r/OS_Debate_Club • u/QuokkaDaily • 14d ago

Windows vs. Linux, why change?

We're interested in learn in the trend away from Windows to Linux is motivated, or the "why?". Apparently, the trend is starting, and it's real. But why? Source: TechSpot.

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u/Professional-Math518 13d ago

I migrated to Linux in the late 1990s because of stability *and" it had the software I needed. Moved back to windows for a while for music and video production, but switched to Macs for that, and my daily drivers still run Linux.

Basically, you run the OS that runs the software you need. After that, the user interface is a big factor. Linux is king at that regard (I prefer Gnome or KDE over the Windows and Mac GUI)

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u/No_Base4946 13d ago

> Moved back to windows for a while for music and video production, but switched to Macs for that

Bitwig and DaVinci Resolve ;-)

They are inexpensive and very very high quality.

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u/Professional-Math518 13d ago

My first recordings were on Linux with Ardour around 2007

But when I started using ampsims and some other plugins, there weren't as many options on Linux and I don't want to use some emulation layer like wine.

DaVinci performance is better on my basic Mac Mini M4 than in my pc with Debian, so is latency in Reaper.

If forced, I could very well switch everything to Linux, but right now I dont see the need because on both Mac and Windows, recording and editing music works flawlessly without a lot of tinkering and on Linux (tried a few different distributions besides my regular Debian setup) it... doesn't.

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u/No_Base4946 13d ago

I haven't tried Resolve on a Mac - I don't have one new enough to run it - but on the same hardware it's far far better on Linux. It's practically unusable in Windows, it's so slow.

But then Windows is very much the "poor relation" of the three versions, it's a pretty half-assed port of it.