Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
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It’s open source and not owned by an evil corporation. It doesn’t have ads. It doesn’t mine my data and sell it to the highest bidder. It doesn’t have AI shoved in every nook and cranny. It’s much lighter to run. I can easily run it on a 10 year old laptop.
I think I can handle the ads part, but the ‘lighter’ part, thats a good one.
It’s not light if it has ads.
Ads are bloat aswell.
Serious question: Why can you handle the ads? I’m serious. Why do you accept that something you have purchased, something you own, should be pushing ads at you? Broadcast services makes some sense, they have to make money somewhere. But something you bought? Why?
not op but people generally get desensitized to ads because they are everywhere.
corporations then sneak it in for an extra buck because they can.
Not just about delivering ads but also to track your browsing history across different sites and devices. This is why their installing flock camera alprs to capture your device signal and correlate it with things like Bluetooth headphones, smart watch, even your tire pressure monitoring system. Basically anything with RF signals.
Its called ELSAG Signal Trace and their everywhere now for use by law enforcement.
i didnt like w10 with already pre-installed software, from games to random shareware. Didnt like that there where starting to test ads in the start menu or that OneDrive had decided to start operating in the background without notice.
I already had a mac, but didnt like that I could play most games, mainly used it as a work pc for design work. So then I searched and learned that linux was having many changes with proton and wine, and decided to give it a go, and I think its been 3 or 4 years since then. There are things, like graphic design work that I needed to re-learn, but it hasnt affected me greatly. I fully recommend it for most people. Running Mint
Mint? Is it as slow and bloated as Ubuntu, its base? Didnt you need to make it LMDE to make it faster and lighter a bit?
Mint does come with a lot of preinstalled software, but I wouldn’t consider it bloated. It’s stuff that most people will use. The MATE and Xfce versions are fairly light.
It does more of what I want, with less time and work to maintain, more reliable and lower cost than the commercial alternatives.
I find that reinstalling and setting up Linux again is a lot quicker than Windows. I put Windows 10 on a spare drive fairly recently, and the amount of restarts it needs to get all the updates is flippin’ nuts. Windows nearly crashes for the first few hours, until I get all the updates installed and drivers set up. Too much background crap. In linux I can be ready in about 20 minutes.
Same. And it requires a carefully configured router/firewall to install Windows without infection/corruption before all the current security updates are installed.
Much better than Windows 11, the only other choice I had.
I’m just grateful it exists.
Windows decided my perfectly functional PC couldn’t run 11, and Linux Mint has no issues running. I’m not getting rid of a perfectly good computer just because Microsoft wants me to. My husband has to use Windows for work and it seems like a huge pain in the ass. I’m not into fiddling with computers, and Linux is at the point now where it feels no more complicated than Windows (and often significantly less complicated).
From a practical standpoint, when combined with upgradable hardware, it means you can run the same machine for several years, saving money and reducing e-waste. I also believe that FOSS will always provide better long-term solutions than proprietary alternatives.
With Linux, you can get 15+ years out of a PC if you got decent hardware.
powershell sucks. RegEdit sucks. Start menu sucks. Can’t use Niri. Slow. Can’t use it while updating. Inverted backslashes for paths are horrible. The only useful feature is WSL, and if you get rid of all other bullshits, you get Linux.
Because window is genuinely more of a pain to use in 2026.
It’s better.
- FOSS. I’m a software engineer and making the world a better place and helping others is why I love my job and what I study. FOSS is the thing that can make tge world a better place and help others.
I also have a plethora of technical reasons, but I’m sure others will cover them. Just this ideological and philosophical reason is enough for me to be using Linux.
Windows bugged Out more and more. I am Just annoyed by the Bad Performance.
Troubleshooting in windows is also a pain. When I’ve learned how easy the Switch can be done, the Deal was sealed.
This. With Linux there are lots of ways to troubleshoot problems. With Windows it always comes back to reinstalling the software, drivers, updates, trying different settings desperately, reinstalling Windows.
100%. I always tell people that the biggest difference between windows bugs and Linux bugs is that for linux I can almost guarantee that its my fault. I’ve ran a command or installed a program that has issues. Which also means I can fix it.
Privacy performance and fun
Because I feel at home with it
Ye it’s very comf c:
There isn’t a silly Big Company that can change stuff without me wanting the change, or inhibit me from making changes I want.
When I set up my Linux how I like it, it stays like that until I decide I want change. And when I do want change, I can make whatever change I want c:
It’s better.
