I like forward slashes

Nothing. I hate having control over my personal property.

It's all about the penguins

Linux tends to get out of your way to let you get shit done. Windows tends to be a marketing platform for Microsoft products that lets you get shit done.

I don't see why my office computer needs some xbox app I can't uninstall.

But with Linux, you can init=/bin/vim

Why settle for running vim on your os when vim can just be your os?

da penguin!!!!

Oh, now this is a shitpost.

Number one, I get to tell people that I use Arch. I could anyway, but this way I'm not lying.

Number two, it's not Micro$oft or Crapple.

Number three, living in my mother's basement isn't as cost effective as I was hoping it'd be so free helps immensely.

Thought about downvoting, then realized it is top-tier.

1. Lighter
2. Better on weaker hardware
3. More options how you set up your system: Desktop Environments/Window Managers.
4. Free and Open Source (so no paying out the arse for Windows).
5. More Software options.
6. Better Security.
7. No monitoring by your OS provider.

Vim does care, but it doesn’t want to hurt your feelings.

Vi also cares, but not about feelings.

Wanted to reply until I saw its a shitpost... You nearly had me :D

Well, you actually own it for one, given Linux is an open platform, you're generally not at some corporation's will unlike with closed platforms like Windows or even macOS, you're also not arbitrarily locked out of running it on hardware made before a certain date unlike with Win11; as long as the kernel supports it, it should run on your hardware, where Windows arbitrarily locks out anything older than Zen+ or Kaby Lake without a modded install medium starting with Win11, and it generally uses less resources than Windows nowadays although that varies based on configuration.

I'm glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.

It's free and runs stuff good.

No spyware, much better performance and wear on your hardware. Actual control over your devices. The downside is, linux is complicated and a pain to learn how to use or maintain. Windows is easy to use but so is a vtech laptop which is essentiallly the trade off. It used to be that windows was easy to use and open as a platform, but microsoft is doing everything in its power to ruin windows. The modern developers also really suck and the modern codebase is buggy as hell. The OS kills your harddisks and ssds, even before the new broekn update because they are constantly scanning your files to send signitures to palantir or whatever. They are removing basic functionality and a few years from now I imagine you wont even be allowed to close or open apps, like with Android. It will just be full of ads and spyware and you will have to pay a subscription to use it or something. People have been jumping ship because at this point continuing to use windows is just going to make your life painful in the future.

What finally pushed me over the edge was when I was trying to fix something in Windows and it said I couldn’t access that part of the OS. Bitch, you work for me, not the other way around. I’ve flopped back and forth between Linux and Windows for decades and just decided that anything I couldn’t do in Linux I just wouldn’t do. So far, I haven’t really encountered anything. With how much of my average computing is done in a browser these days, Firefox doesn’t really care which OS it’s running on.