Linux

I did a wireshark on bloatware windows in idle and it's nope.

What makes you not want to use Linux anymore

Your question is malformed because even the odd troubles of Linux these days are absolutely nothing compared to the hoops I used to go through to try to get a Kernel built for my hardware 25 years ago. The occasional non-working speaker or other config issue is tiny. It doesn't even register as a problem.

Compare that to the shit show that is Windows? Fuck that OS. I try not to be very vocal when I meet people about it, but Windows just won't be a choice for me. I've turned down jobs because it would move me to a Windows house for tools. It's not worth living in that kind of hellhole UI design and wrestling with whatever enshittification MSFT has driven down your crop with the latest updates. I have a life to live and wrestling with my OS isn't what I'm going to spend it doing.

I don't know much about the current MacOS environment these days. I stopped in the OSX 10.4 days. I just don't have the hardware to consider it, so no real opinion.

So... your question is malformed because it's not even worth considering and I've got a quarter century of experience to back that one up.

I have a small, high DPI, laptop screen (<14") and I haven't been able to get all or even most of the software I use to scale properly. It always looks weird and eye strain is a real worry for me, so until this problem is solved I'll be a casual

Nothing. Not even Wayland and Systemd will force me off of Linux.

Having to fiddle with some games, I need my DLSS. I'mnin this for live tho.

The only thing that drives me nuts on a regular basis is the lack of fully functional Microsoft apps. Specifically Teams and Outlook. Unfortunately I work with Microsoft shops constantly and need those two apps. Outlook PWA has issues and freezes constantly. Teams PWA just doesn't do notifications.

That's it.

But Windows blows and Macs are just too damned expensive.

Using Widows on my private rig now to play Fortnite with my son after ~15 years on Linux only. Also getting a MacBook Pro at work now, since I have to use Zoom and stuff like that everyday. Having no hardware acceleration on Linux is a no-go. This is not Linux' fault though. Also I'm old enough to just use the right tool for a job.

I already have a 60+ hour per week job. I don't need a second one, endlessly diagnosing why the simplest of tasks are constantly breaking.

Self-hatred.

Hardware. I do all my work on a laptop and those Apple M series processors have been amazing for performance and battery life. I’ll stick with a Mac until those Qualcomm X Elite CPUs start getting shipped in Windows laptops next year. After using this Mac for the past year, I think I prefer Windows and WSL over MacOS or Linux. This whole post only applies to laptops though; Linux on desktop and servers for life.

Raytracing performance. Though once I get my fill of cyberpunk that will fade.

The ease of being able to bork stuff when installing packages. I've borked my ability to run games through proton in some way. Between installing native and runtime Steam, and installing Waydroid and its kernel extensions I've made games not work where they are just fine on my Steam Deck. Now I gotta reinstall which kind of sucks and I don't have time for it.

I'm too far down the rabbit hole. Everything I need works, I have built my workflow around sway.

Macs can go to hell because of their ctrl key placement alone; windows has never left hell, not much can be done about that.

I like owning my machine, even if it allows to shoot myself in the foot. With a shotgun. That is the true freedom, I suppose, and I appreciate it more than had ever expected.

I always install Linux, 1-2 times per year but in the end I always go back to Windows. I have apps which are Windows only but whenever I want to change display scaling to 125% on Linux, is when I slowly start losing interest in it.

I own a MacBook Air basically for GarageBand and other DAWs. I know how to get Jack to work. Pipewire made life easier. Still, music production on linux still sucks butts.

Too many butts for me to do anything other than other computer things and programming.

I wish Linux had Powertoys Fancy Zones

CAD Im not moving back, its more like moving back and forth

battery life kinda sucks

What on earth is a TempleOS?

I own an IT company. We are some sort of base metal partners with MS. I remember a huge box of "Select" CDs turning up back in the day. Nowadays we get demands for customers. ie we should be making more cash for MS. Its all one way - take, take. take.

I'm not a massive fan of owning a company and working for another one. So I don't. MS are receding into the rear view window.

Nothing. I have used Linux since it was on the alphabet floppies.

Game Maker is still only in beta for Linux. They warn against working on serious projects on it because it can just randomly break them.

Sometimes not feeling like being part of the online friend group. But I won't switch to Windows, it's just too bad.

Inconsistency of things, can't change things easily, random outdated stuff that would help if it wasn't abandoned several years ago and patched together to barely work. Gaming on Linux isn't good, so so much distros and not a lot of information besides "whatever you like". Hard to find things online because of outdated posts or just "top 10" type sites.

Windows is just plug and play, with a few apps that remove most annoyances. Nearly all games and modding of games are mostly just works.

Bluetooth on Linux fucking sucks

Minor compatibilities aside, Nothing that Windows itself has to offer, maybe some wallpapers I can just get online anyways lol

Very specific - linux mint occasionally... crashes? Goes back to lock screen randomly, and closes all open programs. Very annoying to have happen when playing Beyond All Reason with 15 other people, causing the game to pause while I scramble to get back in (if possible). Haven't looked into why too much, just went back to Windows to game. Mint for casual browsing and most else.

I only play two games and cant for the life of me get them to run properly on linux, and i only start the computer when i want to play so windows it is.

@ani honestly temple os just does what I need my computer to do nothing else can come close to it. I have tryed everything.

I am dualbooting but booting to windows fucks up my Bluetooth but I wanna boot to windows to play cyberpunk (I get almost half the fps on linux for that game spesifically), to play modded skyrim and fallout and last but not least run my ai chatbot for text adventures through koboldcpp (too difficult to build from scratch on linux) and oh fortnite, oh also roblox because I somehow fucked up grapejuice on linux and it crashes, if someone would.like to help me troubleshoot that hit me up. Other than that linux is awesome tho. Recently got.my openmw mods working. It is a treat.

There occasional hiccups with Linux that are sometimes by design, like Flatpaks not having access to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes some things need minor workarounds where they wouldn't otherwise, because there aren't enough people on Linux to make these workarounds the norm. I don't really mind, but it is nice not having to do anything like that on macOS (although there are other issues there, like not having access to /usr/bin in the first place :P)

At the end of the day, though, the development workarounds necessary on Windows are absolutely insane. Even as well documented as they are, I am very glad I don't need to touch Windows ever again because they still suck.

I use all three. I have Windows on one of my machines that I use occasionally for gaming. I use Macs for work since that's what all my corporate machines comes with and I daily drive Linux and use it for all my home servers.