Wasn’t trying to be condescending. Your right about BSD. Sorry. They are completely different from each other I guess is the point. I think I edited it ok?
I computers have been my main hobby since I was around 15 and had access to a sinclair ZX81. My dad brought it home in 81. I have owned and built a great many computers since then and have always used whatever OS was best for my needs at the time. For the last 20 years that has been a mix of Windows and Linux.
Windows 10 pushed me over the edge and I feel that I can not longer be pragmatic about OS choice.
I ran Linux exclusively for a year, and you know what it was OK. I rarely missed Windows applications. I did however miss playing games with my buddies. I have been in the same gaming clan for close to 20 years. Not being able to play together really started to eat into me. So on the release of Battlefield One, a game they were all going to play I reinstalled Windows 7.
I will keep Win7 around for awhile, at least for as long as I have to.
My PC needs replacing and I’m sort of hopping I can build something that will make hardware passthrough easy as my current rig make it quite tricky. I’m also hopeful that it will become easier to set up over the next couple of years. I hear promising things from Fedora. Once it get figured out to the point where hardware passthrough is a simple as putting a tick in a checkbox I will have little to no excuses. I will not longer need Windows installed on bare metal.
So I would be happy to run Linux exclusively but I missed my friends, it’s not that BF1 is all that good but it’s what they play so I play it too. For that I installed Windows, a penguin dies every time someone installs Windows… I feel bad now 
I didn’t call you any names though.
Please resolve this in PM
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will do captain
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Even Microsoft likes Linux these days, or they wouldn’t be working with the Ubuntu folks. Apparently, your Windoze fanboy buddies don’t keep up with current events. I suppose that ignorance really is bliss.
Back when we were dating, Microsoft was good to me. They brought me DOS 3.3, 5.0, 6.0 and 6.01. The future looked bright. But then something changed. They promised the sun, the moon, the stars and to always love me, but instead they gave me W3.x, W9.x, Vista, W8.x, and W10. Frankly, this has been nothing short of domestic violence and I chose to no longer remain in an abusive relationship!
Thankfully there were no children involved and I was able to get custody of the dog. ; )
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microsoft sure puts the “no” in canonical, that’s for sure.
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It’s really just affirms my feelings when I left ubuntu a year back.
it totally skipped my mind, but I did boot up windows about three years ago, when I needed to pair a new logitech mouse with an existing usb receiver. same deal; windows-only software.
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I’ve been using Linux for 5~6 months on my old hp Compaq machine, it has been a great experience, there’s somethings that I really like which makes me stay on Linux and it has been a great experience for me.
symptoms of the same problem.
I’ve used a dualboot for years until recently.
Now I run only Arch Linux, and gaming is on Windows 10 VM with my GPU in a passthrough.
I run on the metal installs of Linux on all my machines: Debian, *buntus, Fedora, CentOS. At work my wizard box runs Fedora and has a Windows 7 VM. Been doing the FT Linux thing for like 3 years or so, now.
For me unix is the right fit, but I do understand it’s not for everyone. What I don’t get is the $2000 MacBook Pro for email and Facebook - or “photoshop.” You damn well can do that on Linux or Winderz.
well windows tends to stay working over long periods of time. even if a windows machine gets bogged down with viruses or laggy software or updates it still always seems at the very least boot and run.
Most 15 year old xp machine you pull out of the garbage that still have their original installs on them will still boot right up despite the software neglect.
While I’ve had many Linux vets say it pretty common for some distros to brick themselves without any changes at all. I know when I dabbled in it for a brief time that was my main issue.
I’m sure they can be perfectly reliable. But that reliability requires much more knowledge than keeping a windows install alive.
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I’ve got Linux on every machine in my house. From my laptops to my desktops to my tablets. They’re all Linux. Though I don’t mind Windows, and sometimes the gaming aspect is appealing, I don’t need Windows, nor do I prefer it. Between Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, and Solus, everything is rock solid and fully cross compatible throughout the house. That and my network being SAN based rather than NAS based for interoperability, I’m fairly satisfied. (It was a pain in the ass to set up though xD)
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24/7 Linux for a few years now. Never going back to Windows. I do have a duel boot for some windows games but I no longer use it and just play steam Linux games only.
I’m a bit weak when it comes to my games.
With For Honor coming out, which is essentially gonna be the dream game I’ve wanted since a kid… well it holds me onto Windows.
Got Linux entirely on my laptop though.
I run opensuse 24/7.
I technically need to run windows 10 for a little while for work, but I am frantically switching that workload back to linux.
Just need to get a couple things running in wine without it crashing every 30 minutes.
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VSCode is like a civic. It works and if you put a lot of money into it, it can even be “good” but you’re better off using something else if you’ve got the means. In this case, “having the means” refers to the ability to use a package manager.
If VSCode was Open Source, I might use it, but until then, I’m using IDEA community.
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What do you mean?