I problem solved and tinkered all day everyday on windows, linux just worked and used less ram, I immediately noticed I had many more tabs open and no lag

Originally I switched just because I didn’t have a Windows install available and Linux was convenient enough to just download and stick on there. But then once I got used to using it I massively preferred it. I’m the opposite of what you’re describing, I don’t want “problem solving and tinkering”, I like Linux because it basically just does what I want it to do. Windows does what Microsoft wants it to do lol.

got sick of trying to make Windows “more private” until I realized I didn’t have to

My computer was old and crusty and windows 11 would’ve surely killed it. Fedora let it continue on until I eventually made my new computer that I’m currently using, and there’s no way I was gonna shell out for a windows license when linux is free

I had an overwhelming feeling of corporations telling me what they are selling and that I just have to deal with it. Apple, microsoft, adobe, all subscriptions that lock you in and hold you hostage.

Maybe I am just being over the top, but I miss feeling like I OWNED something. With linux? I own my laptop again.

To flex on strangers online and post to unixporn fora

I moved from FreeBSD to Linux, for GPU rendering in Blender. If it wasn’t for GPU drivers, I’d still be on FreeBSD.

The last Windows OS I used was XP, around 2004-ish. Even back then, it was obvious to me that, because it was closed source, that they could one day start acting against my interests, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I saw open source as an insurance policy - it prevents vendors from acting maliciously against their users. In that very quaint, old time, nobody believed that MS would ever do something like that, but it didn’t matter - the fact was that they could, so inevitably, they would.

I’m quite proud of how prescient I was when I look at what they’re doing today. No evil is too great to stop a greedy businessman.

Anyway, I decided to just be brave and create a partition on my main drive and install Ubuntu on it. All I needed to get my work done was OpenOffice, LaTeX, a browser, a compiler, Python… Everything worked better in Linux than Windows so even though I was dual-booting, I practically never used Windows again after a couple weeks. Later on, I switched to Debian, and the next laptop that I bought, I just wiped the hard disk and used Linux for the whole thing. I kept the recovery partition because I was paranoid but obviously never needed it.

Today, there’s no doubt in my mind that Linux is the best OS. Sure, Macs have better batteries, but if I’m doing productive work, then I don’t really need more than an hour away from my charger. I could maybe agree that the BSDs are better, but I’ve never tried them.

I got tired of having an OS that is working against me. That is not a healthy relationship. With Linux you can really see there is a shift in the mindset. User experience is prioritized and you are allowed to do what you want wherever you want to. This means for example things like running a live iso, installing the OS and surfing the web at the same time is possible. I can remap the super key, and other keys. Oh, tiling Window manager exist like hyperland. Omarchy. And how about tabs in the file explorer. Why did not Microsoft implement it 20 years ago like when it came to Linux.

I first started running Linux in the early 2000s. I wasn’t solely using Linux, but it was very much a situation where I used it for what it was best at and used Windows for where I needed Windows. Mostly that was for games, but it was early in my IT career and Windows was a skill I needed to build, so I did a lot of dual booting. It really propelled my understanding of computers running and breaking multiple OSes.

I fully made the switch a couple of years ago when I realized I hadn’t booted my Windows install in six months. Linux has come a long way, and has also been helped by so many things being browser-based these days.

Honestly it was the advertising in a product I paid for, that and I still remember the days of borg bill gates on slashdot buying and ruining companies and all the hate we had for them back then.

I’m tired of shit randomly not working, mainly audio. Most of the stuff I need to do is Linux okay now so I’m moving my laptop to something with kde, probs nobara. Or debian with kde. My desktop will probably dualboot kubuntu (bc unfortunately rocm is the least annoying on that) and windows 11 because I unfortunately like playing r6 siege with my friends.

My backup laptop runs Bunsenlabs os bc windows dies of death.

Avoiding studying for exams in 2007.

Windows from 3.1, MS DOS before that

Come W 8 I was getting grumpy, started dual booting Ubuntu.

Not able to overcome my own apathy, dual boot as in 95% of the time Windows

Come the W 11 announcement some time ago I grabbed another NVME, installed Linux Mint and said fisk it and never went back. Only distro hopped to LMDE haha

Fuck Terminal :)

Here are the following reasons why i switched to Linux:

• feels Sluggish to use,especially starting with Windows 10 and it got worse with 11 (And this is on a i3 12100f + 16/8gb ram + gtx 1650 and i only used 7,10 and 11 )
• Shoving AI Slop with copilot.
• Forcing/nagging a Microsoft account (ik I have one but why can’t I sign in later or whenever I want to)
• Little flexibility and portability.(side note: i like how i can use Linux on my RPI5 Backup pc aswell :D)
• Buggy,especially with Vibe coded Windows 11.
• Bloat,especially with preinstalled apps you cannot remove .

And that’s what I can remember