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[–] ichlibejuice 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

i recently purchased a $40,000 tektronix oscilloscope over keysight's competitive equivalent because the tek scope had a Linux-based OS and the keysight didn't.

never buy lab equipment that runs on windows. unreliable, slow garbage. all of it.

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[–] Lucretius 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

While I don’t have any data in this regard, I think that an important part of those making the transition to Linux are power users, as beginners would rather stick with Windows for the familiar experience.

I agree. I stuck with Windows as long as I could, but once the a-volitional updates became the norm, it was a bridge too far.

For years before that, it had been necessary to uninstall, sabotage, bypass, or disable the layers of crapware and protect-the-user-from-himself settings that windows shipped with. It didn't require much skill to do this, because under the crapware, the core of the Windows was still a power user's OS, and there were plenty of hacker tools and tweekers to help.

When Win8.x came out, MS got it in their heads that they wanted to redesign the way people interacted with their machines. And we, the power user community, responded as we always had: with a bevy of tools, and hacks, and bypasses to redesign it right back. But this time was different because this time it was backed by a change in the MS Windows business model, one they wouldn't back out of: Windows as a Service. That's really what Win10 is, not an attack on the Desktop so much as an attack on Local Computing. It is therefore necessarily an attack on user control which has, as its root, physical control and ownership of the hardware itself. A-volitional updating is one form this usurpation of user control takes… the user installs a feature bypass, like a start menu replacement, and the next update, which can not br avoided, uninstalls it.

To mainstream users, very little is changed. But to the power user, Windows had been broken out of the box for DECADES… taking away our ability to hack (fix) the system made EVERYTHING broken all at once.

5 years ago I moved to Linux Mint. Yesterday, I switched to Manjaro.

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[–] Wahaha 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Wondering if there really is such a trend and what the exact numbers are. It's hard to believe Windows users finally wisening up.

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[–] user9713 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

This is all you need to know about who's migrating

Some of those who switched to Linux say they’ve had enough in the Windows world and switching to an open-source platform guarantees more transparency, improved security, and so much more.

^ lol no normie cares about that.

...those making the transition to Linux are power users, as beginners would rather stick with Windows for the familiar experience.

There we go: power users (or people who don't mind getting their hands a bit dirty).

I'm rooting for Linux, and I think the best way forward is for companies, like Valve and AMD, to continue investing in it. And these companies have a lot of incentive to do so because there's a clear divide between them and their competitors (Microsoft / Intel / nVidia). This is especially true for AMD.

But I don't think it's quite there, yet. And we need to see a lot more investment. Right now, Valve has a gaming OS, but nothing that clearly replaces Windows (at least the last time I checked, Valve OS behaves more like an XBOX or PS4 OS).

I can also see other companies like Mozilla, Opera, and Brave joining the fight because of Chromium (Mozilla because it's a competitor to Google, but Brave / Opera because Google is making it so that certain features only work on Chrome, despite Brave / Opera being built on Chromium).

I'm really hoping that we see these companies working together and they come out on top.

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[–] Wahaha 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I never thought of Mozilla (Firefox) to be a competitor of Google (Chrome). They way I see their relationship, Mozilla is an employee of Google. Last time I checked pretty much all the money Firefox earns is paid by Google and if you see them in that kind of relationship, all the bad decisions that made Firefox worse with every new version since the release of Chrome make a lot more sense.

Opera was sold to the Chinese, wasn't it? I'm not expecting much of that brand anymore.