Most of these windows lovers here exist just because windows haters don't have a solid reason and follow up on those who actually do have good reasons to hate windows.

Moral of the story: Don't hate windows just because you think all the devs hate it. Come up with some decent reasons to avoid gamers and microsoft warriors from crushing your rant.

Unfortunately, Windows has more games and software. But that's because people don't want to change. If more people used linux, companies would get their shit together and make software for linux. These days though, all the games I play are on linux. And all the software I use. I've started making a game, and there are some solid tools for the job on linux. Anyway, does it matter really? Linux has won. Total victory on mobile, IoT and servers. Only desktop resists, and with new advancements like Vulkan, that's changing. And that's good. People should support people and ideas, not companies that only want their money. By supporting windows, you just help an investor buy a new plane or something. By supporting an open-source project you help yourself and thousands of other people be more creative. So, please tell me, why on earth would anyone hate linux and support Windows?

@Atlas For professional software, have you tried Krita? It's really great and moving fast. Some say it's better that Photoshop for some things, like drawing for example... Also, Lightworks for video editing has a different but VERY fast workflow.

@antoni4040 the problem is though people who want freedom by using Linux also probably won't pay as much as windows or Mac users for proprietary software. Also it f the software is not open source people who use Linux probably won't want to use it.

I'm not tarring everyone with this brush, just sayin

@philcr I believe that Adobe etc make most of their money from companies that buy software for their employees, so I'm not sure about the strength of your argument... And professionals that are willing to pay what they must...

@Atlas @antoni4040 if I was sure that my software would be used on Linux I would invest the time in porting it. But without certainty it would be dead money.

Ugh... Another one of these arguments.

Great.

@Atlas The 'Linux is better than Windows' age old debate.

Use what suits you and stfu about it.

@drRoss you know you enjoy these arguments as much as i do

@jckimble I actually really dislike them, mainly because it's people complaining about how much Windows sucks. Then they move to Linux for a week, then come crawling back.

@drRoss why you let things bug you, as long as it works for you who cares what others say. there's rants about linux on here granted not as many as windows but it doesn't bother me cause i know why i choose linux and its good for me. You know as well as anybody on here I'll rip the hell out of microsoft on here with the only thing i dislike more is apple but personally i couldn't careless what other people do. Have some fun be a troll say linux sucks cause it doesn't have perfect graphics card support even though it has 100000 developers working on it, as long as you don't take it personally its a fun way to get a few laughs and blow off some steam

@jckimble To be fair, any sort of proposed elitism bugs me. And often in these discussions it'll be the age old argument of Microsoft of the early 90s hating Linux. I prefer to use relevant recent facts just to disprove those people.

@drRoss yeah the thing about it is that both have their advantages and disadvantages. its like compairing a philips and flat screwdriver both work good on different types of screws. But its fun to me to poke the bear to see what kind of dumbass arguments both sides come up with

@jckimble But it's always the same argument!! There's only so many times I can read about someone complaining about Windows Updates!

Just one question, am I the only idealistic idiot around here that considers the moral concequences? Like, I don't know, letting one fucking company deciding how you're supposed to work, a company with a long history that shows it will do anything to guarantee more money for its investors and nothing else, because that's what companies are supposed to do? It's not about games or services we're talking about here. We are talking about tools. Control the tools, and you control the lives of billions. Sounds convoluted and even crazy? Fine, I'll show myself out, you kids have fun when the whole thing gets fucked up in a few years...

@antoni4040 Oh come on... Even the distros of Linux that people use line the pockets of the big companies.

Ever heard of the Linux foundation? Yeah, there's a reason that people like VMWare and Microsoft are fully paid up members. Because the more money you pay to the Linux foundation, the more your requests are worked on in Linux.

E.g. Microsoft want a change made or added to the kernel? They'll get it because of the money they pay towards funding the development of Linux you all know and love.

@antoni4040 well as for that argument. If you haven't noticed they're 3 major players that control most of the internet microsoft, apple, and google. take a look at all 3 and their product lines. All 3 are trying to have full control of your information.

@drRoss while you're right not every request will be added due to the nature of linux. Even if it is it can be removed before compile where its not being used while on propritary systems you either run it or don't use it. Another advantage of linux is that if you want a system feature you can make it, worse case you can patch the kernel if its not accepted mainstream. Windows/macX all you can do is request the feature and hope they do it