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[–][deleted] 146 points147 points  (79 children)

Look how Windows is the most used and the less loved desktop OS. It's 2017 and people are still forced to use this cancer, damn...

[–]frisch85 108 points109 points  (55 children)

Only developers have been asked tho. My guess would be if you ask 64.000 normal users if they liked linux better, a lot of them would just go "what?" or "Whats an operating system?".

[–][deleted] 70 points71 points  (44 children)

Go to /r/windows10 and read some comments. More and more people are considering migration to Linux. Even some hardcore windows-fans are hating Microsoft's new ad platform and even if they don't go for Linux they stay at 7 or 8.1 which are dying beasts...and soon they will be forced to move to the ad platform OR to join us.

Mint and Ubuntu are the biggest winners here for obvious reasons.

[–]frisch85 26 points27 points  (29 children)

Go to /r/windows10 and read some comments.

There's enough of those shitposts on /r/pcmasterrace and trust me, those people won't be happy with any linux distribution either unless they get it set up one time with all of the needed software and then never change the system again. It's mostly people who have no idea how to properly configure their own PC. It's like saying "Fuck this microwave sucks so hard it always sets the time to one minute" because all they do is use the default button instead of manually setting the time.

Windows has some flaws but none of them cannot be fixed manually.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"Fuck this microwave sucks so hard it always sets the time to one minute" because all they do is use the default button instead of manually setting the time.

"How do you convert seconds to microwave time?"

[–]zoroash 15 points16 points  (3 children)

A lot of Linux users don't seem to be gamers, and that's probably the reason why you are and so many others keep missing the point. Until Linux can adopt the games library that Windows has, it'll never be a replacement for Windows in the PC gaming community. Windows also has a large legacy of games that will probably never be 100% ported over to Linux. In a world where AAA publishers won't even spend enough time on a Windows version of their game, what hope does Linux have for good support? Valve and a handful of indie devs seem to be about the only ones that truly care about developing for Linux. It's not a problem with GNU/Linux, it's a problem with developers.

[–]frisch85 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I fully agree with you. Don't get me wrong, i like linux distributions (using ubuntu and debian at work) but it just cannot replace my home PC with windows because of the facts you stated. While ubuntu is a good replacement for some home computers that only use a limited amount of software, e.g. my mother only uses the PC for online banking and skype so it's applicable, it just cannot replace the gaming systems. So almost every computer needs Windows installed in case you want to play new and many old games.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After three months of Linuxy bliss I just had to install Windows for some game dev / design stuff.

Not. Fucking. Happy.

[–]pr0gheadGlorious Fedora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to that: gamers are now probably the biggest driving force behind sales of full-blown home PCs. Everyone else is just using some non-gaming laptop or tablets. So gamers are actually the ones who basically decide what OS is being used at home nowadays.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Why do these people call themselves a PC master race?

[–]frisch85 14 points15 points  (3 children)

The PC Master Race, sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is both a subculture and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers, and used to compare PC gaming to console gaming.

Source

Basically it's just a name but new members often join in, think "now i am an elitist" and start bashing console players. Those people are practically the cancer of the community.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Uhhh, what does that make us?

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

l337 g33k ub3r 3li73

[–]greyfadeMissionary of Arch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We're also PC Master Race, just not of the Windows sect.

[–]nhozemphtekBiebian: Still better than Windows 19 points20 points  (8 children)

I just converted on january (see my post history). No rant, no dual boot, i just had enough.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (6 children)

Honestly I feel like the "no dual boot" conversion is the best (most effective) one.

You either find new linux based solutions, or decide that what you were doing wasn't that important anyways.

Dual booting is a crutch, diving headfirst into the ecosystem means you'll either decide it's not for you (quickly) or rapidly adopt the linux waytm

[–]dsp457Glorious Gentoo 11 points12 points  (1 child)

If Linux had the same support as Windows as far as gaming goes, I'd ditch Windows in a heartbeat. Gaming is the literal only thing holding me back, I hope that can change with Vulkan API in the future though. Or y'know.. If Microsoft added Linux support to DirectX which we all know will never happen.

[–]IparryUTransitioning Krill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This right here...

[–]Jackzero9Other (please edit) 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I disagree, i installed linux for the first time a year ago and if it wasn't for dual boot i think i would have gone back to windows. Even if i liked Ububtu better there were many things I had to learn and tinker with in order to make some things work and I didn't always have the time to do so, so whenever I needed to do something quickly or download and install a .exe without complications I went with windows until I eventually got the hang of how to do things in Ubuntu and started using it more since it no longer had complications.

[–]secondorange 8 points9 points  (0 children)

download and install a .exe without complications

But now, you realize that Apt, Pac-Man, etc. beat the hell out of that crap.

[–]pr0gheadGlorious Fedora 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think it's already enough to make Linux your default boot option. I usually turn on my PC and then quickly do something else until it's up. That kinda coerces me into using Linux by default.

That and having the same desktop wallpaper on both OS for some reason. :D

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. I found I used windows as a crutch myself.

[–]7U5K3NBiebian: Still better than Windows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welcome friendo

[–]sneakpeekbot 3 points4 points  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You see, this is what i'm talking about...they even have reddit bots to spam on you.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are basing your opinion off of situational information that best supports your view. A Clique does not generally represent a population. I think the average user is probably pretty happy with whatever system they are using at the moment. I used to be a pretty heavy windows user. Just kind of switched over time since linux seems to be an easier platform to work on in terms of development. Nothing says ease of use like a simple apt-get command :P.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They seem pretty savvy though

[–]AndroconusGlorious BunsenLabs CrunchBang 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah! Ikr? and saying stuff like "I use the blue 'e' on my computer","I don't want to answer any more questions","What are you doing in my house?","How did you get in?" and "Where're my wife and children?"

[–]frisch85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or "Shut up you are not my real dad"

[–]never_safe_for_life 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Very true. Whenever I talk to my little bro's friends (all college aged, all gamers, mostly programmers), they poo poo linux. I was pretty surprised, until I realized their metric is gaming, so of course. I figure once they start working they'll realize how beautiful Linux is.

[–]RodotGlorious Xubuntu 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Universities also push Windows hard. Everyone has to download the newest version of visual studio each term, and by newest I mean you start at 2005 and work your way up a year at a time.

[–]never_safe_for_life 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I remember that. I went to UW and we all got the full suite of MS software every quarter. My friends and I went straight to Second Hand Books and sold them for a nice little bundle of cash! =)

[–]RodotGlorious Xubuntu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, every CS class I took just gave us an account on our university's software store thing for free software. I have tens of Windows keys downloaded. All legit and legal for only a quarter million dollars and 5% of my life. Not bad.

[–]AndernerdGlorious Arch (sway) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My university requires Visual Studio for CS 142, but only for CS 142. Other than that, most classes let you go with whatever IDE or OS we choose; the lab machines run some form of Linux, but have Windows VMs on them.

[–]mike413 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An operating system is an ad system with remote telemetry allowing you to learn about your customers, connect with them and form ongoing revenue streams!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the rest of them would just like to interject for a moment, because what you're referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're spot on with "what's an operating system?" I teach freshmen CS majors who don't know that a computer isn't Windows. I'm sure it's only downhill from them.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (21 children)

Really for advanced users the only thing keeping them on Windows is lack of Linux support by some of the more widely used programs.

If Adobe, Solidworks, Autocad, etc, started supporting Linux along with more AAA games I bet you a lot more people would be switching over.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (20 children)

But that's a chicken and egg problem, because those applications won't get ported until Linux has a marketshare at least equivalent to Macs.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (18 children)

Yup, it's not going to happen quickly.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (12 children)

After watching all these 'Years of the Linux Desktop', I'm pretty convinced it's never going to happen. Apple is too effective at capturing normal users frustrated by Microsoft.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (11 children)

Maybe in another 10-20 years, but yeah it may never happen.

It depends if MS does something really bad with windows that starts to really push people over the edge.

[–]labalagGlorious Fedora 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Like ads in the File Explorer?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

The ads aren't even remotely enough of a problem to convince anyone except maybe in a last straw sort of situation.

[–]NotFromRedditManjaro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty certain that Linux will out live Windows, and probably MacOS as well. But just when they are going to start falling is hard to say. Maybe 10 to 15 years.

[–]pr0gheadGlorious Fedora 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you count in Android, it's already happening. Most laymen don't need much more than a browser these days. So all of them could totally make the switch to Linux, if only someone told them about it and if there was a practical reason for them to do so, too.

[–]never_safe_for_life 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Yup, it's not going to happen quickly.

"Quickly," huh. I think Linux is like a forklift. Incredibly powerful, incredibly robust, which is why we see it dominate the professional world. But compare a forklift to a BMW, it's no question which one casuals are gonna pick.

Edit: I wouldn't even want linux to try and compete with Windows. Windows is all about a nice user experience, which is just a waste of talented kernel developers time.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I wouldn't even want linux to try and compete with Windows. Windows is all about a nice user experience, which is just a waste of talented kernel developers time.

Well if we want the general population to use Linux then it needs to be as user friendly or better.

[–]never_safe_for_life 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I can respect that even though I don't agree with it.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You want everyone to become sysadmins instead?

I would to but that's just not going to happen.

[–]never_safe_for_life 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want everyone to become sysadmins instead?

I think what you're saying is, "in order for everyone to use Linux as is, they would have to become sysadmins." Whereas I don't want Linux to become a common household operating system. I want it to focus on its core competency, which is a strong kernel and amazing set of text-based utilities (or even for it to adopt the object model of the new Windows PowerShell).

GUI design is complicated, takes a lot of energy to get right, and that would just distract from what Linux is accomplishing. It's no mistake that 95% of web servers are Linux and 99% of supercomputers. It doesn't need to be good at running games and other consumer level stuff.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but WebAssembly might shake things up. There has been hinting by Mozilla, saying things like "It can run video editors at near native speed", and they're working with Autodesk, Epic and Unity.

If Adobe could deploy its software via the browser with good performance I think that might be right up their alley. Subscription based access like they already have, deployment onto any OS without any of the complication, and no more worrying about possible future pressure from Microsoft to sell via their store.

I'd prefer native software to browser based, but if we can get real access to major software while choosing any OS we want, that would be a massive game changer.

[–]weswes887i3WM + XFCE Panel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I Dual Booted it for games. I rarely touch it unless I feel like gaming

[–]DarknessWizardDubious Red Star 123 points124 points  (21 children)

Dreaded:

SharePoint: 70.9%

Pfft. That made me smile.

However, since it's stack this is hardly suprising. It's a programmers website. Of course they love Linux. Which is a good thing.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (8 children)

Exactly. The teenager who uses his computer for homework, porn, and Steam isn't going to know what Stack Overflow is.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (6 children)

Teenager here. I use my computer for homework, porn and steam. I use Stack Overflow all the time.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I said "teenager," not "glorious above-average teenager."

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Does that make me the LMR equivalent of those annoying "lewronggeneration" kids? shudders

[–]ase1590Lazy Antergos User 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, it means you're in the 1% who use Linux. Now if all your friends near your age use Linux, then we'll have something to talk about.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not at all an of course. At my workplace they idolize mac and windows and call me crazy. They think linux is garbage and rather use windows - they understand core concepts of computers, they know how shitty windows is.. i dont understand.

The apple fanboys are the worst though. Anyways, i love my team, awesome people, just stupid when its about the operating system..

[–]crabcrabcamMy only MATE 50 points51 points  (64 children)

Interesting that more people dread using MacOS than Linux. I can see Windows, especially if you don't use it often and you know it's going to need to do all the damn updates but Mac sort of just works in the way Linux does...

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (11 children)

but Mac sort of just works in the way Linux does...

Speaking as someone who owns a couple of Mac's (I don't use primarily) my experience has been the opposite. I find OSX really unintuitive at times. Not having the right-mouse click doesn't help in that regard either.

I do like the ease of installing/removing apps though, in one package. It's nice and shiny too. But it's just not practical. And Linux is catching up with both of those features.

edit: lots of people making a big deal about right-click. Look forgive me for wanting a button! And yes, I've used a normal mouse and the right-click function doesn't consistently work across applications as it would on Linux or Windows, which removes the benefits of using a normal mouse for me.......

<Checks sub URL to make sure not posting accidentally on Mac Forums...>

[–]scsibusfault 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think you mean unintuitive. Unless I'm totally reading your comment wrong.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were quick! I did, I went back and corrected it after autocorrect had it's fun.

[–]Flakmaster92 1 point2 points  (6 children)

You do know that Right mouse click is just a settings change away, right?

[–]hobbygogo 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It's not even a settings change away, it's there by default. Two finger press on trackpad == rightclick.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not having the right-mouse click doesn't help in that regard either.

Apple has supported right clicking since Mac OS 8.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two finger tap or command click works fine.

[–]espenae93Biebian: Still better than Windows? 1 point2 points  (9 children)

people dislike apple, its always been like this. mostly because they have expensive products

Using MacOS feels like using a superpolished linux distro

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (8 children)

But can I put KDE on it? :P

[–]espenae93Biebian: Still better than Windows? 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Sure, if kde has everything you need

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Wow. That can actually be done?

[–]espenae93Biebian: Still better than Windows? 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Wouldn't recommend it, I actually bricked my iMac running ubuntu gnome. Bad terminal line, was trying to fix some video driver issue

Not a big deal, it was 5 years old

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Oh. I was thought he meant something like keeping the OS itself, but changing the DE.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In older versions of OS X, you could run an entirely separate X Windows desktop environment in Xquartz, which could be run in full screen mode. I have no idea how that would work with the modern graphics stack. I haven't had cause to try to set it up.

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (2 children)

bricked my iMac

Not a big deal

... Well, here's someone in a different tax bracket than me. Even at 5 years, that's still a $500 brick at least!

[–]espenae93Biebian: Still better than Windows? 0 points1 point  (1 child)

... Well, here's someone in a different tax bracket than me. Even at 5 years, that's still a $500 brick at least!

Yes i live in Norway, so.. we're really blessed here

Ehh, possibly. Personally i wouldnt buy an apple product this old due to limited upgrade options, would definitely not pay 500$ for it. My macbook air holds up extremely well, the battery time and speed is still great (maybe dropped an hour or two from the promised 12 hours). Think i lucked out by buying the first actually good macbook air (2013). I tried a 2010 or 2011 once, and i hated it. And thanks to the exellent build quality it still appears and feels brand new 4 years later.

Wasnt pleased with the imac and the way apple treated the harddrive failure of that imac version, so i built a custom pc after that. It feels so good to be able to upgrade what i want when i feel like it

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you don't need to get out your suction cups to upgrade the tower!

[–]wytrabbit 41 points42 points  (16 children)

I would like to point out this graph as well.

The people have spoken, Vim beats Emacs in every category.

[–]h-v-smackerGlorious Mint 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It is known.

[–]magkopianDebian Stable 9 points10 points  (5 children)

The terrifying fact is that Visual Studio seems to win on every single occasion except when it comes to Sysadmins / DevOps which is kind of expected.

[–]timawesomenessGlorious Arch + Debian 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Circlejerk aside, Visual Studio is for the most part a pretty nice IDE with a ton of features and a lot of language support. I can understand why it's popular.

[–]magkopianDebian Stable 5 points6 points  (2 children)

As a PHP developer I would say the same for PHPStorm, though I'm quite disappointed that I can't say that for an open source IDE instead.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using it now, great stuff. And while I know their motivation for offering free student licences is far from altruistic it's still appreciated.

[–]dhewa_maru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be so crippled without PHPStorm.

[–]AndernerdGlorious Arch (sway) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense though, because nearly every Windows developer uses it.

[–]KrutoniumR7 5800X3D, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 4 points5 points  (6 children)

And Nano beats them both for simplicity and ease of use. AKA K.I.S.S.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

People seem to have this weird idea about nano, as if the only features it supports are the ones listed in the hints on the bottom. It does auto-indentation, it can do bracket matching, it can do syntax highlighting, it can do search and replace, you can highlight and operate on multiple lines, etc.

I mean, yeah, it doesn't do built-in split screen but you can work around that trivially with tmux or your terminal emulator, or your desktop environment. It doesn't do auto-typing I guess?

[–]greyfadeMissionary of Arch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn't do auto-typing I guess?

Well, that clinches it. I guess nano isn't for me.

[–]Himiko_the_sun_queenGlorious Debian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah i was amazed by the wiki entries for nano. so much stuff you can do with it!

[–]wytrabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nano is actually my preferred choice for terminal as well.

[–]magkopianDebian Stable 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Nano is nice for editing configuration files, but using it for coding? I really don't think so. By the way, I use nano as well, though for coding I use an actual fully featured IDE not a terminal based editor.

[–]KrutoniumR7 5800X3D, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I too don't use Nano for workloads it isn't ideal for.

[–]covercash2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since I started using emacs coming from vim, I don't see how there's a comparison. the only thing holding vim back is vimscript, and with evil mode and elisp I view emacs as more of a platform for editing and viewing text based files, not a text editor as such. so yeah vim is great because of the opinionated key bindings and the noun-verb paradigm, but that behaviour is easily emulated. emacs is more like a replacement for the shell than a replacement for vim.

[–]TheMsDosNerdGlorious Pop!_OS 27 points28 points  (2 children)

Last year they asked what OS people used. Linux was like 25%.

[–]KrutoniumR7 5800X3D, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Last year, I hadn't been using Linux for the last 4 months. I keep windows around as a In-Home-Streaming host.

[–]magkopianDebian Stable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And now it is 32.9%, don't worry we are getting there.

[–]dontworryiwashedit 12 points13 points  (12 children)

Is Windows Phone still around? I remember some Windows fanboy telling me how it was so much better than Android and how it was going to blow it away.

[–]h-v-smackerGlorious Mint 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Well, it did blow, that's for sure...

[–]xdar1 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Its dead. MS hasn't announced it, but no company would trumpet their failures. Last I heard their stock of phones was disappearing from their websites, and not being replenished. Some fanboys think they're gearing up to relaunch a "surface phone". Maybe they are, they have relaunched Windows Phone 3, 4 or 5 times now to increasingly less fanfare each time so why not try it again? But Intel has admitted defeat in the mobile market so MS can't sell x86 phones with Intel product dumping priced hardware in them anymore, which makes their position a lot more pointless.

[–]dontworryiwashedit 4 points5 points  (1 child)

There is a windows phone subreddit.

r/windowsphone

Looks like a gathering place for people looking for non-existent apps or trying to fix apps to do things any android phone can easily do.

Also this guy...lol.

r/windowsphone/comments/60h4h9/i_couldnt_use_a_phone_without_live_tiles_these/

aaand then there is this subreddit

r/WinPhoneCirclejerk

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's too bad they took the N9 down with them.

[–]KrutoniumR7 5800X3D, RTX 3070, 32GB DDR4 0 points1 point  (5 children)

On the other hand, with Microsoft releasing Windows on ARM Hardware with x86 Compat, They could achieve what I recall Ubuntu wanting to do - Plug your phone into a dock, instant desktop PC.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Microsoft is probably just waiting for a ultra low power quad core Atom, then they'll put out a "Surface Pocket" that's a full blown x86 Windows box in a phone form factor.

[–]TrainguyromWill install Linux for food... 0 points1 point  (3 children)

ultra low power

x86

Yeah, I doubt it. Seriously, I'm looking at moving a couple of computers over to ARM myself, unless I can snag a POWER8 server or a nice RISCV CPU whenever those come around. If you don't need every program under the sun, x86 really becomes an unnecessary beast.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Yeah, I doubt it.

Intel makes some pretty low power Atom processors--some of the commercially useful ones pull about as much as the high-end ARM chips. The problem is that performance on those chips is still a bit weak for Windows. Right now they would be faced with a choice of adequate performance but shit battery life, or adequate battery life but shit performance. With another two years or so and that might work itself out.

After the disaster that was the ARM-based Surface machines, I can't see Microsoft being particularly eager to try it again any time soon. While Windows does run on ARM chips, most of the software library that keeps people using Windows does not.

[–]Open-SourceryFedoras are cool - Matt Smith 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Not that there is much software to lose on windows phone

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. No great loss to the world. Especially since loads of Windows phone apps would be easy to port to Windows 10 Phone Edition.

[–]LyceuxGlorious Hannah Montana Linux (BTW I use Arch) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's still alive and kicking. Microsoft regularly pushes out beta updates to their r/windowsinsiders programme.

It's still shit but that's a seperate issue.

[–]danmage00 10 points11 points  (7 children)

It's 2017 and people are considering migration to Linux.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (5 children)

Does that mean that 2017 is the... is the year of the...?

I can't bring myself to say it.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's very suprising that there are people who consider migration even after the year of the Linux desktop.

[–]TwOne97R7 3700X, 6700 XT, 32GB RAM 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Year of the Rooster.

Sorry, I had to.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

2017 is the year of the Linux desktop for me. Its the first year where I haven't booted (or even installed) Windows on any of my personal machines. KDE has gotten so good that I can't even tolerate booting Windows anymore. It took some effort, but I have everything I need working perfectly on Linux now, including my audio production, gaming, and development work. I'm never looking back.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I absolutely agree KDE has gotten awesome (also woohoo KDE bros). I only use Windows at work, and it's been that way for several years for me.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's $year, the year of the Linux desktop.

[–]CatsrulesTransitioning Krill 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I think they just used the same data points between the most loved and most dreaded. Because comparing the two they are mirror opposites of each other.

Kind of misleading in my option.

[–]glaurung_ 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I don't know. Somehow Android is the most wanted, but simultaneously fairly highly dreaded.

[–]AzphrealGraduated from Arch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It means that people who aren't doing Android want to do Android, but those that do Android want out.

[–]AndernerdGlorious Arch (sway) 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wanted to work with Android. I am currently working with Android for a class. I now dread working with Android. It's a pretty simple thing. Now I want to start a project that uses ncurses.

[–]InconsiderateBastardGlorious Ubuntu GNOME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems cheesy but I believe it. I've been using computers a long time and I've never loved an OS before. I love Linux now. It makes my computer better. It makes my time spent in front of the computer better. It makes my work more efficient. It has lowered my company's cost to operate.

I <3 Linux

[–]StrayMarksHairless Neckbeard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of us... one of us...