No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.
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Idk how many people I have met who don't know what windows is despite using it for years. For them it is Mac and PC (pc meaning windows), anything outside of that is black magic or hacker stuff.
Why is a MacOS related screenshot posted in a Linux community for a question about Windows?
MacOS is UNIX, Linux is UNIX, if I'm not mistaken.
No, Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX like. MacOS is UNIX, based on a BSD system.
Linux is unix-like.
Hard to swallow pills: GNU is not Unix and Linux is just a kernel
It's like the mr worldwide meme
Clearly this is Commodore
And what's with all the upvotes?
Probably because of "Linux is winning". ;-)
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.
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 guess I’m not techie enough to meet these people as I’m just talking to windows end users.
They exist, they're just more corporate and centralized, and inundated with basic tech support questions due to the huge install base.
Like this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/windows
If you dig deep enough in there you'll find administrators talking about powershell hacks and devops and group policy and stuff like that. There's probably people who are "passionate" about Windows, I'd imagine, but since it's closed source there's only so much you can do without being literally an employee of MS. The people I've met like this are kind of smugly defensive about Windows because they've invested so much training and knowledge into its arcana, but it's not exactly "passion".
Windows is the safe (or was) default. If you walk into most companies, that's what everyone has. If you buy a PC, that's what's installed. Using Linux or Mac is a conscious choice. That "us vs. them" feeling tends to foster community.
Windows was never the safe option, it was the anticompetative option that took away the safe options!! Windows has always been quite genuinely the least secure, least stable, least maintainable option.
I think it’s “Safe” as in “No one was ever fired for choosing IBM” or more on the nose: If you choose to install Linux on all company computers and the CFO gets mad when Excel doesn’t work, why aren’t we just using windows??!?!? Then it’s your ass on the line. You will have a million enterprise software vendors that supports Windows, fewer that supports Linux.
It’s no longer the safe bet for a lot of companies/countries because of how USA is being run at the moment, but that’s s whole other reason.
"thats whats installed" I remember those times, but now Microsoft is forcing you to bloat your cheaper PC with win11, otherwise it will be out of date.Thats the problem now.
Customers don't make good good communities.
I recon its because nearly everyone who uses windows hates it, and with MacOS and Linux there are proud users.
Imagine being proud of using Apple 😂
It is a really good system for media production
Imagine being proud of using Microsoft!
At least Apple makes decent hardware (and questionable software practices). But at least macOS is true Unix. With WSL now I'm not really sure which experience is better.
I'd still take Linux any time.
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I know several 😅 And me who are using an iPhone SE 2020 only for testing and learning the shitty system, can't understand how the F people love iOS. I have also tried macOS. Hated it.
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!windows11@lemmy.world.
I found this community
Also some more from a quick search for "windows", and my instance isn't even that big to help with discoverability:
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I think it's not that active, right?
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i find quite ironic that it's full of troublshooting, while linux comms are primarily full of entertainment. "Windows just works out of the box" btw
3/4 posts surrounding this one were asking for help with Linux.
Also the linux community on lemmy is big enough go have its own dedicated help/support communities.
I haven’t seen how Lemmy responds to troubleshooting requests about Linux. But I remember some Linux Reddit communities being full of vitriol of like “don’t use things you don’t understand” or like “distro? version? Hardware specs? Logs? Did you even search?” Which I believe led to people just starting out uncomfortable with asking for help there
That could be considered (relative) dead, given how many Windows users exist compared to Linux. In more serious note, I just think that Lemmy attracts more Linux users than Windows. That's all to it.
'Cause Lemmy.
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