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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by throw748494 on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:06AM (#45626676)
>People usually stick to whatever they learned and played with during childhood

Any source for this? I grown on Atari, DOS and Windows. Most kids today are on mobile or consoles.

Linux does not need advertising, it is by far the best option from point of hardware selection, development, gaming and ease of use.

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by debugnik on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:14AM (#45626726)
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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by velcrovan on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:28AM (#45626824)
I think nerds like us are more likely to experiment and make occasional drastic changes to our computing setup. And in my case I grew up during a time when there was a lot of change in the desktop OS landscape, so sticking with one OS from my childhood to adulthood wasn’t really possible (otherwise I’d still be on Microsoft BASIC and OS-9).

Familiarity and “just-workitude” really are by far the most important factors for people picking OSs, and these days it’s possible to stick with one platform for decades.

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by mvdtnz on Saturday October 18, 2025 @01:36PM (#45629032)
> Linux does not need advertising, it is by far the best option from point of hardware selection, development, gaming and ease of use.

Gaming? No. Hardware selection? Lol absolutely not.

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