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Linux vs Windows

It's Winux and Lindows.

Maybe READ UP ON THINGS before you start posting like a stampeding buffalo horde incarnate?
Guys more people like windows but less people like linux but windows poeple u gotta go to the feud and vote
Windows 10 is the most infuriating operating system I've ever used. Ads, default tracking, horrible: UX, search, settings, etc. It's basically malware. I've tried it four times now—checking if they improved things—and always reverted back to Windows 7. Last time I didn't even bother installing Windows 10 and just watched a recent review; guess what, it's gotten worse.

Conversely, xubuntu.org is the best operating system I ever used. Super fast and everything just works.
Voted for linux. I'm on a linux machine right now. Since 1999: that is 20 years of linux usage. The first 10, I agree with the comments above, it was difficult, drivers problems, configuration problems, printer problems, etc., etc.

But today, nah... It installs smoothly, it works out of the box, great support from the community, etc. I use DEBIAN, not one of the easiest. But if you go MINT or UBUNTU, you are in for a good treat.

But the real advantage is not that it is FREE. No no... And talking about disadvantages, doesn't matter if some awkward piece of hardware doesn't work out of the box. This is missing the point. The REAL advantage that triumphs all else is the fact that it is no "bloated" software. Mind you, open source is not just that the software is free and available. It is that the real code is out there to be read and suffer the scrutiny of A LOT OF really smart coders that puts their 2 cents to guarantee that they (and you as consequence) are using the best software, without spyware, without data-collection and privacy concerns.

There is no such thing as "almost open". You can't serve two masters. I used to teach OS in the University (I'm a professor), and it is impractical to teach about a source code that you have no access. Bear in mind that all moves windows do towards open source until now is from only one direction. They, for example, will never allow ".exe" files to run on linux, to cite one goal for another direction. But they allow and now incentive ".a" or ".bin" (technically ELF executables) to run on its sublinux system now. It is a trap, and they just want the linux community to divide and give them salary-free workload.

I'm sad when I see a beautiful, almost perfect, open source project that migrates to windows (see GIMP for example). The coordinators of such projects believe they are doing something good, but they are just playing into Windows game and emptying/diminishing the urge for people to really migrate from proprietary software to a free, democratic space.

I do understand the role of Windows in our society. Maybe some enterprises prefer it, and the support that comes with it. But for a desktop user that sometimes use pirate windows, and never use the official support, I don't get it. They would be far off using linux and helping improving linux and being part of the open source community. Windows got a free pass in a lot of things (actually, they paid the pass with strategic marketing that is not always fair, you see. That includes the proprietary drivers licenses that hurts linux).

Anyway, I will not only vote for linux, but I will also ask you to think about it and change your vote. ;)
ill be honest im a kid and have no idea what linux is xD 🤣👌
@Komokid
Linux is like chess, and Windows 10 is like playing correspondence tic-tac-toe by morse code through a fax machine that jams on the most inconvenient moments.

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