Been trying it for years and it’s just a low-powered windows? I’m not sure what the benefit is. There’s no support, warrantees of any kind, no useful software packages, and everything I would use it for (development, browsing) has a better windows alternative? Sorry for the hate but enjoy your free stuff I guess
On the support side, there are enterprise distros (red hat) but the community support honestly is top notch. I know windows has support but I’ve never really needed it day-to-day or had a situation where having access to support on Linux really would have been helpful.
Development side - I find Linux outpaces windows for what I do, plus a number of tools are just built in. Plus Jetbrains IDEs are Java anyway and run fine there.
Browsing, i assume you mean the web? This is functionally identical.
I personally like Linux cause it’s tracker-free and more customizable. I prefer ZSH to power shell and I like that my desktop and server are running the same platform preventing strange bugs between environments.
There’s no support, warrantees of any kind, no useful software packages, and everything I would use it for (development, browsing) has a better windows alternative?
I mean… all of these things are just not true. Maybe they were at one time, but they certainly are not now. The amount of support available for Arch alone is staggering.
Also, maybe I’m wrong, but aren’t most software engineers/developers Linux users? Maybe ask some of them why they use it.
This is the most common knee-jerk response that I get from pedestrians. But. Using proprietary hardware in a relatively straightforward manner that allows you to run dedicated software to customize/handle the gear is why windows is better…
lol have you ever tried to use windows baked-in support or MS forums with “expert answers”?
And low-powered doesnt even make sense, there is less bloat and bing/copilot shit dragging the system down, my system on the exact same specs and drive boots into Linux in like 1/10 the time as windows.
As for useful software packages, services like Flatpak, snap, and deb are a breeze -and not being able to use enshittified adobe software instead of their now better free and open source alternatives is ridiculous - Linux on any distro is what most developers would prefer and browsing is exactly the same. Hell, even gaming which was peoples major “missing piece” has made leaps and bounds last year alone.
the word “Support” includes already-answered questions readily available on the internet, eg. stack overflow. There are no unanswered questions about using/developing with windows
Been trying it for years and it’s just a low-powered windows? I’m not sure what the benefit is. There’s no support, warrantees of any kind, no useful software packages, and everything I would use it for (development, browsing) has a better windows alternative? Sorry for the hate but enjoy your free stuff I guess
On the support side, there are enterprise distros (red hat) but the community support honestly is top notch. I know windows has support but I’ve never really needed it day-to-day or had a situation where having access to support on Linux really would have been helpful.
Development side - I find Linux outpaces windows for what I do, plus a number of tools are just built in. Plus Jetbrains IDEs are Java anyway and run fine there.
Browsing, i assume you mean the web? This is functionally identical.
I personally like Linux cause it’s tracker-free and more customizable. I prefer ZSH to power shell and I like that my desktop and server are running the same platform preventing strange bugs between environments.
sounds like an edge case tbh…
I mean… all of these things are just not true. Maybe they were at one time, but they certainly are not now. The amount of support available for Arch alone is staggering.
Also, maybe I’m wrong, but aren’t most software engineers/developers Linux users? Maybe ask some of them why they use it.
I’ve been in the industry for 10 years and have worked almost exclusively with windows (backend) and iOS (frontend) users
I’m actually intrigued because usually when people complain about lack of software on Linux, it’s gaming, productivity, or creative software.
All the big browsers and development tools are on Linux just as they are on macOS or Windows
This is the most common knee-jerk response that I get from pedestrians. But. Using proprietary hardware in a relatively straightforward manner that allows you to run dedicated software to customize/handle the gear is why windows is better…
lol have you ever tried to use windows baked-in support or MS forums with “expert answers”?
And low-powered doesnt even make sense, there is less bloat and bing/copilot shit dragging the system down, my system on the exact same specs and drive boots into Linux in like 1/10 the time as windows.
As for useful software packages, services like Flatpak, snap, and deb are a breeze -and not being able to use enshittified adobe software instead of their now better free and open source alternatives is ridiculous - Linux on any distro is what most developers would prefer and browsing is exactly the same. Hell, even gaming which was peoples major “missing piece” has made leaps and bounds last year alone.
the word “Support” includes already-answered questions readily available on the internet, eg. stack overflow. There are no unanswered questions about using/developing with windows