I use Debian testing (Linux) for the most part. I maintain a Windows VM for Apple Music.
macOS, mostly.
Been fiddling with Mint lately on my 2011 Macbook Pro, with a view to using it for self hosting a bunch of stuff, but haven’t really had the time / brane capacity to really figure it all out.
Windows can lick my anus. I have Win11 in a VM on my work Mac, and it’s dreadful.
Ditched windows several months ago now :3
Linux. Seems like Windows comes with a lot of baggage these days.
Linux. Couldn't be arsed dealing with Windows.
Been 100% Linux for over 3 years. All my servers, my fancy gaming PC, my personal laptop, my side business laptop, my work laptop, my Steam Deck, all Linux.
No dual boot, I have a single Windows VM on my work laptop to test Windows apps because my workplace is a Windows shop.
I don't miss Windows even a little bit. I am so much more free and enjoy computing way more now.
MS-DOS. Just joking, Linux, obviously.
Both. I have a desktop running Ubuntu (though I am strongly considering switching to debian) I use that for most computer related tasks and activities. I also have a gaming laptop running windows I dig out for some VR (it has a better gpu) and professional gigs like design or video editing.
I would install linux on the laptop, but I can't live without a few programs I have never successfully gotten running under linux (Resolve and the affinity suite). I could dual boot my desktop into rock linux (which is the only "official" resolve distro) and try to get affinity running under wine. I have been out of work for a few years though, so removing windows from the laptop isn't a high priority.
Linux for 10 years now.
Linux
Linux desktop and laptop
I use all 3, ordered by how often I use them: Linux > MacOS (hackintosh) > Windows
Linux for gaming Linux for servers Linux for desktops/notebooks Linux at work Linux for mobile
i get to use linux at home, im forced to use and support windows at work
Both. I'd prefer Linux because it respects me as a user, but unfortunately too much stuff constantly breaks to fully convert. The moment I can play Assetto Corsa with all my mods using my wheel in VR I'll consider fully switching. Many other games already work though, so I'm slowly converting to using Linux as my default and Windows as the exception instead of the other way around.
(I use Arch btw)
Desktop:
Windows. Got the thing a few years ago and didn't bother installing Linux since I was still new to it and didn't have the drive to learn enough about Linux to go through with it. Haven't done it now because I'm probably upgrading in less than a year and no point since I can just use it for experimenting with server stuff.
Laptop:
My last couple laptops have ended up with Linux on it. On my absolutely shitty pawnshop laptop I broke something in windows, making it so I couldn't do a lot of admin things since there was technically no admit account. Didn't feel like paying for a fresh installation on the shitty thing, so I instead switched it to Ubuntu, which I had in a thumb drive because I was trying to follow a guide telling me how to fix my windows issue, which didn't work at all.
My current store bought laptop runs a Debian fork that I wanted to try, MX. I quickly ran through the win11 setup process before removing that bloatware OS off it. Now I have things set up in a way that works just right for me, despite not being able to figure out why the headphone jack has a problem where it'll only play very staticy, very low volume sound at max volume depending on how loud the original audio is. I've given up on that, though, because I'm not smart enough to figure it out and have already switched to a wireless bluetooth set that works.
GNU/Linux only, with KDE Plasma for desktop as possible. Using it on work laptop (Kubuntu), home laptop (openSUSE Tumbleweed), PC (openSUSE Tumbleweed, also used for gaming), Steam Deck (Arch-based SteamOS). I don't use spyware/adware so Windows is out of question for me. Also it is not free as in freedom and opensource.
windows ftw (forced through work) linux btw (because tortuous work)
Linux, it fits my needs better on desktop, and is much less painful to troubleshoot than Windows, with more freedom and control than macOS.
Yes
Dual booting WinOs 11 and OpenSuse Leap 15
I only use OpenSuse rarely tho.
Need Win11 to run stuff like Ansys for college.
Windows to play pirated game
Linux for everything else, including work.
installed ubuntu as dual boot, but windows gladly broke, currently using ubuntu
Both. It's not like you have to use only one.
Linux, but I keep windows on the other drive just in case I need a windows only app. Rarely happens except for VR.
Linux Mint
I use Fedora 40, with KDE spin since I'm not a fan of the GNOME UI. I actually have windows on a sperate SSD on standby just in case I need some program that won't work even on WINE. The user experience is much better than windows, no random bugs/inexplicable disconnection of USB devices, No ads, No random bloatware that can only be uninstalled through the terminal like edge, The right-click menu doesn't take 6 seconds to load for inexplicable reasons & it doesn't raise the temperature of my PC by 10C because I opened my web browser or VSC
Built a new computer last year and didn't want anything to do with win11, so I switched to Linux Mint. I really like it, and there's a lot of help all around online. Thankfully because of Proton, I haven't had any trouble playing any game yet. It's been great!
I do miss ClipStudio for painting and OneNote for ttrpg notes, but I've been making due with Krita and Notion.
Linux Mint, Debian edition for my PCs, Debian for my servers.
Edit: Win11 at work.
I'd use linux in a heartbeat if it was supported by the tools I use for work.
GNU/Linux for life. Winbooze only at work, sadly.
Linux all the way, for loads of practical and ethical reasons
Linux, but sometimes I have to use Windows.
Windows and Linux dual boot on my PC. Linux on Steam Deck (obviously, since it's the default)
Windows. Can't be arsed to deal with Linux.
Windows at home because use computer only for gaming.
Windows at work because required.
Like Linux and used it for years but don't have a usecase currently that justify it.
Linux
I distro hop often but im currently using debian.
i switched to linux exclusively i think in 2011. currently using mx linux on my desktop.
Currently Debian.
Linux.
I use both. Windows for the domain, backup, Video-surveillance, emby and some other critical things, and linux for proxmox and a lot of diverse vms. Mainly ubuntu lts.
It's not a religous thing, it's a pragmatic one. Best tool for the job
Linux (windows at work tho).
I like that you're asking this on Lemmy, home of Linux lovers.
Windows. Albeit 11 sucks so much that I fully intend to give Linux a shot at my next hardware upgrade.
Running windows mostly because I really don't want to fight or research, etc... after doing just that 40hr+/WK. You folks have me convinced it won't be the hell past experience made it to be.
Laptop runs debian but I don't use it much.
I use both
Windows at work and Arch at home.
Switched to Mint for desktop. Been mostly fine. Getting it installed was surprisingly harrowing. Annoyed that most mod tools for games are targeting windows. I guess I have to figure out wine and its whole prefix system.
Windows, but I'm looking to get a laptop I can dual boot into Linux. The pipeline strikes again.
Linux for laptops. Windows for desktops.
Linux is not 100% there for me to really use. It never really was. I've sometimes tried to go through a folder of all of the setup files for programs and utilities I commonly use on Windows. I just know for a fact that while Linux has open source counterparts to some of them, they don't for all of them. Even if Linux did, it always feels like I have to take an extra step or two, to run it as opposed to on Windows by simply clicking it to run.
Then it's a matter of driver support as well.
Then it's the relentless browbeating from Linux fanboys that just turn me off from considering going full Linux. I keep envisioning this scenario where someone is calling tech support for like an audio issue and the support guy is going "I see, well...all you have to do is...GO LINUX!" he shouts in the ear piece at the caller. He would repeat "GO LINUX!" over and over until the caller hangs up, while he's still on the line, drooling over himself as he mumbles "Linux...." while imagining the Tux penguin, Torvalds and other open source figures. Eyes glossed over.
That's the kind of fanboyism I can't stand with Linux.
I was dual booting windows NT4 and Slackware 3.0. A lot of my old 3.11 and 95 software didn't work on NT4, so eventually I stopped using it.
I've moved on to Arch Linux, now, but the software I use to sync my palm pilot doesn't work. It's available in the AUR, but it won't build.
My primary machine is still Windows, but pretty much all of my other machines run some version of Linux. The only reason my primary is winows is because I do a lot of 3d modeling and gaming. (Yes I own a steamdeck and it works really nice, but some of my fav's still refuse to just click the "let anticheat work on Linux" button.)
Mainly linux but i have windows for when i need to scan something or run programs that won't start trough wine. Mainly the driver for my hp printer since scanning doesnt work with hplip
Windows, namely because Paint Tool SAI only runs on Windows...
Windows due to gaming.
