After a lot of trying and reading, installing, sweat and blood.

>>60133702
> High userbase.(3)
> Low userbase.(2)
among others

>>60133734
Linux/GNU doesn't need as big userbase as windows, because most people using Linux/GNU have some knownledge about computer. Can't say the same about all Windows-users.

>>60133702
>Most third-party programs/tools.
>High-quality software.
>Have flagship programs.
When you have to spin one advantage into three points to make Windows look reasonable.

You're not wrong, except for crash and errors; Linux won't "crash," crashing means the OS stops working, like Windows BSOD.

Relevant pasta:

When a someone other than a NEET who browses /g/ recommends using Linux, what they mean is that they recommend that you take advantage of 35 years of the most talented programmers on earth actively trying to make a system that helps them program better, as part of a culture that expects a certain set of tools to be available and operate in a particular way. They encourage you to become familiar with what serious professional developers use, in part because it means they don’t have to cater to the idiosyncratic behaviors of half-assed development environments, and in part because knowing how to use these tools properly will make you a better programmer — because that’s what those tools are for, and that’s what they’ve been optimized for.

It's really not for the average gamer/media consumer. It's for programmers and computer scientists. I would never recommend it to tech normies. What you need to understand is that this isn't really a Linux vs. Windows issue, it's more of a Windows vs. UNIX thing. Windows was designed with end-users in mind, just average people who don't understand computers and don't want or need to. UNIX on the other hand is almost a philosophy, a culture of hackers and computer scientists who wanted an environment that makes development and algorithmic computing easy without the operating system or a million layers of "user-friendly GUIs" getting in the way.

UNIX is designed to make the computer scientist's life easier. Everything at the foundation of UNIX is a small program that does one thing and does it well, as opposed to one huge program that does a million different things and opens the door for sloppy or convoluted design.

>>60133904
(cont.)
tl;dr Windows is designed for people like you, with developers as an afterthought. Linux and Unix-derivatives are designed for developers, with people like you as an afterthought.

>>60133794
hahahahaha /thread

>>60133904
>>60133913
As relevant as this post is, the claim that OP does not have at least passing interest in developing something was unnecessary and honestly slightly detrimental to your argument.

>>60133702
>> Not user-friendly.(3)
users can either figure it out themselves or fuck off

your other criticisms are valid though

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>>60133702
> Lack of drivers.(2)
You never actually used Linux for more than 5 minutes in a VM have you?

>>60133702
U missed Mac my dude. It's more open than Windows: open source kernel. Same terminal as Linux, so great for programming; also has POSIX features.

>>60133702
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

>>60134607
have you used Linux more than 10 minutes on your computer?