Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
I choose linux because:
- Installing a programming language doesn’t require setting up a path, the package manager does it automatically.
- It’s 100x easier to be privacy on linux than on Windows or macOS.
- There’s no AI in the notepad app.
- It just works.
It’s open source and not owned by an evil corporation. It doesn’t have ads. It doesn’t mine my data and sell it to the highest bidder. It doesn’t have AI shoved in every nook and cranny. It’s much lighter to run. I can easily run it on a 10 year old laptop.
I think I can handle the ads part, but the ‘lighter’ part, thats a good one.
Originally because fuck windows 10
Since then it’s the sheer joy of it all. It’s just fucking cool that a bunch of people just get together and make something that benefits everyone, with dozens of forks that allow for freedom of choice.
I got a new PC and was really upset at the idea of putting windows on it. The ad lack of ownership of my own hardware, I couldn’t do it, and so I installed Linux (again), but this time, it stuck.
Windows decided my perfectly functional PC couldn’t run 11, and Linux Mint has no issues running. I’m not getting rid of a perfectly good computer just because Microsoft wants me to. My husband has to use Windows for work and it seems like a huge pain in the ass. I’m not into fiddling with computers, and Linux is at the point now where it feels no more complicated than Windows (and often significantly less complicated).
I want to use open-source software, developed from people for people. I don’t want corporates to exploit my data and take away my freedom.
My values
IT worker, close to 50 years old, only ever could afford low-mid range tech, gamer. Been using windows for over 30 years and linux for 8. Linux works better than windows and it allowed me to improve my tech skills beyond a desktop machine.
I really like the control and malleability
Independent to the above, using windows feels really, really bad these days.
i like having a usable desktop and a nonblinking disk access led within 30 seconds, including bios and bootloader.
Privacy performance and fun
Same reason as with Google Android. These genocide supporting companies take the liberty to collect and sell my data, manage my hardware and frequently break core functionality with updates to push their slop on me, while adding ads to EVERYTHING. Most updates are not even about security. There is like a 100 reasons, really. I could sum it up as “annoying”.
Steam Deck made gaming on Linux possible and that was the only thing holding me to Windows. I had been using Windows since Windows 95.
Microsoft simply stopped making an OS and started making a subscription and content delivery platform. When they did that, they lost me as a customer.
Cus fuck microsoft/windows, thats why.
I just like a working, customizable PC that I’m in control of. KDE Plasma Desktop is everything Windows should have been, and it’s actually for me to control, it’s free, and it doesn’t push BS on me. Fedora btw
This.
