I’m done with Windows myself. The only time I ever touch it is for work when I gave to deal with some of our VMs for Photoshop users
I use all three. I have Windows on one of my machines that I use occasionally for gaming. I use Macs for work since that’s what all my corporate machines comes with and I daily drive Linux and use it for all my home servers.
Nothing really. You pay with your time by going to Linux but the effort is getting lower both because of me getting better but mostly the experience won’t compare with 20 yeara ago.since the non FOSS alternatives are getting more telemtry/call home functions rhe choice is an easy one.
Nothing.
templeos
very daily drivable!!
I wish Linux had Powertoys Fancy Zones
Splits my Ultrawide into several customised sections that I can snap Windows to.
As I’m dragging a window I simultaneously right click and a bunch of zones appear that I can snap it to.
I have an Ultrawide and a portrait 1440p that are split vertically and horizontally respectively.
Basically KDEs tiling
Holy shit. This is what I needed. Thank you, thank you!
Yup
I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don’t need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.
Have to agree. I’ve been using linux for ~20 years. Tried using it multiple times as a desktop main system. Sometimes it took a few days, sometimes a few months but I always ended up back at windows (now macos). It’s always something random. Something that should work, but is not. Something I could (given time) fix if I wanted to. The problem is that these tend to happen at times I want to actually use my computer and not tinker around. I have linux running on multiple servers perfectly fine, but on desktop it’s a hard pass for me.
I never “switched”. I just started using the right tool for the job. I use Linux for productivity stuff. Windows for gaming and audio/music production, mostly. I don’t own a Mac anymore but if I did, it’d probably be their laptops, and I’d probably take over some of the development and creative work while on the go. I’m admittedly not very “religious” when it comes to the software I use. Whatever works best for me. I’m not married to anything. Makes it easier to switch things out down the line.
What makes you not want to use Linux anymore
Your question is malformed because even the odd troubles of Linux these days are absolutely nothing compared to the hoops I used to go through to try to get a Kernel built for my hardware 25 years ago. The occasional non-working speaker or other config issue is tiny. It doesn’t even register as a problem.
Compare that to the shit show that is Windows? Fuck that OS. I try not to be very vocal when I meet people about it, but Windows just won’t be a choice for me. I’ve turned down jobs because it would move me to a Windows house for tools. It’s not worth living in that kind of hellhole UI design and wrestling with whatever enshittification MSFT has driven down your crop with the latest updates. I have a life to live and wrestling with my OS isn’t what I’m going to spend it doing.
I don’t know much about the current MacOS environment these days. I stopped in the OSX 10.4 days. I just don’t have the hardware to consider it, so no real opinion.
So… your question is malformed because it’s not even worth considering and I’ve got a quarter century of experience to back that one up.
The fucking GTK file chooser. It’s like all application developers have made a pact with each other to never use a consistent UX, with the exception of having to press ctrl-L to edit the path textbox. It’s painful. And as much as I like XDP, support for it is spotty at best, and sometimes downright broken.
I mean, who the FUCK puts the filesystem root in a submenu? Or sorts files and directories together? I just want to talk and explain why they’re beyond salvation.
I searched around for a bit, and apparently one could preload a library to replace the file dialog functions with an own, custom one, and I’d root for rofi (with a dmenu theme, kinda).
Nothing. I have used Linux since it was on the alphabet floppies.
Bro, i upgraded to 64 bit.
Nothing. GNU/Linux is fantastic. But only that but the principles of Free Software are literally the most important thing to happen in computing. Respecting user freedom is THE most important thing an OS can do.
Only Linux offers that. In using this forever.
I have a small, high DPI, laptop screen (<14") and I haven’t been able to get all or even most of the software I use to scale properly. It always looks weird and eye strain is a real worry for me, so until this problem is solved I’ll be a casual
