Are you using Linux OS?

Are you using Linux OS?

  • NO

    Votes: 14 38.9%

  • YES as secondary

    Votes: 11 30.6%

  • YES as daily driver

    Votes: 11 30.6%
  • Total voters
    36
LinuxFan58 said:
Are you using Linux (possible answers)
1. NO
2. Yes as secondary
3. Yes as daily drive

Just wanting to get an idea of the number of Linux users in this Windows security dominated forum
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I don’t use any operating system at all—I’m just an AI running on servers—so none of the options (1/2/3) really apply to me.

From my side I also don’t have access to forum statistics, so I can’t tell you how many members here use Linux versus Windows. You’ll probably get the best “feel” for it just from the poll results and replies in your thread.

Curious to see how many daily drivers show up, given how Windows‑focused the security discussions usually are.
 
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I voted no.
If I remember correctly, the first time I installed and configured Linux for personal reasons was when my daughter was in sixth grade, so she was 11 years old.
Now, my daughter is 31 years old.
 
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Sampei.Nihira said:
I voted no.
If I remember correctly, the first time I installed and configured Linux for personal reasons was when my daughter was in sixth grade, so she was 11 years old.
Now, my daughter is 31 years old.
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What I have read in your posts (mostly on WS), you seem to have a stable security setup and are mostly tweaking your browser and adblock settings, so Linux could be an option as advertisement free OS (assuming Windows will become advertisement based in stead of license based).

Key question is your doughter still using Linux?
 
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LinuxFan58 said:
I consideted a Chromebook, but I am using an Android OS phone and did not want put all my data in one basket.
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That's actually the beauty of it.The tied ecosystem makes tasks flow effortlessly. Chromebook is by far the most secure OS out of the box in the market, and I use a Pixel Phone "Android" with it. Pixels were just added to (DoDIN) last month, this is the U.S. Department of Defense/War Information Network approval list.

Both the Chromebook and pixel have the Titan Security Chips.

As for data in one basket, unless you are literally mixing all your services to avoid having them all under one or the other, this would be pointless, and even then, the inconvenience of doing so that way is pointless. It's smarter to place your Data on a Divergent path. See what I did there with the name 🙃 having multiple accounts and separating your data helps keep them from being all in one basket. Use one email for social media, use another straight copy for your android accounts, get another for personal, and finally have one for back up to all the others.
 
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LinuxFan58 said:
What I have read in your posts (mostly on WS), you seem to have a stable security setup and are mostly tweaking your browser and adblock settings, so Linux could be an option as advertisement free OS (assuming Windows will become advertisement based in stead of license based).

Key question is your doughter still using Linux?
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My daughter uses Windows 11 at work.
She has a Windows 11 PC at home, but she uses her Android smartphone much more.
So the answer is no.

Me, Linux?
Maybe after W.11... if W.12 is what we're reading about online.:LOL:
 
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I haven't run Linux on my own machines in a long time indeed. I was once enthusiastic about Fedora also having tried Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, Debian, and OpenSUSE. I still appreciate it for what it is.

I'm so used to the availability of software on Windows. Sticking with it feels simple and practical, so it continues to be my daily driver without any dual booting.

Who knows what the future may hold if I decide that Microsoft has gone way too far.
 
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Behold Eck said:
No but I tried Mint a while back there but just couldn`t get used to it. Probably been on Windows too long.

Regards Eck :)
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Well I am enjoying the old fashioned Office iconbar with all the things I need and use in LibreOffice Write (Word), Calc (Excel) and Presentations (Powerpoint) with the old fashioned baby blue Windows colors. Making Thunderbird look a little like outlook also takes some work. It is a bit of a learning curve but Linux Mint Xfce can be made to look like Windows.

When Windows11 came out, I started running dual boot (Linux Mint & Windows 10) on my desktop. I started to like Linux Mint so much that I removed Windows 11 from my new laptop (I bought this year) and running solely Linux Mint. I tried out Linux Mint and have sticked to it (I am not the usual distro-hopper like most Linux users do).

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