Using windows for ANY reason

>using windows for ANY reason
explain yourself
games, work and content creation are not excuses because they can all be done on a real OS

No real Sup Forumsentoomen use wankblows, it's just the Sup Forums cross boarders

I'm autistic

because I am not a virgin

>games, work and content creation are not excuses because they can all be done on a real OS

No it can't... Linux is obviously better and TECHNICALLY it can be done, but my boss would not accept that.

Because I have no reason to put linux on my desktop, reinstall everything, download wine and hope it works for Dark Souls and Age of Empires HD, and any secure data is already dealt with on my linux laptop
So why SHOULD I use linux on my desktop despite that?

can you use apple os on a pc?
if not why not

Why are they here? How do we make them leave? Are GPU and PC Building threads getting deleted on Sup Forums or something?

Games should not be the first thing to pop in your head when you think about what operating system to have on your personal computer. Consider privacy, security, available software, performance optimizations, community, etc.

Macintosh computers are personal computers (PCs). You can put Mac OS on one, but it's proprietary, just like Windows, I would not recommend it, even if it's slightly more sane for being unix-like.

>available software
Like games?

"you shouldn't use an operating system for what you want! you should care about what I care about!"

fuck off

The only reason i use wangblows is windoze sahvun for my gaming desktop. Once 7 is out of support cycle, any games I can't get working on GNU/Linux, I just won't fuck with. Maybe I'll have a dedicated windows machine not network connected for games, anything I need software wise I'll download and put on there instead.

> games
An obvious lie, but i will indulge you: yes, you can play some of the current-gen games on Linux, but it's generally a worse experience compared to playing them on Windows.
> work
Depends on what are you working on/what's your job actually requires from the PC.
You can't reliably use CAD or a professional photo/video editing software on Linux. Lightroom, Photoshop, Adobe Premier etc.
I also happen to be a .NET developer (currently) and it's a pain in the ass to develop .net services on Linux.
> content creation
Possible, but only if you really care about free software being free.

Windows has it uses, as well as Linux and OSX.
If you are lonely and want someone to chat with on Sup Forums, you should've checked stupid questions general or programming general or any other popular thread for this matter.
Hope you are doing well senpai :

Then I would be fine without a computer :^)

This. If you say playing games is a reason you need Windows, I automatically assume you're either a child or manchild.

Just video games. Dual booting seems like pain in the ass.

Just go to lainchan

Which is funny because the biggest manchildren are easily seen in most Linux desktop threads, showing off their waifus and other childish bullshit.

because sometimes when i have girls over i dont want to have to explain to them how to use the fucking computer

they know and understand windows 7 so fuck you

It's not. Easy to set up and once it is you are greeted with a prompt for what you want to use every time you boot.

Lots of DEs behave just like windows ootb.

But again, all of my secure shit is done on a linux laptop. Read what I fucking say instead of just sperging out maybe?

>having tech illiterate thots at your place.

I mean c'mon, it's 2017.

>games, work and content creation are not excuses because they can all be done on a real OS

Nope. The games I want to play are only on Windows.

Because I want to. What are you gonna do about it, huh?

It's easy to setup dual boot but it's not easy to organize partitions. Video games will need their own ntfs partition to store games and game installs, for example. Everything else would be in ext4, I guess, so I'll have to back up my data somewhere and reformat...

i have an nvidia optimus laptop and i hate tearing, other than that i use linux on every other pc

No software support from some big companies, no good desktop environment (the window managers are super nice though), no proper hardware acceleration in browsers, still lacks support from some game companies, no binary-compatibility which makes it very hard for companies to support it for various reasons (different ABIs, different set of libraries, etc). Also still plagued with a lot of GNUisms, and people don't want to deal with the FSF so they just avoid linux altogether if possible, of course, distros from other companies like RHEL or Ubuntu are still relatively supported within what's possible. That's it I guess.

I can't participate in the speccy threads without wangblows.
Also f2k is anchoring me.q

Is laziness an answer?

they actually are discouraged on Sup Forums

Games because I don't want to fucking around with wine for 20 hours to get one game to work at 70% the speed with glitches.

>consider privacy

Even if my PC would send every page, click and whatnot of what I'm doing on my PC, someone would just get a picture of a man playing some vidya, watching normie porn and F1 videos on jewtube and shitposting here. I don't care one bit if someone knows that about me.

>security

See above, there's nothing worth stealing on my pc, I don't do serious banking from here, and they only card I'm using has no more than like $500 on it, so again no big deal.

>available software

All the software I ever wanted is available on microcucks OS, so moot point

>performance optimizations

Browsers work the fucking same, gayms run better on winblows.

>community

This is rich. I actually used loonix for 2 years and it's community competes for my #1 Toxic Douchebags award, right there with Stack Overflow faggots.


In short, there will never be a year of the loonix, because it offers absolutely nothing new for normies, which constitute majority of pc users.

too lazy to try linux
games

Why do people make threads like this? To start a circlejerk?

I have Linux on dual boot but I never use it because it fucking sucks

full of god damn bugs and has serious usability issues

it's been the same way for at least a decade now, and instead of fixing shit all they do is add more bloat and useless 'features' while trying to copy apple/microsoft

But I'm not using it.

Out of a fuckton of free software/open source shit replacement shit only Blender is the only one that is actually competitive.

my employer of 75,000+ people built hooks into our main application to access our servers (used by tens of thousands of companies around the world) that deeply hook into the trident rendering engine of Windows and Microsoft Office, meaning running a non-Windows OS results in certain key functionality not working within our application.

What anime is grill from

>all these valid excuses that windows does better in every way aren't actually excuses
Hey, faggot OP, kill yourself you permavirgin weeb.

Backing up my 100+ gigabytes of data is too much of a hassle before I can get myself a decent external drive.

Corporate decides we use Windows

This, use MacOS, the OS of real men.

The best part is the community attitude of "well if you dont like it why not fix it yourself?" Nigger, I want to use my computer, not spend my free time fixing OS bugs.

>only 100 gigs

Active Directory, SharePoint, Exchange, Azure(ish), and then there's the whole 3rd party software library...

I don't want to have any compatibility issues with wangblows software when I'm developing in visual studio. also I use microsoft sql server management studio which would probably also have lots of compatibility issues on ganoo loonix

>games .. can all be done on a real OS
Yeah, that's why I'm using windows

the only people who don't use windows are the ones who don't code for a living. it can be done on gnu linux but you'll have lots of issues and your boss probably won't accept it. gnu linux is better for just fucking around and posting on Sup Forums though.

IS IT TIME?!

>games

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>Content creation in Linux
Good luck finding quality VSTs and software that doesn't add a shit ton of latency.

>be OP
>use linux
>is autistic on Laotian boat fishing forum

If you weren't a NEET then maybe you would realize that some programs don't work on linux you crybaby

I'm go on Sup Forums but I use Linux 90% of the time

How else would I look outside from indoors?

>games, work and content creation are not excuses because they can all be done on a real OS
While the first and last are true, there's a good deal of enterprise software that only runs on Windows. And no there aren't always open source alternatives to that software.

you don't need to use windows ever.
>playing games
grow up
>CAD
get a real job
>terminal
stop being dumb

Why do GNU/Linux fanboys constantly sperg out over Windows? It's a constant parade of tantrums.

>grow up
You first, NEET

>get a real job
You first, NEET

>stop being dumb
You first, NEET

0/10. Try harder next time, fuckface.York

Because they are autists. They cannot communicate correctly in polite society and the only way they can cope with the soul-crushing realization that they are everything wrong with the world is by lashing out at people and being elitist gatekeeping trash.

>content creation
>linux
don't make me laugh

>install any lincuck distro
>have to use the latest adobe cc software
>can't install it on lincucks
>have to use wine
>it doesn't support the latest adobe cc software

>install homOS
>install any triple A game from 2017
>it doesn't work
>even if it works it stutters and runs like shit

why would you need the latest adobe cc software? And most AAAs are incomplete shits anyway. I'd rather playing something made to be fun, and most of them works on wine.
Enjoy your botnet.

>games, work and content creation are not excuses because they can all be done on a real OS

none of these can

proprietary graphics drivers + dual monitors + X + vidya = tons of wonky behavior

Seriously I couldn't get most games to work like this and as far as I could tell it was literally unfixable without switching to slow Nouveau drivers or losing a monitor.

eroge

Someone brings up some actual points against using Linux
>well in my opin-

I'll give you privacy, but that's just a consequence of the license, not the OS;
>available software;
Bitch, i know my software works on Windows, and don't have to worry about the repo being constrained by the minor version of the OS, since most of that shit gets recompiled every time a new version comes along.
>performance optimizations
That's ironic, since i look at phoronix test suites all the time, and windows always has a 5-10-15-30% lead, depending on the program(unless it's something dependant on NTFS, or openarena)
>community;
Not particularly remarkable.
Besides, im here to use my PC, not hold hands with neckbeards to fix basic functionality.

Because I want to use a computer for entertainment and entertainment only, I've tried Linux in the past and it's just too much a pain in the ass to get it running right. You elitist neets who can afford to spend all day fucking around may think your pretty cool but I have a job, a family and other interests. With windows I turn on my computer, load up steam and my games work. It's simply not that simple on Linux and anyone saying otherwise is either lying or only talking about a few niche indy games. And even so I had to use specific drivers just to play ftl and binding of Isaacs on Linux. .. tldr, not worth the hassle for someone with a life that don't revolve around his computer.

ga back to facebook with that cancer meme