Hakuna matata :) no need to get riled up. Use what you want, I use Linux and macOS at home and windows at work.

Lying is bad.

illumos or maybe plan9front are good options if you have somewhat limited requirements

BSD?

I'm completely with you and I daily drive Linux. It's not just Lemmy, there is a vocal majority I've anecdotally seen that have this thing to push Linux onto everyone.

I used to be the same, until a friend I was pestering outright told me that it was ruining our friendship and Linux does not fit his needs, and it's not something he's open to.

Ever since, I've taken the approach of just never bringing it up and while I'll happily answer questions, I accept people still need Windows and aren't ready for such a sudden switch, because contrary to what that vocal majority says, it is a completely different environment for normies and takes a lot of mental energy and adjustment to get used to an entirely different system, even if the interface is near identical.

Side note: having this vocal majority seems to be a thing I've also seen in other vegans, surely there's a term coined for this phenomenon because it's certainly not limited to Linux users.