Can someone honestly explain why people use Linux as their main OS? Is it just brokies and jeets who don’t want to pay for Windows, or do some folks actually enjoy spending their weekends fixing Wi-Fi and audio drivers? Every time I see a Linux user, they’re either flexing their terminal skills or raging at game devs because nothing works out of the box.

Is the real appeal just feeling smarter than everyone else, or is there actually something I’m missing here?

>>106164135 (OP)
Just schizos thinking their data is being harvested and gangstalked, and autists who need to feel special

You have to ask the fundamental question: Why does someone have a computer? What is the point of using a computer?

People will have wildly different answers, and those answers will be much different from yours when it comes to Linux users.

>>106164135 (OP)
bait thread #881746

OP is stuck in 2015.

>>106164135 (OP)
Linux is fun. And some people like the idea that they own the software on their computer and control how it's being used at every level versus having it managed for them.
I've got nothing against Windows. I use both, it boils down to using the right tool for the job. But when you really grasp what Linux is it's quite special even if it can't run all the software Windows does. In fact, the fact that it runs *any* Windows software at all (given that binaries are created to work with specific APIs that exist on certain platforms and Windows is closed source) is a testament to the ingenuity behind its ecosystem.

>>106164135 (OP)
there are exactly zero (0) supercomputers built on the windows operating system

Can someone honestly explain why people use Windows as their main OS? Is it just boomers and office drones who are scared by a terminal, or do some folks actually enjoy spending their weekends restoring settings that got reverted by updates and fiddling with regedit? Every time I see a Windows user, they’re either flexing their excel skills or raging at server admins because nothing works out of the box.

Is the real appeal just feeling smarter than everyone else, or is there actually something I’m missing here?

>>106164135 (OP)
>spending their weekends fixing Wi-Fi and audio drivers?
Never had to do that
>raging at game devs because nothing works out of the box.
The games I care about work with no issue
>feeling smarter than everyone else
Modern linux DEs are piss easy to use and using them is not a flex.

>>106164135 (OP)
>Can someone honestly explain why people use Linux as their main OS?
It just works.
I turn off updates and it even stays the same.
But I don't.

It's funny, the system, which doesn't allow you to turn off updates, is one you don't want any updates from, whereas the system that allows you to turn them off, is the one you want updates from.

I think normies are finally moving out of the dark ages and beginning to understand that a computer can even have different operating systems or that you can use different operating systems to complete the same tasks.

>Yay, Linux!
It's actually quite beautiful, when you think about it, there's even a Faustian quality to hard- and software cycles, pertaining to freezing the moment in time.

>>106164135 (OP)
>honestly explain why people use Linux as their main OS?
Simple: Hardware is not compatible anymore with Windows 7, Windows 10 and 11 are terrible, I am not a homosexual so I don't use MacOS.