Are you aMac,Windows orLinux user?
Me:Windows
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- LocationCaracas, Venezuela
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Windows user. I switched from Linux 2 years ago. Although linux is more power/recourses efficient, I was tired of dealing with compatibility issues on my everyday tools. I'm also a gamer, so I also got tired of using proton/wine/PlayOnLinux tools for games that can run effortlessly on Windows.
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Have you considered getting a steamDeck? i also had to dual boot my machine cause I want to play games. I wanted to get the steam deck but I can't get one in my country and as far as I know, it is not available till Q3. But SteamDeck is a linux machine that runs steam games pretty well.
- LocationCaracas, Venezuela
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Yes! I've seen/read a lot of reviews about the SteamDeck and it looks promising. As you said, the SteamDeck is a Linux machine which uses ProtonDB (a Steam/Valve tool which allow Steam to play native Windows games on other platforms). There are some compatibility issues with some games that requires Anti-Cheat software, but Valve says that the new updates will solve a lot of these issues. I might buy it at the end of year!
P.D: I will still use Windows for daily run!
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- LocationNairobi, Kenya
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Linux.
Simply because it was the cheapest option when I was starting out. I wanted to buy a new laptop that I really had my eye on. But I only had about $400 on me. The laptop was $500 but it came with windows installed. I asked the vendor if they would drop the price if they could not include the windows CD with it.
I got the laptop, went home and spent days figuring out how to install ubuntu on it.
7 years later, here I am running 3 different distros on my machines cause it's fun. Also cause the problems I face with linux are also uniquely mine. If something isn't running, it's probably because I messed up a configuration somewhere. It holds me accountable for my messes and frankly it is a great, albeit sometimes irritating, way to learn how to fix issues.
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- LocationIndia
- EducationIIT Kharagpur
- WorkEngineering Post Grad
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Windows user switched to Linux and never going back!
- LocationMinnesota
- EducationUniversity of Minnesota
- WorkSoftware engineer at Adobe on Photoshop.
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All three. Mostly Mac for general use & games & development (Xcode & Visual Studio & PyCharm), but also Windows for development (Visual Studio), and Linux on Raspberry Pi for fun.
In ancient days, also Amiga OS, GS/OS, ProDOS, AppleDOS, MS-DOS, OS/2, DEC VMS, and various Un*x (DEC Alpha Tru64, Sun Solaris, Minix, System V, FreeBSD, MS-Xenix before it was SCO-Xenix).
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Mac user.
It was tough descission, because it was new experience. For most of my life Windows was my primary OS, with some swaps to various Linux distros. Now i can freely say, that for me Mac is the most comfortable OS to work with.
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- LocationIndia
- EducationRamakrishna Mission Shilpamandira Computer Centre
- WorkSenior Mobile Application Developer at ABSYZ Inc
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Currenly using Windows
- LocationIndia
- WorkFull Stack developer at an Indian SAAS giant.
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Using mac for work.
Windows for personal projects.
Constantly switching between the 2.
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