Switched to linux a couple years ago. Been mostly fine. The day to day is a basic-ass plasma kde desktop. I power the machine on. Type my password. Open firefox, steam, etc. It’s fine.
One time after updating and foolishly following some “sudo apt stuff” to try to fix something preventing it from updating, it booted without a graphical environment, but reinstalling the nvidia drivers fixed that from the terminal. That was admittedly scary, but people in the discord were helpful.
I’d still rather have that kind of hiccup than support Microsoft.
Switch to Linux you actual cowards.
It’s not that hard.
Microsoft’s Windows OEM revenue fell 27% in the July to September 2026 quarter
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I switched to linux in 2018 because windows 10 sucked too
I’d bet this isn’t even a Windows thing, more like computers are unaffordable as home units and companies are letting their fleets age longer than usual trying to get out from under current RAM pricing.
I switched to Linux. :3
Me too. I had a custom gaming computer, but windows didn’t support it for windows 11. It took me awhile to find the right distro. I dealt with the same thing on the Linux side with people telling me I just had to replace all my hardware for Linux compatibility. Finally found CachyOS and it’s been one of the first times everything just worked on my computer.
Samesies :3
Pretty much every one in tech at my company has switched from a Windows OS to Linux or Mac in the last year. Almost no one who knows that there is a working alternative is choosing to use Windows in their personal life.
I switched after 30+years on Windows/DOS. I got my mom to switch, one (or two) of my brothers have switched, my little niece’s first computer is running Linux. In the span of a year, my family went from 100% windows machines to about 70%. Hell I got my friend in another state to switch to linux, and he’s really running with it. Microsoft has a lot of momentum, they can endure these losses by relying on their business platform, but unless they commit to making a clean, light, privacy-focused, secure and stable OS, we will probably see the last Windows in the next decade.
I had already switched, I just nuked my old windows partition that I was keeping around for literally one program. Then I got some standalone DJ decks, and the program to export MP3/WAV/OGG/FLACC to work with them only runs on windows, so I got a win10 m$ surface 5 for £30 and it’s only jobs are to format stuff for the decks, read totally legally sourced manga, and practice hiragana/katana/kanji.
And… honestly? I’ve got my whole music library formatted and transferred to a usb for the decks… probably going to wipe it and install Nobara or something with the Surface Kernel Patch preloaded…
If you want to install Win 10 for whatever reason, you can use this to activate it: https://massgrave.dev/
I use Linux for most desktop things and Win for gaming.
It’s me, I’m holdouts.
My experience with Linux hasn’t been good enough for me to move yet. I want to, but I’m really resistant to having to fix a bunch of stuff and use CLI for basically anything.
I have zero desire to distro hop until I find what I like, but when it comes to my PC, I’m lazy.
What?
I moved to Fedora this year and barely had to touch the CLI and I even have Nvidia.
There are distros that do literally everything for you.
The only reason not to switch is software for work, or laziness.
There are websites where you can demo distros. You don’t have to download or install, and can just check them out from the browser.
Just FYI, I am another holdout but Linux hasn’t been a command line required OS for like 20 years. (Unless you’re doing driver installs) You should try KDE. I’m mainly holding it out because several games that I still play with my friends will not run in a non-windows environment.
One day I’ll remote into another PC to browse the web, and only allow steam protocols on my win10 machine through a firewall to play games. Life will be good.
Same deal here. I’m happy running Linux servers, just not as a daily driver.
i was using windows 10 because I primarily use my workstation for gaming, and ten years ago linux gaming wasn’t great. Then Steam pushed the envelope, but I was too lazy to switch. All windows 11 had to do was not be shitty, and I probably would have upgraded.
Now, I’m back on linux; my rightful home.
Switched to Linux, it’s so much better. Only thing windows is good for now is playing those shitty “AAA” games with rootkit anticheat, and frankly with how much market share Linux is picking up in gaming thanks to the steam deck etc, those corpos probably won’t want to hold onto the sinking garbage scowl that is M$ + EAC for much longer.
There has never been a better time to switch to Linux. Just do it!
Pretty sure the drop had more to do with PC price increases from the AI-driven component shortages than the quality of Windows.
Two things can be true!
Hardware prices are particularily problematic for Window users who need to buy a new computer because Windows 11 is not compatible with their not-so-old computers.
I’m pretty much entirely Linux but I still dual-boot one machine for work and… I literally can’t upgrade to Windows 11 because of the TPM requirement. And I’m not upgrading my PC during a massive surge in component prices just to accommodate Microsoft’s nonsense.
I don’t get “sales” of windows faltering, because I think to this day you can still activate win11 with valid win8 keys.
Oh okay they mean OEM keys but those are tied to new computers so that seems to be wholly encumbered by a different problem which is needs for more compute haven’t gone up since 10 came out?
maybe Windows 13 will be a good one.
I dunno, 7,8,10,11,13 might be a bit too consistent for Microsoft, we don’t want people to accidentally understand what order things release in.
Introducing Windows S series X Live 360 One Professional.
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Microsoft likes to reuse names for things that are unrelated. I think the new “Windows” will be called either “Windows OS” or “CoPilot”.
Windows 27
Is that the midterm OS that’s surprisingly stable until SP1?
