windows cause I could still code and do more cause I don't only code, I also do graphics with illustrator, use visual studio ... it sometimes feels like Windows does a lot more than any other OS, right now I go to Linux if I know ill only be coding or customizing it and I do this a lot try a new distro, delete it get a =nother one, try to make my own and in the end windows is my most stable OS on the laptop, so I can't use Linux as my main OS on a PC for a long time cause ill break it at some point when I'm bored of how it functions or looks but with windows I've learned that customizing a lot is almost useless as performance suffers.

Truer words has never been spoken.I switched because my Windows install would just blue screen every now and then, comes to Linux and it has never had a crash.

I can speak to this. I had a computer I could not keep under a 2 minute boot time, even after a clean install. It didn't make any sense and too many instability issues. Switched to Linux, it was all solved immediately. Won't say there wasnt a learning curve, but I would never look back. I'd rather just stop using computer altogether if I had to use Windows again.

Yup. Totally agree with ya.

I love Linux. I used it exclusively in the early 2000s for several years. Unfortunately, I just got so frustrated with it. Even though I'm a software engineer, some of the issues I encountered were just baffling. I ended up going back to Windows just so I could get anything done. I keep checking in with Linux, but I keep finding that the same issues I had twentyish years ago are still there, making it difficult for me to go back, despite my wanting to.

Spoon true!! Windows was constantly taking up 100% of my ssd usage and there was NO answer on the Web. So I then literally spent a week with 4 reinstalls of fedora to install nvidia gpu drivers lol

First time I tried linux 10-12 years ago because many people around used it. Last 2 years I started again just because it was boring to use PC with W10. I was using OS just to launch the browser. I definetly can say I succeeded, now with random crashes I feel like good old days of windows 98, LOL. (yes, I anticipate stones into me)

Can absolutely confirm this. Linux might seem kind of snobby to people but I was just sitting around hating windows and not wanting to buy a Mac (even tho I like it) and realized I had already done most of the work. I was already primed to love Linux and I never looked back

Yup. Basically the reason I switched. I still have to use windows for school sometimes and it is so bloated, and filled with garbage I don't care about. And the lack of a competent package manager is something I really miss, it is honestly leagues above downloading installers or worse, using ms store.

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I've been wanting to move to Linux for years and I even built a new PC all AMD specifically for this and in the end I crawl back to Windows, always for the same reason. I cannot find good software that drives my hardware as well. I might be lacking in knowledge in some area, Linux config mostly, but I need something for fan control for example, not command line I mean software with a GUI. Sure I could deep dive the documentation of some 3rd party tools but I do not want to spend time on this, and board/harware manucfacturers do not provide proper software on Linux, I blame them. Some are bloatware sure but if you pick carefully, you can get decent first party GUI to tune your hardware to your taste. It's a shame the entry bar is still high if you want to power manage your hardware but do not want to go through command line interface or config files.

It wasn't even Windows that hacked me off -- it was Microsoft. The OS worked for me but the increasing experience of feeling it wasn't something I owned, that MS was controlling something I rented from them -- *that* is what led me to Linux.

I think it was Windows reinstalling something for the up teenth time that I got rid off that set me on the path of generic league player trying to make the "okay cortana" work to dark arts practicing linux weeb. It started with sketchy powershell scripts to remove baked in software, to rain meter, all the way to 'fuck it we ball, it's worth the 1 fps improvement' lol

There is a slight nuance that has to be done here to accurately represent Linux users who switched like me: Windows doesn't make people love Linux because it's so bad that even Linux would be better at this point, people already love the possibilities and freedom you can have on Linux, Windows just make them switch by not managing to stay a viable and good enough platform to continue using, by giving them the necessary push to be able to change your entire OS and adapt to Linux (or MacOS, for that matter). Because I think Windows could've became the best operating system period (yes, while still being proprietary) because they already had everything back then, and arguably still have, but due to their corpo motivations and their complete disinterest of working in synergy with the community, it became the thing we now know and that will certainly continue to become worse and worse over time.

Made the full switch today,.. turns out I need to update the firmware in my Xbox controller.... Which I need windows to do... Here's to learning how to set up a VM tomorrow lol

What drove me to Linux was windows updates changing all my settings back and re-adding things I removed and the driver timeouts all the time in games and it run sluggish ...Linux all my games run and run better for the most part, and just runs like 80% faster than windows. Also I was reading up on what windows 12 would be... half online all the time fill with Ai.

This is 100% what I did. I got incredibly sick of a bunch of stuff with windows 11 and upon hearing that proton existed and actually worked pretty well I figured I may as well give Linux a go.

Windows upgrade system takes long time and few rebooting computer. Linux is only one command in terminal or one click on gui.

Anyone can disagree with me on this, but Windows 10 was up there with XP and 7 in terms of performance. When you clicked on apps, they WOULD WORK! The File Explorer had many more options just within the ribbon, Office would work, and everything in general was more better (excluding the automatic updates, which was fixed in later patches). Even the way it looked was better, Acrylic, which used blurred backgrounds and turned your cursor into a flashlight, making everything around it "illuminate." Then 11 came. Just a huge let down, Microsoft promised all of this stuff, and gave us NOTHING! Mica looked like Fisher-Price, and the new Bloom wallpaper was (still is) getting on my nerves. The worst part about it all? Not the features. Not the look. The REMOVING OF FEATURES THAT ARE USEFUL! (Such as the removal of the feature where you could move the taskbar anywhere.) Not with Linux. What really surprised me about Linux was the way you could design, not just simple wallpapers, BUT THE WHOLE ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM. Buttons, panes, shadows, apps, anything you can name, Linux could probably customize... Jesse Jones' 5 Rules about Operating Systems (disagree if you like): 1. It HAS to run on Unix, otherwise its absolute sh*t. 2. It HAS to work. When I click on any app, it should work, not stall for 3 minutes... 3. It HAS to be secure, with antivirus capabilities inside the OS source code! Not like Windows, where I have to install 3rd party antivirus software like McAfee or Webroot (expires often, you have to renew it) 4. It HAS to be a file-centric OS, not a bloatware-centric OS. Be like how Amiga was with their Amiga Workbench or how macOS is. File-centric, meaning that it cares about saved or created files and the Internet, instead of bloatware-centric OS, which has Candy Crush or "Dropbox promotion" slowing it down. 5. Finally, It HAS to look beautiful, it cannot look like a kids toy, or have "half translucent effects which take pieces off of your wallpaper." How stupid is that? Microsoft devs need to look at Hilel Cooperman's explanation of Longhorn Milestone Five in 2003. Translucent only when the user has it small, then when the user makes it big, go back to the old non translucent ways. Also look at how Aero and Acrylic were. This was even written on a Kindle Fire 8 (10th Gen), running Fire OS 8...sorry Microsoft and Apple fans, it happens to run ON the GNU/Linux or Linux kernel (however you would like to call it). 😂

i have question im newbie on Linux but Pro on windows, i tried Manjaro, Linux Mint, Zoirn-OS, Deep-in Linux, Makulu-Linux, Personally im in love with Mint, due to some reason to work on Windows 11, i never tried them again just for two month, now i want really want to Linux Only for my personal and work use. can you suggest me which one is best for me because my work is posting PC games on my personal website only. i also want secure environment, no leakage of my User-Password etc after work in free time just Browsing and watch Movies. you can suggest me any Linux Distro Fedora, Ubuntu whatever you think best for me. My laptop Specification are.. Intel 8th Gen Processor. 16GB RAM, and Hard drive..512Gb NVME.

I started Linux because it was cool, fully switched because Windows kept killing me and i don't play enough things that don't/can't work on Linux. And I get to keep justifying it because a side effect my systems usability and available tools for that i do generally improved.

Can you review cachyOS

Agreed. Linux isn't attractive to me. But I'm not going to go to a Mac so.... What now? Well, one's actively making me angry and the other is intermittently making me angry.

Yeah, while I was interested in Linux before, Windows did the most effort for my transition.

For me that's absolutely true. I've used linux for a long time (since the late 90's) because i've also always liked the OS itself but always dualbooted with Windows due to games and windows being not too bad up until Windows 10. That OS was already getting on my nerve but Windows 11 was the last straw and the introduction of dxvk and proton made the decision to ditch windows forever a no brainer since now all my games work in linux as well. I now only use windows at work (i work in IT) and man, do i hate it with a passion. Its inconsistent, slow and the UI is all over the place. Even simple tasks like setting up a printer takes way too much time and effort for the small task it should be and with forced updates and constant changes it becomes harder and harder to manage as well.

You are right

The question nobody asks or at least I've never seen being asked...or talked about is... How many people leave Linux and switch over to windows 😅😅😅

Yup + temeletry + bloat

I'll install Linux the day it's as easy to install and setup as Windows itself. By this i mean the required amount of of clicks and effort to install and set the needed games/programs as well as we would do for Windows. Even then i would doubt Linux because of compatibility for retro games. (Unless it allows for virtual machines).

I started dabbling in Linux because I enjoyed it in college. I probably would eventually have moved over to it near completely based on simple enjoyment. Windows pissing me off did hasten the process and does handily prevent me from seriously looking back.

for me it was not gonna pay €100 & ah it looks very easy to install

true. But after experiencing the linux community and linux breaking 5+ times in a month - there's no point in switching if you expect you'll find anything stable/useful online. If it becomes more popular and easily accessible then you can switch, but still keep your windows copy safe because linux will break no matter if you install it with next, next or if you think you know how to install it and do it manually.

I moved to Linux over 15 years ago because of the demon, 'Blue Screen'. After a couple of years even my partner got fed up with the same 'Blue Screen' and demanded I put Linux on her PC and she's never looked back and even refuses to use Windows, even though it's dual boot.

I was sick of Microsoft's bs, plus after a YT rabbit hole during covid that sowed the seeds of my linux journey a couple of years ago i hopped straight to Linux for my new builds and once the warranty goes out on my laptops

I don't have any proof of this but based on things I've read online the death of windows 10 will likely drive some people to linux for various reasons. Whether you are concerned about privacy or have older hardware, windows 11 has cause fairly big issues for some users.

That exactly what has happened to me. :D

LOL Titus You are right 100%

want to try linux but everything not work in linux😢 like windows do

I always wanted to try linux because "cool hacker OS", better privacy etc but meh, i liked Windows... until 10 came along. I ended up on Arch as my main OS and Windows 10 on dual boot when needed.

I loved Linux for years and wanted to switch, but it just didn't seem viable, especially in gaming. Now that Linux gaming is pretty solid, especially for the games I play, I'm finally making the transition. My anger at Windows has increased as I've been making the transition because I'm learning about all the stupid sh*t Microsoft puts into Windows that just makes things difficult or slower or worse, but that's because of my new experiences on Linux. I probably wouldn't have noticed it before.

Its really because windows is very unattractive like you've said. But i'm still sticking with it because I am primarily game and am running nvidia thus linux isn't there for me yet.

I'm linux for life.

As a window user. I see some really awesome shit on linux. But im basically Stockholmed right now. Windows is just familiar and i know it inside and out. Ya know?

To me, it's the fact that I know how my operating system works.

in reality, i don't want Linux, i just want a secure and private OS that supports the apps I want to run, but fxck that's not happening i guess. i just want to do stuff, not get spied on, and control what's on my machine, why the fxck is that too much to ask?! VR doesn't run properly on any linux distro(really doesn't help i have a wmr headset), multi-monitor barely works a lot of the time and breaks on a pretty regular basis(maybe this has been fixed but this happened regularly when i was daily driving linux for a few months a few years ago), trying to stream audio on discord when screen sharing is a pain(has to be discord because that's where people are), xbox controllers can't work natively and every controller i've tried to replace it with has been crap in comparison(wired 8bitdo constantly disconnects for some reason). I get there's workarounds for a lot of this crap, but i'm not dealing with that again everyday when i initially tried to daily drive linux. i want to get the fxck away from Windows, but linux is just not reliable or stable enough or even compatible for what I want to run on my system, i'm hoping the popularity of the steam deck or maybe steam os 3.0 might revitalize things. VR is the real game breaker though. i'm not spending a $1000 bucks on an index just so I could run VR sub-optimally on linux, especially with an index 2.0 potentially on the horizon (or not sigh). and it sucks because I really hate Windows, but i'm stuck with it because as much as I hate it, the OS isn't what matters, it's what apps it supports and how well. what's worse is even if i do end up switching to linux, i would have to probably use Arch, great! so I switch from one hostile OS to a differently hostile OS. you just can't win. right now all I can do is shutdown windows telemetry and BS as best I can.

exactly

This short video spits facts.

I just switched since i was pretty much with linux the more and more i used linux the more and more i got pissed off at windws and hated it untill i just deleted my windows partion and started using it in a vm

Freedom is the reason why i switched to linux. Endless possibilities, endless customization and tweaking

Windows Vista did the most to increase Apple's market share.

"linux' chances of working are 50/50, but you only get that 10% of time"(c)naked gun or something. windows worked fine for me for decades, updates are under control, telemetry is managable. however when they start arbitrary changing design, removing some needed features and settings and pushing some unwanted down your throat you gotta start thinking.

Screw you windows I'm moving to BSD

I switched because I want an operating system that works with me, rather than against me. Using Windows made me hate it with a burning passion and I couldn't take it anymore.

Yes indeed. If windows had been good and not awful I would still be there. I just want the machine to work and not bother me much.

being honest best chance of linux to succeed is inertia from Microsoft regarding windows. We just need more companies with products like the steam deck

I am the rare kind, I thought Linux's customizability and philosophy is super cool, but WIndows hasn't acted up for me much in my whole life Though Microsoft and every company moving to profile and collect info from people has made me kinda upset

Nothing contribute more to the growing of the Linux community than windows updates.

"people switch from Windows to Linux because Linux sucks less than Windows" - Titus

It was just time for me to move on

Windows turned me into a Linux-bian. :D

Left Windows because Linux was a part of my curriculum, stayed because I liked the software better. Then left Linux because I became a BSD neckbeard

I'm a bought 64gb of RAM and I'm going to use what I NEED kind of person. Windows can piss off.