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Iā€™ve got LXCā€™s running on my Proxmox host and been playing or working with Linux for 25 years, but on my desktop Iā€™ve always run Windows. Linux is great right up until it isnā€™t and then I spend more time than Iā€™d like troubleshooting it. On my desktop I just want things to work and Windows does that. I hate the bloatware, spyware and the nagging to switch to Edge, but everything I run, runs, including games with anti-cheat. Iā€™m sure I could get Linux to a similar state, but it would take a lot more effort.

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The freedom of choice is wonderful, isnt it ? We are all free, to make our own decisions, as free as to live with the consequencies out of that^^

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I did my part.

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Whatā€™s the chance that these are actual regular people doing this?

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I downloaded Ubuntu recently. Donā€™t hurt me

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I stopped distro hopping around a decade ago, and just use default Ubuntu LTS releases. No shade from me.

Iā€™m not going to pretend that Ubuntu is the coolest, hippest, trendiest distro around, but itā€™s good enough, stake enough, and gosh darn it Iā€™m just used to it.

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Ubuntu is great because they have a huge community and an enterprise-class, fully supported product. No shade for using it. Itā€™s not my cup of tea, I often find myself wanting to be more on the bleeding edge, and Iā€™ve found Endeavor (an Arch variant) to be amazingly capable.

But Iā€™ve also been using Linux on and off since 97 and exclusove (at least in personal life) since like 2015.

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Define ā€œregular peopleā€.

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Not tech savvy people. Your aunt.

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StatCounter statistics are directly derived from hitsā€”as opposed to unique visitorsā€”from 3 million sites, which use StatCounter, resulting in total hits of more than 15 billion per month.[5] No artificial weightings are used to correct for sampling bias, thus the numbers in the statistics can not be considered to be representative samples.

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