Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
I just had a Plex server die on me because I dared to use ReFS and storage spaces 10 years ago.
The performance uplift I got moving to Proxmox and ZFS filesystem was STUPID. And way more stable.
Lots more command line stuff, but in the age of AI assistants and things I don’t feel that hampered by my lack of syntax knowledge.
Obviously this is about a server though, not my gaming rig with is still on W11. But that’s said Steam has moved things along to a point where I feel like gaming on Linux is within reach.