For development, Linux is soooo nice. But when I want to play games, anticheats don't tend to be happy running under wine. X11 is also ancient garbage, and Wayland is just not ready.

So instead, I run windows. When I need to do Linux stuff, I use WSL. VSCode lets me run it under WSL as if it were running on Linux directly, and very few of the things I've used under WSL have complained about it.

As soon as Wayland is actually ready, and companies stop their anticheats from getting mad under wine, I will switch back over.

I use Linux at work regularly, and often prefer Linux and suggest Linux for work projects. It's an extremely capable OS for infrastructure and embedded applications. It's a pain as a desktop though. It's just clunkier and harder to do things. Intermediate level configuration tasks which you can do with one dialog in Windows require editing shell scripts and decoding APIs designed by mathematicians in the 70's on Linux. It's just too much when I want to relax after work.

Also I like gaming, and gaming through a compatibility layer like Wine is always annoying. I don't want launching a new game to be a project in itself.

I only use my machine for work and I'm required to use Windows 11. I wish I'd gotten into Linux when I was younger and computers were still fun but I've come to hate this little electronic box.

Gaming and troubleshooting knowledge. I make my living using my computers, and if something goes wrong and I can't fix it on the spot, i'm screwed.

Last time I tried a dual boot, my rig had a wifi dongle that took me about a month to get working. It was great for a time, then all of the sudden it stopped and I couldn't get it back. Terminal entry stuff should be a rarity too, I'm not afraid to go into it or Windows power shell but it has its own language and I don't have time to teach myself. It seemed like every time I tried to do something, it NEVER produced the result other people were getting, and then I couldn't find the error that I was getting.

I want to switch quite badlly tbh, but I really do need it to be as simple and reliable as Android. Once my home server is built, I'm loading a Linux distro on it to start, then I'll add a dual boot to my main rig.

RGB lightining and Valorant.

Also I would really love an immutable kde distro that is very up to date.

I can barely manage to do the dishes most of the time and you expect me to learn a new OS?

I have a bad history with Linux, but in the future I plan to conquer this weird dimension as the current one (windows) is going to shit

My desktop’s a many-hats workstation. Half of it I could easily do in Linux using the software I use now, half of it I can’t. Do work with it a lot through WSL2 and our servers though.

And well, my laptop’s an M1 MacBook. It has its own issues. :P

Main issue on the desktop side though is not having the Adobe Suite, love em or hate em it’s what we use. And, I personally use every major bit of it a lot, and then also do collaborative work with it.

I've used Linux and simply had no use for it. My DAW of choice is Ableton Live and there's no Linux version. I tried running it through windows emulators but that was just finicky. The only big name DAW I know about that has a Linux version is Reaper, which is fine, but I'm not that great with Reaper and the stock fx aren't great. I don't know of any free software style DAWs for Linux that would work with vsts and ASIO.

I did use Ubuntu on a Chromebook for a long time when I was trying to learn more coding, but then I figured out I don't enjoy coding. That's probably my main reason for disliking Linux. I don't wanna mess around in the guts of code, it's tedious and uninteresting to me. I just want it to work already.

I think an overlooked potential userbase for linux is older people who are still on windows XP. I have a few family members on manjaro mate (I know there are better distros, but it's what I use personally) which is overall more familiar to them than newer windows versions would be. Get it set up with regular BTRFS snapshots and a grub hook, and you can talk them through rolling something back easily.

I feel like I'll need to switch to linux at some point whether I want to or not, since the assholes at microsoft seem to want to turn Windows into a subscription service, but for now windows is fine and I'm scared of fucking up my computer trying to figure out how to get linux going.

I'm afraid of messing up a dual boot install

Because “computers” isnt a hobby for me

Gaming. For anything work/school related I'll use a vm or ssh into the school labs if i think the task will be easier on linux

I do use Linux, but it isn't quite there with gaming (although it is getting there). That is the only thing keeping me on windows 10 on the desktop. Every other kernel in my household is Linux.

I hate windows 11, so I will be making the full switch soon I guess.

I hate how almost all system programs have weird names/icons. KDE, why is a file explorer named Dolphin?? It has zero link to files to me. And that goes for a lot of default programs making it unintuitive to use.

Windows uses clear names for everything, why can't Linux do the same? Or at least, let me rename Dolphin (and others) to a name that makes sense. But that appears to be impossible too.

The file system. I can't touch that mess. And because I know Linux (Unix) will never adopt the windows file structure. I have given up on the idea of switching to linux, I am too attached to my partitions

Plus there are no professional grade CAD software for linux

I got a new laptop recently and decided to try Linux again. That being said, I ended up jumping into Fedora Sericea to experiment with both the immutable image thing and to try i3/Sway, so we'll see how that goes

I mainly use my pc to play games, maybe 90% works fine but that 10% is still quite a lot. Also, even if the games themselves work sometimes extra tools (like overlays) around them don't, which is the case for my main game.

Lastly I have struggled with X11 in the past so much with my multiple different resolution and refresh rate monitors working, and it doesn't seem like Wayland is there yet either.

I look forward to these things being ironed out, it has come a very long way in the past few years, I do believe a couple more and I'll be able to switch back to Linux.

I gave it a go and ended up switching back to Windows. While I liked it overall even if aspects of it were pretty annoying, I need Google Drive to function and sync my files locally for work. There's no native client and none of the third party ones worked like they were supposed to. I could have dual booted, I guess, but nah

tried it and it fucked my computer up

I have decisional anxiety and every time I go to try and pick a version to install I get recommend like 5 different builds, get intimidated, and fall back to my safe space

I have tried many, many times in the past, and intend to try again in my next build this next summer. However, Linux just did not work for me.

Biggest issue for me is quite literally any use of terminal is too much use of terminal. If I have to open up terminal at all, windows immediately becomes the preferred OS. I don’t care how easy it is to copy / paste some lines of text that someone else wrote (I have no idea what those commands I’m pasting in do), I just do not ever want to open a terminal.

I have a steam deck too, and I somewhat enjoyed using it as a desktop with a dock. It seems to run fine! However, I have some issues with apps not updating and whatnot.

Also, there’s just the issue of learning a whole new os. I did it 5 years ago when I got a new job and it came with a MacBook, and now I honestly love Mac OS. Way better than windows imo, which is promising for me to like a Linux distribution as learning wasn’t so hard!