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>>> Why would they switch to Windows?

What I love with my Linux is the total control I have over it. I can customize many things, have my own desktop environment while leaving other members of the family with KDE. I can update what I want, install apps with "aptitude" super easily and nobody ever asks me for my position, my age, phone number or email. Life is sooo quiet on my Linux.

(Linux "breaks" (more exactly, userland stuff) more often than windows, but when it breaks I can do something about it and learn a thing or two while I fix it).

Plus the community is vibrant.

I'm lovin' it :-)



To be fair, Linux the kernel almost never breaks userland stuff. That's the fault of Linux distributions (and glibc), and Linus has bitched them out over it several times, not that they listen.


You're right. I meant that Linux kernel seems super solid to me but applications running on Linux are not always that stable.




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