Previous: >>107542799Help an anon out with his graduation thesis by answering the survey made with Tally.https://tally.so/r/pbr2qqFigured it'd be better this way instead, but do feel free to lemme know your thoughts in this thread as well.
The Core Barrier Constructs section seems aimed at people who haven't already switched. I put everything as neutral because I have known what to expect for a long time.
>>107555115Responded on the form.Cool that you're doing this research. Hope it goes well. I've switched and while I still keep W11 installed I haven't used it for much for this year. My work laptop is a Mac too so I'm an OS idort.Overall I've enjoyed using Linux the most and find it frequently has the most technically accurate and detailed use base. So if ever things go wrong unexpectedly, there's often that there's a lot of good help on the Internet
>>107555115Fuck you, go advertise somewhere else.
>>107555115Support for Windows 7 stopped and Windows 10 was pure cancer.
>>107555115I don't like how, after Windows 7, Microsoft started adding features that only get in the way and/or have potential to harm the user, like Recall, Cortana, telemetry, forced updates, ads, badly unoptimized apps, etc.Linux has its problems, but I hope it becomes a viable competitor that makes Microsoft take the desktop seriously again.
>>107555115I have one (1) reason I stay on windows, which is that I play teamfight tactics. It has kernel anti cheat that doesn't support Linux. I don't want to dual boot because that's much more of a PITA than people make it sound>inb4 just don't play itBut i like that game
>>107555115>It will be difficult for non-technical users like me to find no one here is a "non-technical user"the survey is stupid
>>107556240hey, thanks for pointing that out, I will omit the "for me" part
>>107556293the whole survey is suffering from the same thing.do you want to know why i switched to linux from windows, 10 years ago, when i did it? reframe all the questions then. or if youre literally just looking for people who jumped ship in the last month, make that known so i wouldnt have wasted my time.
>>107556311It’s not a “recent switchers only” survey, and it doesn’t assume people are non-technical anymore, which I'm grateful to you to for.Long-term switchers are still valid respondents because the study is about barriers and motivations around making the switch, not just the moment it happened. People like you can speak to what pushed you to switch, what frictions mattered, and what stuck long-term.But I’m not going to reframe the entire survey over a wording issue.
>>107555115I ain't doing no survey, but to answer your question: It was seeing Windows continue to get worse with no end in sight. Windows 7 was really the last great Windows OS. I skipped 8 and went to 10. 10 was usable, for the most part. But Microsoft kept fucking with things and you had set registry keys to fix it, and then a few updates later they would change the keys you'd need to set. The final straw was the release of 11 and how much worse it seemed then even 10. At that time I started to make a real effort to switch to Linux. I knew Microsoft was eventually going to force the switch and I didn't want to be caught with my pants down when it happened.I had used Linux previously for random projects but never seriously as my main desktop. In the past I had used a combination of Debian and LXQT. I liked LXQT, but wanted a few more features for my main desktop and so went for Debian with KDE. My first attempt to switch did not go well. It was a stuttery mess that I had tried to troubleshoot for a few weeks before giving up and returning to Windows 10. This was likely due to a combination of Debian's old drivers and the GTX 1080 I had at the time. A few months later I tried again with KDE Neon, because I figured if any distro would give me a good experience with KDE, it would be their own. And it was great, and I still run KDE Neon now. I will say KDE 6 is perhaps not as polished as 5 was, but I still do like KDE.
>>107555312Indeed, spend some dollars
>>107557751sorry for being a poor 3rd world pleb just trying to graduate from an engineering uni, I'll consider it tho
>>107555115Fuck you pay me
>>107556043>PITAIt really is only a pain on initial setup. Then it works exactly the same as single boot, except with a menu.
>>107555115not clicking your linkI was already a part timer when microshart started force upgrading people from win 7 to 10, so going linux only was the only path left, and I'm glad I don't have to put up with their bullshit anymore
>>107556503>>107558682you obviously have a lot to say, why don't you answer the survey?
What magic do I need to perform to get the silent hill 2 remake to play on Linux without it chugging frames?I have gentoo and proton working just fine every other game is perfect. It's a ThinkPad p16 with 128gb of DDR5 and an Nvidia ampere GPU with 12 gb of vram so I really don't understand why this one game can't play.What sort of ungodly GPU does one need to play this game?
>>107555115I got tired of bullshit updates that reboot my PC while I'm working on something and lose work in progress. Windows 10 seemed like a huge mess anyway with its two control panels.
Using windows felt like interacting with an indian person and i HATE indian people
>>107555115Pure autism, which GNOME almost solves, but not all their shit is GTK4 yet.
>>107558055I did the survey because I felt sorry for you. I'm in the same boat, but for a different topic.Good luck with your exams.
>>107555115sent :6)
>>107555115people here are so rude for no good reason, i don't know what motivates them but it's very jarring. anyway, i filled out your survey, gl anon
>>107555115I never "switched", I use linux and windows both. Though I do spend more of my time in Linux. I boot into whatever I need for the task. I'm not all that worried about OS wars etc.
>>107558613NTA, but the pain (for me) is not the setup, but having to reboot, and losing the state of your workspace. Yes, your browser can remember your opened sites, KDE can be set up to put application windows in specific place/dimension etc. on launch, but it's never easier than just starting the application you want. This was a major pain point on my last job, where everything was Linux, except a few terrible apps to configure motor-controllers and embedded BMS systems. I tried virtualising it, but it never worked properly.First time I dabbled with Linux was around 1999, and I started taking it seriously in 2004 and my gateway drug was Gentoo. So I kind of started learning on hard mode (LFS is hard+permadeath). But it wasn't until 5-ish years ago I switched my main desktop to Linux (Debian), because Steam/Proton/Wine had gotten good enough that it just worked most of the time, and when it doesn't I can leverage >20 years of experience and fix it myself usually. And as great as Proton/Wine is, it's not something Joe Random can or should mess with when it breaks. Linux takes the guard rails off your OS, and gives you .50 cal foot guns. That's what's great about it, and also the biggest issue with mainstream adoption.</blog>
>>107555115Thanks for the dolphin porn (I did the survey). I think another good question would be "For how long did you use Windows?" for those who did switch over to Linux.Anyway, I actually never used Windows that much since I didn't have my own PC back then, so my own experience with it was using it at school and on friends computers (mostly XP). When I finally got my own, I installed Ubuntu "as a joke", but I ended up liking it enough to use it for a while.I then switched to an Arch-based OS because that's what the kewl kidz use. I don't have a strong personal opinion on Windows because I myself didn't use it that much (at least not when it "got bad"), but looking at it now I do understand why people dislike it. What I don't understand is when Window users shame Linux ones for doing things they themselves do.They'll say they hate tinkering, but will tinker with Windows to improve or "fix" it. They'll say Windows "just works" but complain about an update breaking everything. They'll say Linux can't be used for real work, but all they do is play videogames and browse the web. This is a generalization but you get the idea. I think Linux has been a viable option for a while, and aside from hardware issues, people don't want to use it either because of existing pre-conceptions, or simply due to Stockholm syndrome.
>>107555115Choice is good. Free is good.
>>1075588632nd anon here, I said all I wanted to say without powerleveling and I still don't trust your link
>>107555115win 10 constantly shitting itself thanks to impromptu updates
>>107555115i was gonna drop shitblows from the moment they added spyware you cant turn off inside the stock system.but gaming and just the hassle stopped me from exploring alternative OSs. then one day i got a very cheap secondary laptop just to keep in my car for flashing/doing stuff with fpv drones (before this i only had a desktop) so i could experiment with stuff without having to worry about bricking my main OS install and a week later i dropped windows on my desktop. installed something better on my main ssd and kept windows on a secondary in case i need it but ended up never launching windows again.
Windows is becoming more and more of a salesfront for O365 and Azure services, so that was enough of a reason for me to switch. I've been some flavor of Windows Sysadmin/engineer for my entire career.
>>107555115what are you even asking here?benefits of using linux after switching?benefits of how an ideal OS should be?and the rows all use comparative language. "Greater user control and autonomy" Greater than what? also, the options to choose from go from "not beneficial" to "very beneficial" instead of "not important" to "very important" it looks like you're trying to say "linux is very beneficial in these 6 ways. rate how beneficial they have been for you" which would destroy all neutralityi guess i'll interpret it as "how beneficial would you rate these qualities in an OS"?please use human language and ask specific questions
