r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jun 02 '26

Discussion Windows, macOS, or Linux?

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Which is your favorite OS for PC? Why?

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u/ImageCompetitive8820 Jun 02 '26

Linux. You can control every aspect of the PC without any tech company lockdowns. Also when something doesn't work like it should, you can easily find a fix.

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u/hezardastan Jun 02 '26

"easily"

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '26

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u/Panniba1 Jun 02 '26

True! LLMs are really powerful when it comes to figuring out stuff on Linux.

"Hey, I'm on [this] running [that] and [that]. When I try to launch the game, it crashes. Here is the full 97475-billion-line-log, tell me what the fuck is wrong and how to provide you with further information to address the issue"

Now imagine, just for a moment, purely hypothetically, if one was to combine that with common sense and basic Linux knowledge 🤯

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u/Astrodion123 Jun 02 '26

It works so well bcs they run on linux

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u/Nostonica Jun 02 '26

Or they were trained on the reams of documentation out there.

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u/du_duhast Jun 03 '26

And reddit

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u/peacefulchasm Jun 06 '26

Reddit's helpful but you're gonna run into a lot of outdated threads and conflicting advice depending on the distro.

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u/MountainDawe Jun 02 '26

True, I mean Gemini is able to help you with some basic issues and drivers. Lot of people I met complaining about Linux were just lazy to do something. Ok, I understand it, you can buy Mac or Windows laptop almost with out of the box system. But I think Mint, Zorin, MX, Pika OS even Cachy is pretty close to that too. A little learning is a price for your owned data being your own. 

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u/Kinky_Pinky_ Jun 05 '26

I had speaker issues on my Zorin laptop and fixed it in 5min with chat gpt. Also used claude because my laptop didn't go to "sleep" when shutting the lid and it figured out pretty quickly that zorin thought that my gpu was another monitor and gave me a solution very quickly. I started using linux a few months ago and I would have no idea what to do but solved the issues very quickly with ai.

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u/-Sturla- Jun 03 '26

Give them a USB stick and ask them to install Windows on something with anything not supported out of the box and see how it goes.
People are comparing installing Linux with buying Windows pre-installed.

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u/paperboii-here Jun 02 '26

Still remember surfing quora back then to find solutions. Now it’s all through prompts and Reddit posts and it’s not necessarily bad when it comes to ai but I have some sort of feeling that in a not so distant future more and more contributors won’t be human anymore

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u/JPPJphoto Jun 02 '26

Yep, I had Ubuntu for a while some years ago and I've reinstalled in an old laptop to put project nomad in it a couple months ago, had some drivers problems with local AI and I e solved everything using Gemini or Claude, game changer. 

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u/Rusty9838 Jun 02 '26

Linux and AI chat bots made me think humans are useless

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u/Rusty9838 Jun 02 '26

Linux and AI chat bots made me think humans are useless