people are surprisingly opinionated about it.

Getting repeatedly burned by soulless multibillion dollar comanies tends to do that to a person.

I think there’s plenty of non-Linux people here, you just don’t notice them because they have interesting things to talk about instead of their OS testing hobby.

I use everything.

Windows 10 still on my main desktop, although there is a Zorin nvme setup inside, just need to make the final change. Got a 3070 rtx a few years ago I barely get to use.

Windows server 2022 for my DNS/pinhole setup

Windows 10 LTSC for my seeding/downloading

Zorin on my main laptop

Zorin on my kids old renewed 12" MacBook air.

Windows 11 on my kids desktop with a local account. (he’s my guinea pig)

I just used opencore legacy patcher to put sanoma on a 2012 27" iMac that was meant to be recycled. Just ordered kit to take it apart and upgrade the hdd since it’s slow as fuck.

I have bazzite on an old Lenovo gaming laptop

Windows 11 for work

Husband uses genuine MacBook pro from 2016 or so

Truenas scale for my home file server and Plex media. Old secondhand AMD ryzen 7 3700x and as much ram I could find from recycling old devices. 4x 20TB drives I bought refurb in 2024 when I rebuilt it all, had had this thing almost 20 years, just upgrading as needed

Truenas scale (second) for my backups with Veeam, secondhand AMD ryzen 5 4500 and 32G recycled RAM.

Proxmox server for testing fun things.

I love dabbling in everything and keeping old hardware alive. Nearly all my hardware is from clients that needed their devices wiped and recycled. I destroy their data and save what I can for fun/education. Things that are just too old or unreliable or unsupported for businesses are great.

I wipe and reload many I can’t use, give them away. I think that’s all my stuff.

I’ve used all three OS, and I flat out prefer windows. I realize it’s a minority opinion here and that’s fine. People can use whatever OS works for them and as long as they are happy, good on them.

Mac for personal, Linux for work. Been that way for over 20 years. They tried to force us to switch to new windows machines (we’re a linux shop) and i said i’d quit first. They tried to sell the WSL crap… i showed them how my 8 yr old machine ran circles around their new windows laptop. I’m still running linux. Every ounce of my being hates windows. Mac just works. Linux (for me) just works. Linux can be a bit fiddly at times. But once it’s working, it just works.

Work: windows laptop. It’s fine.

Home: dual-boot. More windows time than Linux generally (I’m almost afraid to “admit” that on this forum, ha)

I don’t have a computer - I just use my phone for Samsung Dex and my tablet (which I think might actually be Linux-based or something. I’m a tech noob).

Otherwise, Windows for work.

I’m a windows and Mac user.

And Linux too, but mostly for servers only.

Personal and work laptops are Macs. I’m also playing around with a Linux Mini PC as a potential future homelab but I’m already thinking why not get a used Mac mini that will be less of a bother.

Planning to get a small gaming PC with a ready to use Linux on it though, like the Steam Machine. Windows can suck my ass.

Ok so I don’t have any MAC machines and my primary daily driver for the past 10yrs has been Linux.

I’ve only got one Windows 10 MS Surface Pro laptop and I have to say that my Windows 10 Pro is unlike everyone else’s because I know exactly what to turn off and what to rename safely.

I prefer Linux but I don’t evangelise. Use what gets the job done the quickest.

My work laptop is running Win11

I’ve self hosted for a while but never used linux desktop. Just this week I just set up dual boot on my laptop with the intention of using it 90% Linux 10% windows 10. Its been great so far & I’m enjoying the learning curve finding alternatives to what I’m used to (some of which I’m sure I can’t run on Linux - Traktor & several other more obscure things). Lots to learn but good fun & the lack of AI horseshit plus the OS not spying feels liberating.

The very first software I installed (Brave) recommended to use terminal which didn’t bother me in the slightest but it may be intimidating/offputting for mainstream.

I use windows 11 at work & at a friends who needed help. It’s absolutely loathsome, everytime I open anything there’s stupid irritating notifications & popups getting in the way when it tries to “help". Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows in our house

Oh yeah I’m still using Win10 because tbh I’m too lazy to get into linux

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