But with Linux, you can init=/bin/vim

Why settle for running vim on your os when vim can just be your os?

Nothing. I hate having control over my personal property.

Linux tends to get out of your way to let you get shit done. Windows tends to be a marketing platform for Microsoft products that lets you get shit done.

I don't see why my office computer needs some xbox app I can't uninstall.

da penguin!!!!

Number one, I get to tell people that I use Arch. I could anyway, but this way I'm not lying.

Number two, it's not Micro$oft or Crapple.

Number three, living in my mother's basement isn't as cost effective as I was hoping it'd be so free helps immensely.

1. Lighter
2. Better on weaker hardware
3. More options how you set up your system: Desktop Environments/Window Managers.
4. Free and Open Source (so no paying out the arse for Windows).
5. More Software options.
6. Better Security.
7. No monitoring by your OS provider.

Well, you actually own it for one, given Linux is an open platform, you're generally not at some corporation's will unlike with closed platforms like Windows or even macOS, you're also not arbitrarily locked out of running it on hardware made before a certain date unlike with Win11; as long as the kernel supports it, it should run on your hardware, where Windows arbitrarily locks out anything older than Zen+ or Kaby Lake without a modded install medium starting with Win11, and it generally uses less resources than Windows nowadays although that varies based on configuration.

It's all about the penguins

I like forward slashes

Wanted to reply until I saw its a shitpost... You nearly had me :D

What finally pushed me over the edge was when I was trying to fix something in Windows and it said I couldn’t access that part of the OS. Bitch, you work for me, not the other way around. I’ve flopped back and forth between Linux and Windows for decades and just decided that anything I couldn’t do in Linux I just wouldn’t do. So far, I haven’t really encountered anything. With how much of my average computing is done in a browser these days, Firefox doesn’t really care which OS it’s running on.

It depends on the user. If you'll install GNU/Linux distribution as a nooby, choose some easy distribution - most probably it will install a lot of bloatware, and possibly could be unstable... But if you'll go into details and learn the basic you could install some better distro, which you will install manually, and you will install all you need, no bloat. If you will, here are the perks:

• Stability (it also depends on your hardware.. NVIDIA for example is pretty bad, but Intel or AMD is great. Must be better stability than on Windows, if you'll not fk up)
• Performance (since you installed everything by yourself, and you will have no bloat, telemetry and etc. you will run the OS with great performance)
• Security (vulns on big distros are getting fixed fastly, and there are less vulns than on Windows, also less viruses you could get on a desktop)
• Customizability (you could change anything you want, desktop environment, sometimes init system, pretty much anything but it depends on a distro and your skills)

Me, as a.. I would say half a professional GNU/Linux user, would recommend Void Linux for half-experienced or experienced user, because I like the runit init system and the stability, even though it's rolling model.

But for a newbie... I don't know. All of them I tried - they had problems. So it's better to either endure, either start from a not-so-hard distro like Void Linux.

EDIT: oh yeah.. I read a lot of comments here and I would also add that the system is free, open-source (with Linux-libre), and it's also not so bad at gaming since Steam made Proton, a fork of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). I also game sometimes and I use Lutris.. Don't know if there any other cooler alternative heh.

I honestly don’t know. Every OS has its goods & bads. But generally I think it just comes down to whatever’s available. Personally, I use:

• Windows on my work laptop (because that’s what they gave me),
• MacOS on my personal laptop (because I like it),
• Ubuntu on my home automation / media server (because it was free).