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I know I know, a lot of people think XP rocked, but it was really just 2000 with a fugly skin and more crap.
Windows 2000 was peak desktop OS, and no one can convince me otherwise.
Arch Linux + XFCE, a distant second.
> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be. And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system. They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.
I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.
Reading the comments made me want to check the Steam Hardware Survey [0]. Some quick facts (Dec 2025 -> Jan 2026): - Windows 10 gained more users than Windows 11 :D - Linux lost users :( [0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)
Debian testing is rolling release. More akin to Arch or Gentoo really.
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Why is it immature to hold decision makers responsible for their decisions?
How do you answer questions like "how are other people getting their work done on Windows?" How much leverage do you expect the average white collar worker to have?
> I'm still a Windows guy, and I always will be. And this is exactly why Microsoft can get away with a buggy mess of a user hostile operating system. They only have an incentive to make a good OS if people are willing to leave when it’s a bad one.
I will say, for anybody reading and finds it in any way uplifting, I have been a Windows user for 30 years, been a .net developer for 5 years at one point, groaned at how bad the 'Linux desktop' always was, but this year I finally switched to using Linux instead of Windows and I think it's because the inflexion point is starting to hit more of the masses.
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I think saying "I'm a _______ guy" with any brand or company filling that blank can be a big problem. Most companies are there to make money and loyalty is often a one way street. From my view it is more productive to find out what you like about something and always be open to maybe finding someone else who can deliver on that. And sometimes things that we thought were essential are not. You might even find somethin…
What about "I'm a Linux guy?" I don't pay any company for my Linux OSes. My favorites are nonprofits and mostly interchangeable.
Much like Ethernet, this has happened several times but the replacement was also called Linux.
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"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.
Yeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anything. I never end up doing, because things are usually not better, but maybe 1/100 times something is better, and then I switch. Initially did that around Ubuntu 9.10 before, and I'll switch away from Arch in a heartbeat if anything better comes around. Edit: I r…
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Right. My current computer has Windows OS at the moment.
I wonder when they'll rebrand it as Copilot Agentic OS. It seems no brand of theirs is sacred enough to not be replaced with Copilot.