Because I use free BSD

I do use Linux 🐧

Because it's GNU/Linux 🧔‍♀️

too hard to find pirated games, i'll switch when my mathusalem PC finally decides to break (and by then i hope to have some more coin, PCs really became expensive in the last six yeas!!!!)

I keep trying Linux for a week or so at a time, but every time I do, I just can't do what I want on it. It lacks software like Playnite - a FOSS game launcher that lets me manage my collection of games across different platforms. Discord on it doesn't support screen audio when screen sharing, and the app that enables it is finicky at best. I end up spending more time in my terminal than doing browsing, playing games, etc, like I'd like to be doing. I don't hate Linux. I love the idea of Linux, but in practice... I just have a really hard time enjoying my time on my computer with it.

I just came off running Nobara for 2 days then moving because of compatibility issues and its UI feeling slow, then I ran Mint for another 5 days. I hope one day Linux can be what I want from my PC.

Many people don't use it because it doesn't come store bought..

I have a bit of everything at home. A windows PC, a mac laptop, a couple of linux boxes to run media servers etc

I use linux btw.

Presently, I use Linux regularly (desktop, servers, etc.) I love it and prefer it, and all the games I play run on it. There are a few devices I don't use it on yet:

• Work laptop runs Windows :(
• Got a Macbook Pro for a good price. (Was MacOS curious for awhile, hadn't used it since MacOS 9)
• Mobile phones run Android and iOS. (Linux on mobile is not good yet)
• Windows dualboot just in case I want to use it for something

I've installed Linux Mint (w/ Cinnamon desktop) recently in a workplace for teenage students school/office work on an old hardware. However, they did not accept it because it did not have a Microsoft Word but a LibreOffice Writer. Apparently, LibreOffice was too confusing for them so they just switched back to Win.

I daily drive linux on the laptop i use the most. All servers are linux. Other than that, my gaming rig is still on windows, work laptop is macOS. Im a tinkerer, so playing with different OSes is fun to me

easier, less hassle 🤷‍♀️

I use it one everything except my word-provided laptop. I would use it there too, but our IT department is too Windows-brained to convince them otherwise.

Linux guy here, there is a shrinking list of things that I can't do with Linux. That's when I spin up quick Windows 10 VM, do the task, and delete. Hasn't come up in over 15 months.

Using Linux exclusively in private and almost exclusively for work for 24 years and counting ...

I do use Arch Linux and Android Linux

I use Linux but my family computer is on windows because of office

Also, on my work computer is on windows because it is given by the company and I needed it to work immediately. I am allowed to change it tho. Do you know how well is Microsoft Teams working ? It is the only microsoft software that I need to work perfectely for my job. I would prefer the disponibility indicator to work for example

I use linux at home (with bottles for games) and windows at work, because it's not my choice. Btw, at work I use windows only to run wsl2

i have, off and on over the past 23 years but i ultimately end up running windows primarily because of games or some other software or hardware incompatibility

nearly 100% of my work is in Windows-native applications (Adobe suite, VizRT, Cinema4D) and that's not likely to change

I keep a windows computer exclusively for gaming. I know you can play games on gnu/linux but I have lots of peripherals, VR headset, wheel, pedals, joysticks, rudder, buttons boxes,... I don't have the courage to even try to see if everything will be compatible and correctly recognized in games. For everything else I stick to gnu/linux.

I do. And windows. And android. And OSX

I use the right tool for the right job. I use macOS for a friendly desktop, I use Windows for gaming, I use Linux for hosting, I use Xen to run virtual machines of the above.

Linux is a tool it's a great tool but it's not the only tool

I use Linux on my personal laptop, my work laptop is a Mac, but my desktop (main computer) is still Windows largely cause of video games. Lot of the games I like to play don't work or require more tweaking than I'm willing to invest to get them running on Linux. I also play flight sim and racing sim games with peripherals a lot, and if the game support on Linux seems bad, the support for those peripherals is even worse lol.

Work computers are windows, I would never demean myself like that by choice.

The only reasons to use windows (other than force or coercion) that I'm even aware of is adobe shit and multiplayer games with kernel level anticheats. Adobe could literally just get good, that is 100% their fault, though kernel level anticheat would never be popular on linux I'd bet.

I do, but I think most people don't think that they can replace the software they're using on their devices. Or in other words - people buy consumer electronics to use it as is and they generally don't install OSes themselves.