Heavily invested in Microsoft tech, but not using windows. At all. Couldn’t be happier.

Due to word being too buggy, I switched to libre office in windows. Local outlook was also too buggy in windows, I ended up running the web version. Switched to vscode b/c VS was to buggy and slow.

Teams works better in macos. Web version of teams is ok in Linux, you don’t want to run the native app in windows, it’s a resource hog written as a web app anyway.

Dotnet and powershell (pwsh) actually works better in both macos and in Linux, than in windows. Not a little better, but much better, that ecosystem is very stable and reliable.

And azure has of course no dependency on any local windows, on the contrary, dealing with remote systems are easier in Linux, particular if you accessing remote Linux systems as well.

Then I realized there was no reason to run windows. At all. It will only drag you down when it comes to productivity, it’s an awful os, filled with malware and other shit.

> At the very least, when something goes wrong on Linux you have log messages that can let you know what went wrong so you can search for it.

It is hilarious how accurate this is. When something crashes on Windows you better hope it has its own logs you can find because the OS itself will tell you nothing. Event Viewer can't hold a candle to journald!

Been following this blog for a while and this is the last person I would have expected to be a Windows user.

I run Kubuntu on this gaming machine (AlienWare) and I run it on my 16 year old Dell laptop I used for work back then. Runs great and with RAM prices high and people looking to make their older machines useful instead of trashing them, there's a really good chance they can run Linux.

I recently switched to Linux for all development. I still use my Mac for everything else.

The main reason was to protect my personal data from possible supply chain issues or LLM agent mishaps.

I’m 99% in VSCode, a browser, and a terminal. There’s hardly a difference day-to-day.

I'm a windows user since I was 5. My favorite OS. both for home and for professional environment. Seems that Windows 11 will be the last Microsoft OS I'll ever use

2026 will certainly be the year of the 'I'm switching to Linux' thinkpieces

Let's use the influx of new users to get some money flowing!

It would be great if all those "I switched to Linux" articles would mention a few ways to donate to some important projects, helping to make FOSS thrive.

For me, 2025 was the year of the Linux desktop. I wanted a replacement for an M1, something beefy to build side projects etc., so I custom built a PC and put NixOS on it. Still rocking it and quite happy with it.

Funny that at the last minute of 2025 (at least in my country), I wrote a blog post titled "2025 is the Year of Linux Desktop, at least for me".

It is just a short post to note about how in 2025 some of my friends are finally migrating to Linux. And that was something awesome for me.

https://blog.juliardi.com/2025-is-the-year-of-linux-desktop-...