Linux

Why is a MacOS related screenshot posted in a Linux community for a question about Windows?

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.

This is like asking "where is White Culture?"

My sibling in Christ, its called the Mainstream.

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.

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".

If you're ditching more popular social medias for less popular open source ones, you're probably already a Linux User.

!windows11@lemmy.world.
I found this community

I recon its because nearly everyone who uses windows hates it, and with MacOS and Linux there are proud users.

Customers don't make good good communities.

No one has ever gone out of their way to run windows. At least not in 25y.

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.

It’s like, there is a vegan community, but there isn’t a meat eaters community. We don’t need to spend a lot of time boring people telling them we use Windows, and how good Windows is.

I’ve been using both for about 20 years. I can honestly say most people can and should use both.

I just wiped a trash celeron pc that ran windows awful. I put Ubuntu 24 LTS on it and it screams. Took about an hour.

If you have old hardware that you want to extend the life of or repurpose, consider Linux before buying something new.