About 15 years ago I gave Linux a try, liked it and showed it to my wife who is less technical than me. She said she found it nicer than windows so I put it in the common computer and never looked back.

You can find as many excuses not to use Linux as I can give you reasons and solutions to try it... at the end of the day, try it, don't try it, it's your decision and you get to live with the consequences of those decisions. Me evangelizing about Linux is just as painful as hearing Window users complain about it yet unwilling to do anything but whine about it

If you do give it a try and have an issue, there are plenty places to get help for Linux better than the MS forums, this is undeniable.

Also, notice Windows is like bumper cars while Linux is like the entire vehicle fleet of the world, you want to drive a tank, you got it... wanna drive a super car, got it... wanna drive a hot air balloon that moves on good wishes, Linux has one distro just like that... you probably should not learn to drive in a Ferrari when you are late for work, choose a beginner friendly distro and move on from there at your pace if you feel like it

I don't want Linus Torvald spying on me through my computer, either! /s

"I wish I wish upon a star for a multi billion dollar monopoly to self-regulate"

Everybody wants to complain about how bad things suck, and then just shrug and keep living with it.

Seriously, it sucks that Microsoft is an evil corporation spying on all Windows users. Nothing will change unless people start coming up with and using alternatives. This isn't some fairytale where government regulation works in our favor, either. The only vote we have that matters to corporations is the choice to give them our money and data.

Linux has a learning curve, and there are some things that are frustrating at first. None of those things are more frustrating than having your personal computer ruled by the robber baron Bill Gates. Just my two cents. I am very intelligent.

I am not particularly intelligent, nor particularly knowledgeable on the details on how OSes and kernels work. And I'm comfortably using Linux. One more reason why more people should.

But I agree that it would be very nice if legislation was finally passed to prohibit that spyware bullcrap most of the big players have trying to force down our throats.

As someone who considers themselves a "Linux-evangelist" and has run it exclusively on my devices for years, I really despise that the goto method for recruiting others is to shit on other OSs and claim that Linux beats them all. Whilst you're not wrong and all your arguments are true, nobody wants to listen to that.

The most succesful campaigns I have seen has been to gently introduce people to Linux and let them play around with it. Alot of people really just liked it, but where more open to adopt since they arrived at the conclusion on their own, instead of being force-fed it.

I use arch btw

I would switch to Linux in a heartbeat if it ran all the programs I use. And yes, I know about wine, but it's still not all there yet. Thankfully there are more and more programs I use that now run natively in Linux, so I still have hope.

There’s barely anything you “need” Windows for anymore. Especially as something like 99% of most people’s PC usage is web (including cloud-hosted Office type apps).

Doc, it hurts when I do this...

I mean, there are only two three realistic options (four if you are that one BSD user):

• Either you use Windows and let Microsoft spy on you (or rely on unbloating scripts which might eventually break your OS and not even block all Microsoft spyware in the first place);

• You buy overpriced Mac computer, that might also spy on you, who knows;

• You use Linux.

As a Linux user, I don't really get it? What is the term supposed to signify? Why is the Linux dude in a well? I have so many questions

I mean, tbf, your other option is a violent takeover of the Microsoft corporation, complete with rifles and grenades and stuff, so like, by comparison "fucking install mint or fedora ffs" sounds a lot easier.

I mean yee I agree "microstof should just stop asshole," but good fucking luck with that..

They're the best, they're the worst. Like cuddling a hedgehog.

Who "won't" switch to Linux? Emigrating to Linux is just not as simple as these people believe.

Some of us have our entire lives on Windows that will take forever to migrate with all the obligations and the crushing weight of work that we have to handle in our day to day life.

How society would thrive if we had true freedom.

Software and games.

No matter some people claims, there are always software/games that simply won't run on Linux or no alternative available.

For me, it's simple, it's gaming. As soon as I can run competitive online games on Linux, I'll switch fully. Meanwhile, my non gaming computer runs Linux, but my gaming rig runs Windows.

Fair enough, but most solutions to restrict data gathering by windows are often worked around by Microsoft via eventual windows updates which is a perpetual risk. In my experience, using Linux is less of a headache in the long run.

I am the smug well guy in this picture. You can complain and whine about Microsoft's shitty practices to people who have no way of effecting them..oooorr you can use a different OS. Kind of a "better to light a candle than to curse the darkness" deal.