• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, if you have the gui enabled and are just using it for web browsing it’s no different than windows.

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        1 year ago

        Because a handful of programs and likely my job will force me to use Windows. I’m interviewing next week for a position where they’ll give me “all IT equipment”, and there were several technical questions about Windows in a prior interview, so no Linux there.

        Still, whenever I can choose to do so, e.g. at home, I pick Linux.

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        1 year ago

        Because sometimes one has no choice, be it for your job, or hardware support, etc.

        Unfortunately, there is some scientific and medical equipment that only supports Microsoft Windows (often obsolete versions, which is even worse).

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          1 year ago

          as much as I love Linux, some softwares don’t work with it

          haven’t dualbooted windows yet though because I have a small drive and I don’t need Windows update fucking with my bootloader

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        1 year ago

        For general use, Linux is fantastic. But as other people have said, some software only works on other systems. Also, some software does run on Linux, but not acceptably so (for example, SteamVR).

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          But as other people have said, some software only works on other systems.

          For most of the general tasks that people have traditionally used computers for, it seems that most people nowadays generally just use their phone. Usually when anyone decides to use an actual computer for something, it’s because they have a task that requires them to use some specific piece of software, and that software is unfortunately often only available on Windows/macOS.