this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
115 points (79.8% liked)
Linux
63358 readers
869 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I guess because no one is passionate about it. It’s just something people are using because it came with their computer.
Here people are almost only talking badly about it. It’s not a good product but I wonder if it’s as bad as people on Lemmy make it sound.
Still I don’t want to waste time away from Linux to discover it by myself.
There are folks who are passionate about Windows, but those folks are also highly unlikely to use something like Lemmy.
While I agree that they aren’t likely to be on Lemmy, even outside of Lemmy, I’ve never met one of them.
I just know people who don’t know there is something else.
Still it’s good for me to have to use (a debloated version) Windows at work, as it allows me to still know how to deal with it.
Windows is worse than people on lemmy make it sound.
Oh there are people who are very passionate about using Windows, in corporations almost exclusively. Had conversation with a system architect recently that made me go over every single reason why Windows isn't my first choice and got more and more frustrated because if given the choice, I would always pick OpenStack over Azure.
What Windows has are dwindling enthusiast numbers.
I was a Windows fanboy for close to 30 years, until I switched to a Linux fanboy and never looked back.
They were amazing at backwards compatibility for decades, now they put up a TPM sized wall of planned obsolescence and instead we got a Linux flavour for anything.
Anyway, I don't think I've ever heard anyone doing the reverse of your experience.
I guess I’m not techie enough to meet these people as I’m just talking to windows end users.