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I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?
by molteanu 9mo ago
I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?
- doodlesdev 9mo agoFor some reason, there's a huge amount of Hacker News readers who are still full-time Windows users. With the forced migration to Windows 11, I guess a lot of them are now not only trying out Linux for the first time (as a desktop system), but also for some reason going for Arch derivatives, which is always fun to see a beginner mess with LOL
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 9mo ago[flagged]
- MonkeyClub 9mo agoIt's been Eternal September for quite a few years now.
- Telaneo 9mo agoToday is the 11820th of September 1993.
- haunter 9mo agoEasy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770
- molteanu 9mo agoOh, damn! I bet 2027 will be the year when writing code by hand will be (re)discovered. Hopefully.
- buzzardbait 9mo agoAh, so karma is a thing on HN as well. That would explain it. Since 2001 I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Mint. I got rid of them at the first available opportunity. Elon Musk himself couldn't pay me enough to switch to Linux.
- wiredpancake 9mo ago[dead]
- buzzardbait 9mo agoConfession: I got curious and tried Mint and ended up liking it. It's a lot better than it was a decade ago!
- yoyohello13 9mo agoDesktop Linux is still very niche, even in technical communities like HN.