letterblade:

runihara:

themultiplatformgamers:

My friend shared this. I shared this subreddit. He stands corrected.

Not to mention, what are you going to recommend to them instead?  Our options are limited to: Pretty crappy and subject to a lot of hacks, but affordable and user friendly (Windows).  Way too expensive, insanely proprietary, not user friendly, and really only useful to artists because of all the free editing software (Mac).  Or, so incredibly hard to install and set up that you almost have to be an IT person to even install it, but it’s free, stable, and next to no viruses are written to attack it (Linux and possibly others out there).

dude, the only people who have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to each other are Linux wonks

Nah, anyone in the tech industry has those conversations.

Linux has been made Really Easy in the last five years, it’s not scary any more! I did a fresh install of Kubuntu in about twenty minutes and it was like… three tickboxes and a few options. Linux Mint is also super easy, and has literally everything you need out of the box.

(I’m probably a Linux wonk, though)