This is like asking "where is White Culture?"
My sibling in Christ, its called the Mainstream.
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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.
I don't understand. Why should people run windows?
because they want to see ads in their start menu, send their pictures to some MS servers and have their notepad.exe crawl and crash because of AI.
you know, all the fun stuf...
Also if they want malware infections through notepad.exe - I can probably accomplish that on Linux with Wine, but it would take more effort.
Edit: I might give up and just send the Malware author a few bucks, out of pity.
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.
Yet, you just felt the need to put 'Windows' and 'good' in the same sentence. Interesting 🤔
Sorry, threw out some bait and wanted to see what I caught 😉 🎣
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.
Goddamnit, I installed librewolf on my office pc and changed the theme of slopOS-11 “oh he’s a hacker!”.
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.
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.
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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".
I used to know a kid who was a hardcore Windows stan. He wasn't terribly bright. He had a business idea for a company called "Hackers For Hire" where he would come to your house and show you how to download commercial software for free.
I do sysadmin and hate all Microsoft software from Windows to their cloud offerings.
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