Pretty much every one in tech at my company has switched from a Windows OS to Linux or Mac in the last year. Almost no one who knows that there is a working alternative is choosing to use Windows in their personal life.
I switched after 30+years on Windows/DOS. I got my mom to switch, one (or two) of my brothers have switched, my little niece’s first computer is running Linux. In the span of a year, my family went from 100% windows machines to about 70%. Hell I got my friend in another state to switch to linux, and he’s really running with it. Microsoft has a lot of momentum, they can endure these losses by relying on their business platform, but unless they commit to making a clean, light, privacy-focused, secure and stable OS, we will probably see the last Windows in the next decade.
They seem to have forgotten that businesses and home users want mainly the same things - stability, ease of use, common sense settings. Business users also want network management tools, but a lot of home users do, too. The problem is, no one is getting what they want with Win11. I don’t know how Microsoft thinks that’s going to end, but I only have one home computer that uses Windows anymore, and I’m switching it to Linux soon. It’s Win10, so it isn’t terrible, and I both can’t and don’t want to upgrade it, but I have a year before security updates stop. I also plan on getting another computer or two into my home in the near future for self-hosting, and I’m not considering Windows for them, either.
Me too. I had a custom gaming computer, but windows didn’t support it for windows 11. It took me awhile to find the right distro. I dealt with the same thing on the Linux side with people telling me I just had to replace all my hardware for Linux compatibility. Finally found CachyOS and it’s been one of the first times everything just worked on my computer.
I had already switched, I just nuked my old windows partition that I was keeping around for literally one program. Then I got some standalone DJ decks, and the program to export MP3/WAV/OGG/FLACC to work with them only runs on windows, so I got a win10 m$ surface 5 for £30 and it’s only jobs are to format stuff for the decks, read totally legally sourced manga, and practice hiragana/katana/kanji.
And… honestly? I’ve got my whole music library formatted and transferred to a usb for the decks… probably going to wipe it and install Nobara or something with the Surface Kernel Patch preloaded…
I switched to Linux. :3
Linux Mint gets the job done and I needn’t anything else. Long live the penguin!!
Samesies :3
Pretty much every one in tech at my company has switched from a Windows OS to Linux or Mac in the last year. Almost no one who knows that there is a working alternative is choosing to use Windows in their personal life.
I switched after 30+years on Windows/DOS. I got my mom to switch, one (or two) of my brothers have switched, my little niece’s first computer is running Linux. In the span of a year, my family went from 100% windows machines to about 70%. Hell I got my friend in another state to switch to linux, and he’s really running with it. Microsoft has a lot of momentum, they can endure these losses by relying on their business platform, but unless they commit to making a clean, light, privacy-focused, secure and stable OS, we will probably see the last Windows in the next decade.
They seem to have forgotten that businesses and home users want mainly the same things - stability, ease of use, common sense settings. Business users also want network management tools, but a lot of home users do, too. The problem is, no one is getting what they want with Win11. I don’t know how Microsoft thinks that’s going to end, but I only have one home computer that uses Windows anymore, and I’m switching it to Linux soon. It’s Win10, so it isn’t terrible, and I both can’t and don’t want to upgrade it, but I have a year before security updates stop. I also plan on getting another computer or two into my home in the near future for self-hosting, and I’m not considering Windows for them, either.
Me too. I had a custom gaming computer, but windows didn’t support it for windows 11. It took me awhile to find the right distro. I dealt with the same thing on the Linux side with people telling me I just had to replace all my hardware for Linux compatibility. Finally found CachyOS and it’s been one of the first times everything just worked on my computer.
One of us, one of us!!!
I had already switched, I just nuked my old windows partition that I was keeping around for literally one program. Then I got some standalone DJ decks, and the program to export MP3/WAV/OGG/FLACC to work with them only runs on windows, so I got a win10 m$ surface 5 for £30 and it’s only jobs are to format stuff for the decks, read totally legally sourced manga, and practice hiragana/katana/kanji.
And… honestly? I’ve got my whole music library formatted and transferred to a usb for the decks… probably going to wipe it and install Nobara or something with the Surface Kernel Patch preloaded…