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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).

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Does it ever bother some of you that "I'm switching to Linux!" is just more of a way to appear rebellious than actually committing to the choice? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 6 days ago by flamiera@kbin.melroy.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Everytime Microsoft blunders, which is a lot and it is reported, it never fails that there will be numerous individuals proclaiming their switch to Linux. But I always feel like a lot of it is just simply clout, a pat-on-the-back feeling for deciding against the masses kind of feel.

And it always makes me beg to really see how those kind of people fare if they actually did switch and use Linux on a daily basis.

I'll take anyone seriously if they actually switch and sometimes actually talk to me about how their Linux experience is going. Because more times than not, I always assume it's some dual-boot user who could sneak their way back to Windows time to time and barely use Linux.

And I'll see the statistics of the OS marketshare budge...slightly, for Linux. I'm proud that Linux at all that it is gaining more usage than it has before than where it had been 15+ years ago and earlier.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

no. and why does it matter to you so much? If someone wants to say they switched to linux then awesome, have at it, good job, have fun and all that. but then you roll in with "ok...how are you using it? show me!" who cares? you're literally gate keeping an operating system.

you don't have to commit to a damn operating system, it's a tool. If I had a Brand A hammer and it really sucked I'd swap it for a Brand B hammer that was suggested to me. Now if Brand A suddenly started producing a better hammer and admitted their previous hammer was garbage then I would consider going back to Brand A.

If Microsoft came out tomorrow and said "you know what? we were wrong. We were wrong about AI, we were wrong about 11, we're going to provide you with a better OS" I would consider going back to it. I'd at the very least try it. Or if someone came out with something brand new that wasn't Linux or MacOS or Windows and it was a better tool than all of them I'd switch to that.

The point is I'm not going to lose sleep over someone wanting to switch and then not, why do I care? I got more stuff to worry about than some random stranger on the internet not using a specific OS. What DOES bother me more are people replying to comments where someone is having issues with Windows and says "just use linux" that isn't helping anyone and you come off as a basement dwelling asshole that's waiting on their chicken nuggies to finish heating in the microwave.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

if someone came out with something brand new that wasn't Linux or MacOS or Windows and it was a better tool than all of them

RIP BeOS

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Haiku exists.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I know and I still have high hopes, but it's still behind. Back then BeOS was what I used exclusively, these days it would need to have a version of KVM to run virtual machines to make up for what's needed and isn't there.