I'm commenting from Arch Linux. I made the switch two months ago because I'm fed up with M$. What held me back for years was that I like gaming but thanks to Valve/Steam gaming gets better on Linux on a daily basis.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love Linux, but in reality it still doesn't support enough of the software people use. I own a bunch of audio software, and don't feel like running it on wine or something like that.

Also, even the easiest Linux distros will eventually have an issue that forces you into to using a shell of some sort.. I know a lot of people who would not be able to handle that. Also it can be a massive time commitment for troubleshooting.

Sadly Windows and macOS are (more) reliable

[–] semblanceto@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MacOS is built on BSD, which is like Linux but more arcane (sort of). (Edit: also the Android kernel is a Linux kernel). If you don't find yourself using the shell in MacOS (or Android), it's because they've done the work to make it unnecessary. The command line is still there, and can still be used to fix (or cause) problems.

The companies developing your audio software release it for Windows or Mac because that's what the users are running. If the majority of their users were running Linux, they would be releasing Linux binaries.

As for being more reliable... it depends on your use case. Around 79% of all publicly accessible servers on the internet run something Unix-like, with about 38% of the total being Linux. Windows is used for about 21%. In my sysadmin work, I use Windows when it's mandated by the software (again, because the developers chose to release for Windows only, not because the software is fundamentally tied to it), and Linux everywhere else. Reliability is a big part of that decision.

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