Mostly Windows complaining for a bit but mentions linux.
Strange to buy Linux…but you do you.
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This is a bit offtopic. I’d rather have more content on Linux in and on itself than these rants against a corporate OS. Thread locked.
Zorin is a good OS but IMO it’s a little too simplistic for most people who know what an operating system is.
But as the video gets at, the question of “when will Linux be better than Windows” is solidly “today”. MacOS is probably still “better” for someone fully invested in the Apple ecosystem. But Linux is not far behind that either.
macOS has far better desktop applications across the board than Linux. What you get for free with a Mac is nothing to sneeze at:
- a full office suite Pages, Keynote, Numbers, all of which are very nice. - The default PDF viewer has many functions that allow you to edit and modify PDFs easily.
- GarageBand is a full featured DAW that gets you pretty far with music making at home.
- iMovie a super easy and performant video editor.
Sure Linux has replacements for all these, but they aren’t as nice to use, reliable, or fully featured. macOS has tons of commercial and FOSS applications are available as well.
The indie software scene on the Mac is pretty strong. Omni group deserves a mention with their excellent tools. Also applications like Git Tower and Kaleidoscope are such a joy to use and powerful.
Linux attracts lots of programmers, but it’s difficult to make a living by building a good desktop application. I hope that changes.
Linux on the desktop has other strengths, especially since it lacks the enshittyfication that had plagued macOS for a couple of years now.
Microsoft and Apple see disregarding, that an OS should get out of your way and enable you to get stuff done. To them it’s more of an opportunity to seek subscription services.
Linux on the other hand costs no money. That’s a huge advantage, especially when switching.
macOS has far better desktop applications across the board than Linux. What you get for free with a Mac is nothing to sneeze at:
Counterpoint: The apple of yore is not the apple of today.
Recent examples:
- https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
- https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html
- https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
- etc…
At this point, the beginner-friendly linux distros (Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Bazzite) are more sensible and logically consistent than either Windows or MacOS.
Tangent: If you’re looking at paid git clients on MacOS, I’d recommend fork over Git Tower or Kaleidoscope.
I hope people remember when they downvote you that if we cant critisize the things we love, they can’t improve.
Sincerely, a long time linux user who thinks we shouldn’t downvote literally anyone even mildly critical of linux, often doing so in a constructive way
I upvoted you, but I do feel it’s only a matter of time before the open source community outpaces Apple as well. Just a few short years ago the “year of the Linux desktop” was a joke. Now for many, Linux is unquestionably the better option.
Imagine having the option to be-exactly-like-MacOS-if-you-want-but-aren’t-forced-to (basically what’s happened with Linux and Windows this year). It would be game over for Apple, at least from a software perspective.
Sounds like the Zorin astroturfing is paying back dividends.
Advertising works.
Ya all got an obsession with Windows, like it lives rent-free in your heads.
I have to use it at work. So I bash it all I can. Its the only solace I get when onedrive keeps advertising on my desktop, AI pops up in Excel, and outlook got much worse (slow AND interface is convoluted now).
Plus my computer stopped working last week and had to get a new one cause of the update…on the day of a major deployment. You cant make this stuff up. Its not just in my head, its every interaction at work.
You know? I don’t even think about Windows since I started using Linux as my main desktop OS almost 2 decades ago. Even while I was using for the sole reason of playing games, I wasn’t really thinking about it, because all I did was launch the games I wanted to play. Barely ever even opened Explorer ffs.
Nowadays in the glory wake of Proton, it never crossed my mind unless I see posts like this, or my friends are having issues with their computers and they’re trying to troubleshoot Windows (lol).
wasn’t really thinking about it, because all I did was launch the games I wanted to play.
It getting increasingly belligerent trying to get me to switch to a Microsoft account over the last decade was by itself enough to make me furious.
Did you switch to Linux yet? If so, welcome to the family!
Oh yes. Like you I only used it on my gaming rig, and 2 years ago switched to Linux even for that
Glad to have you on board!
