6 Reasons Why People Have to Use Windows

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1. For most people (80%-90%) who just need PC for browsing the web, emails photos & some games can switch to Linux. It's much easier nowadays than it was 10 years ago

2. Linux runs on Surface…

3. Old Lenovo T-500 laptop or newest Ryzen desktop – both running GNU Linux quite happily. Yup definitely good hardware support.

4. Steam and full hardware compatibility Linux will never have that unless devs make it happen. I hate windows but that’s why I have it on my 1/3 m.2s I got Linux. Mac OS and windows on 3 separate m.2 drives

5. RE: CAD: NX has a Linux version. Solidworks and Creo don't, but NX does.

6. QuickBooks.
   If the community solved this the rest of the entire computer world would follow.

7. I feel like with the advent of Chrome OS and macOS taking stage and with younger people being more familiar with software from Apple and Google, it is about time that Windows will start to decline against these other players in the OS market which will be great.

8. i kinda lucked out on adobe because i had learned fireworks which was discontinued and newer formats/vectors didn't work

9. I have used both Linux and Windows. Linux is full of bugs. I have probably ran into more issues with Linux than I have Windows. Would I use Windows over Linux because of that 1 problem? No. Because I can always find a way around the bug and get it to work somewhat reliably.

10. I know you can use different types of programs instead of Adobe and Photoshop essentially. but so couldn’t and wouldn’t jump to something like GIMP, especially for my professional work. There’s so many things you can do (in-depth) in Photoshop. And a lot of features only Photoshop do really well. So when I some day going to jump from macOS to Linux, i need to have a machine just for work, I think.

11. Here in Brazil the web-bank systems were ment to work only with windows. Even my old (not at the time) iMac had problems with that.
    And worst, there were no problem at all… they just manage to find out what system I was using, and blocked it.
    Same they use to do with internet. Once we try to hire a web provider, they said no suport or instalation for MAC. So my nephew hire the internet for his laptop and I showed the technician how to set this up on mac. Cable or WiFi, just turn on the computer. That`s it. He was thrilled with it. 🙂

12. 3:29 well….. i use CAD on my macbook and… macOS is unix base like linux so….. i bypass you, hhahahha (kappa).

13. No- there is only ONE legitimate REASON why one would HAVE to run Windows– and that is it's REQUIRED FOR YOUR JOB— anything else– is a CROCK and not required.

14. In general – if something does not work you have to know everything to do anything. Especially on old hardware. Hey – if something runs Windows XP then it should run lightweight Linux distributions without problems. Moreover – if you don't speak English – you are screwed.

15. I blame Nvidia, it's graphics drivers are the worst on Linux.

16. I think the problem with hardware compatibility is for NVIDIA graphics only.
    Samw with bugs. A friend of mine had to reinstall Ubuntu because Ubuntu destroyed itself while trying to install NVIDIA graphics.

17. I'd even go as far to argue that if you have a specific piece of software that isn't compatible that it would be smarter to use a virtual machine to run that specific piece of hardware. I've run gpu passthrough on a kvm. benchmarks are within margin of error from native hardware. Historically using windows i would do a fresh install every year. It would be night and day performance differences. Given the nature of windows slowing down and getting bloated and nasty isolating it for a specific piece of software will retain that freshness longer and refreshing it when it does need it will be obviously a piece of cake.

18. have the surface pro 7 here, it ran arch(till I decided i was to noob) and is about to get mint.
    you have to unlock the secure boot but it is bild into the bios so it aint hard just anoing with the red bar ontop on startup

19. Every linux distro i've tried recognised my onboard lan port immediately. Windows still can't find the driver (which has been hosted online by the manufacturer since day one) and even goes so far as to occasionally remove it causing my internet to fail. Even windows knows the only way to keep microsoft from ruining your setup is by unplugging from the internet…

20. Dolby and DTS in Hulu & Netflix

21. Jokes on you, I find GIMP more suitable to my needs then adobe Photoshop(I have used adobe for 1.5yo)

22. i can just hope that this anti cheat problem isnt a problem after steam deck comes out

23. Amazon Prime Video limits streaming to SD resolution, not even 720p. Says so on their website too. HD supported on only Windows and Mac on desktop.

24. The only reason I use Windows is because the secure cloud we use at work will only run on Windows and iMac. Since lockdown I've been using my personal Windows laptop at home. I'm not using my iMac with the cloud and it won't load on Linux or Android. Windows laptops are cheap as well for working tethered in my makeshift studio.

25. Steamworks now has the Denuvo Anti-cheat which allows these games to now run.

26. I'm a software engineer. I can use 3 OSs, 5 programmining languages, 5 ides and a huge amount of different libraries and frameworks. These are selected to get the job done at the time. Why do creative people pigeon hole themselves with a single pice of software? I wonder how much Microsoft "pays" these big software vendors NOT to produce a Linux version.

27. After school where I apparently need it for my planned 9-5, I'm going to finish setting up my new pc and use it that new vm a lot in Linux. I am running into trouble with my language I'm developing, on Linux, but hopefully it'll be solved soon. It seems to be a problem with string class from c++.

28. I stick with mint it stays out of my way.

29. Too much NyQuil?

30. Linux have no advertisement and have no marketing. Make Linux 25$ , advertize it and linux will kill windows. You know why Microsoft supports Linux? Because Microsoft scared to loose monopoly if someone other will support Linux by money. And pls stopp talking just like you dont know whats goin on in reality CHris.

31. DAWs and NLEs also; you could go
    Mac of course for those, but that‘s just a hardware/pricing prison instead.

32. To be fair, good luck installing google-chrome in ubuntu based bs.

33. Dont forget printer

34. You forgot MS Office. Yes I know there are free office solutions on Linux and that you can even run older versions. And taht there is office 365. But that's not how it works. Often customers, clients or employer will demand compatibility. They want an Excel file in a certain format to work with their systems from you. Or in ym case, I am working as a book editor. And I know I should use LateX but my (pretty big) publisher demands the latest version of MS Word for PC (which are then converted into pdf) and the Texts I work with are from hundreds of authors using dozens of versions of MS-Word. I'd be in utter hell if I tried any Openoffice branch or converting stuff to LateX and back.
    MS office is a bit of an industry standard and if you can't get away with the online version that has fewer features and a massive privacy problem. Actually, don't EVER use MS Office online!! Don't!

35. Locked bios on acer. Its not funny.

36. FreeCAD

37. 2099 Hahahha

38. ok make a video on setup g29 racing wheel on pop os this is only thing stopping me from going to Linux

39. Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy Book 10.6 … tried Ubuntu on the machine and didn't had wifi, touch wasn't working and the keyboard was buggy …. should I try another distro?

40. With Windows I'm swearing at the computer, with Linux I'm swearing at myself 🤣

41. I have a HP whose bios is telling me that Windows 8.1 is installed. There's no Microsoft on that machine and I don't know how to change that but it doesn't seem to affect Linux.

42. Well, I cant use dolby atmos in linux, I like chrome, but i have issues with account sync, Nvidia optimus CANT work on linux, I'm on laptop and some apps dont scale so the text is tiny, my trackpad stops working in random times and needs restart to fix. So since I have all of those fixed on windows without even doing anything, how am I supposed to switch on linux? The app developers don't want linux to grow yet, otherwise its a way better OS than windows. For easy tasks, linux needs extra steps while windows does everything automatically (background), that cant ever make non-pc people switch to linux.

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