Not just reverse psychology, I can't imagine anyone agreeing with most of these. It's definitely got a holier-than-thou attitude. Like who is this even written for other than people who already use Linux and just want to feel smugly superior?

actual reasons:

1. want to use some specific program or game only available for another os
2. lazy, dumb or afraid of computer stuff.
3. can’t decide from 10,000 different distributions

No, because at least with masturbation, you have something to show for it at the end.

No that's exercise

Well said

Your points are valid, and if I saw this on a site like pcmag, medium or whatever, i would totally be on the same page. Still, how many "on the fence" people are likely to be here, on Lemmy, subscribed to a linux forum?

I chose to take it as snarky humor for the "in crowd". Benefit: keeps my blood pressure manageable.

Indeed

Maybe this was true then, but my microwave never once knew what time it is

I mean, #6 is accurate for me. I don't have a humiliation fetish, so I'd rather pay people to tell me what I'm doing wrong instead of braving the barrage of belittlement that comes from asking for crowdsourced support.

You expected better from itsFoss? It has always been this way and it will always be

Shh we're trying to circlejerk here! Keep your voice of reason down and grab some lotion

Nah, that still feels like too much freedom. What if I get lost?

Yeah, I read this as: YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID, I AM MUCH BETTER THAN YOU

That is really a good way to communicate.

Yeah no its cos it breaks all the time.

I've had Fedora encourage me to reboot, but I don't think I've ever had it do so without consent (excluding when my laptop battery died).

I've been running Fedora for a few weeks and if I update it every time there's updates available, I'd be rebooting nearly daily, because it insists on rebooting for "system packages", where debian and even Arch based distros did not require restarts for most things.. I'm not even using an immutable version of Fedora

... On the desktop. It's de rigeur for servers.

If you have a job

Where you work remotely on your own computer connecting to a corporate network.

That doesn't affect most of us with jobs...

Its a choice on Linux.

i mean maybe some distros will add something, i don't know. and i don't care because i don't have to. shit like that is deinstalled faster than an llm can print an emdash.

Most of these points are fair, but.. wine is not an emulator!

The monitor thing is very dependent on distro, I didn't really have any issues at all with Linux mint or nobara

As others have said wine/proton is not an emulator and some games run even better on Linux, that being said a lot of AAA games have DRM that prevent you from running them on Linux, that would be your real argument there

Don't like being able to share software? A ton of software on Linux is FOSS and available on windows, not all of it of course, but you could say the same about Mac

Depending on the corporation and software, you can use Linux, but yes, most places are windows shops, so that is difficult

But yeah,a computer that just "works" I concede most distros will not get you there. Nobara is definitely a bit unstable but I can deal with it because I was in IT for 6 years. Although immutable distros are close, but they definitely still take some knowhow to use, and have their limitations

Edit: misread part of the comment

A computer that "just works" nowadays is an android phone, windows has so much broken due to them replacing devs with AI that you can't justify that as a reason nowadays.

I don't understand the first two.

16: I've had more headaches getting multiple monitors to work in Windows than I ever have in Linux. Try connecting 2 monitors of wildly different resolutions in Windows and witness the abject failure of windows to handle that elegantly. Your mouse can slip off into a "void" where no monitor exists, and yet your content can just disappear to, dragging the mouse between monitors slips the cursor way off and to the right, screenshots are a mess, etc. etc.

17: I only play games in Linux and I never use emulators... unless it's for things like SNES.

18: I don't know what you're getting at with this one. Software is way more shareable in Linux. You just say "it's in your package manager" or "install this Flatpak". Windows and Mac on the other hand have half-assed app stores and a culture of "just go to ${URL} and click "download, ok, ok, ok" which inevitably leads to stuff breaking and no discernible way to determine what failed 'cause your machine is full of rando installations.

19: This is fair, though most high-profile stuff like CrowdStrike works for Linux now.

20: I cannot begin to tell you how much Windows and Mac don't work. Like, at all. Just today I spent an hour on a call with another developer stuck in Windows trying to get a JDBC driver to work. The constant ambiguous error messages, useless documentation directing you to "just go to ${RANDOM_SITE} and install some-cryptically-named-executable.msi that craps out with error messages about missing runtimes... the whole operating system is hot garbage and that's before you factor in the missing keyboard shortcuts, flaky monitor support, creeping AI, and ads shooting into your eyeballs. The only way Windows "Just Works™" is if you redefine "works" entirely.

#20 is what it is