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Obligatory Linux comment when speaking about Microsoft, windows or anything related. I don't have Linux but you guys make it hard to like it.

bombcar 6mo ago
I run Outlook in Wine or on the Web on Linux in a VM on Mac and make everyone mad.
- aucisson_masque 6mo ago
  Aaaaarrrrrrhhhhh ! You crazy mad man, are you trying to start a world war ??
leptons 6mo ago
I was on Windows for 30 years. I advocated for it and even got a few CTOs to switch from MacOS to Windows because they saw Windows was actually more capable than Apple propaganda would have you believe. I'm not really sure how you figure that my comment makes Linux hard to like. I simply don't like the direction Microsoft is headed in, and haven't for some time. Many people don't like it. Microsoft recently may have had a realization as a company and they might change their current direction, but I still doubt I'll go back. They expected me to pay twice for software that I paid a "lifetime license" for, only because I upgraded the CPU in my computer. If you think that somehow makes Linux look bad, then I don't know man... I run my email inside a virtual machine, so it was easy for me to switch over from Windows/Outlook to Linux/Thunderbird. I certainly don't expect everyone to switch.
papichulo2023 6mo ago
Dude you are on HN no Reddit, most people around here use Linux
- esseph 6mo ago
  I wished I believed this, but it feels closer to 50% Apple, 35% Windows, 15% Linux.
  - lostlogin 6mo ago
    We could do with a poll.
  - nottorp 6mo ago
    You also need to define "use". No one or almost no one specifies whether they use $OS at work or for their own stuff, or whether the work $OS is mandatory for the organization. And at home... the IT HNer probably has everything. I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes.
    - theshackleford 6mo ago
      > I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes. Guilty.
  - sph 6mo ago
    It's probably more like 85% Apple, 10% Linux, 5% Windows.
    - leptons 6mo ago
      Considering Apple's always-low market share worldwide on desktop and mobile, I find those ratios hard to believe, even on a niche website like HN.
subscribed 6mo ago
It started literally with Outlook (implied Windows), and Microsoft.

bombcar 6mo ago

I run Outlook in Wine or on the Web on Linux in a VM on Mac and make everyone mad.

aucisson_masque 6mo ago
Aaaaarrrrrrhhhhh ! You crazy mad man, are you trying to start a world war ??

leptons 6mo ago

I was on Windows for 30 years. I advocated for it and even got a few CTOs to switch from MacOS to Windows because they saw Windows was actually more capable than Apple propaganda would have you believe. I'm not really sure how you figure that my comment makes Linux hard to like. I simply don't like the direction Microsoft is headed in, and haven't for some time. Many people don't like it. Microsoft recently may have had a realization as a company and they might change their current direction, but I still doubt I'll go back. They expected me to pay twice for software that I paid a "lifetime license" for, only because I upgraded the CPU in my computer. If you think that somehow makes Linux look bad, then I don't know man... I run my email inside a virtual machine, so it was easy for me to switch over from Windows/Outlook to Linux/Thunderbird. I certainly don't expect everyone to switch.

papichulo2023 6mo ago

Dude you are on HN no Reddit, most people around here use Linux

esseph 6mo ago
I wished I believed this, but it feels closer to 50% Apple, 35% Windows, 15% Linux.
- lostlogin 6mo ago
  We could do with a poll.
- nottorp 6mo ago
  You also need to define "use". No one or almost no one specifies whether they use $OS at work or for their own stuff, or whether the work $OS is mandatory for the organization. And at home... the IT HNer probably has everything. I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes.
  - theshackleford 6mo ago
    > I'd bet everyone who says they use Mac OS on the desktop also has Linux boxes. Guilty.
- sph 6mo ago
  It's probably more like 85% Apple, 10% Linux, 5% Windows.
  - leptons 6mo ago
    Considering Apple's always-low market share worldwide on desktop and mobile, I find those ratios hard to believe, even on a niche website like HN.

subscribed 6mo ago

It started literally with Outlook (implied Windows), and Microsoft.