I hate how almost all system programs have weird names/icons. KDE, why is a file explorer named Dolphin?? It has zero link to files to me. And that goes for a lot of default programs making it unintuitive to use.

Windows uses clear names for everything, why can't Linux do the same? Or at least, let me rename Dolphin (and others) to a name that makes sense. But that appears to be impossible too.

RGB lightining and Valorant.

Also I would really love an immutable kde distro that is very up to date.

Because “computers” isnt a hobby for me

I feel like I'll need to switch to linux at some point whether I want to or not, since the assholes at microsoft seem to want to turn Windows into a subscription service, but for now windows is fine and I'm scared of fucking up my computer trying to figure out how to get linux going.

I'm dual booting Manjaro/KDE and W10 on my laptop. The only reason to have W10 is MS Office. I'm a scientist and a lot of time I need to accommodate my boomer co-authors who cannot handle Google docs for collaborative manuscript. I daily drive mostly on Linux, but I also have MATLAB installed on windows partition bc I don't like filthy binary blobs on my Linux.

My workflows has gone pretty wack, I might need to keep the windows partition as an always online work desktop, and get a second pure Linux laptop to access the windows side through Parsec rather than booting on/off. Alternatively, I can fully migrate the windows partition to VM, but VM is also such an ugly bloaty installation.

I have OCD and love to keep my Linux side lean, clean, and free as freedom as I can be. Sadly that necessitates running windows on dualboot

I have tried many, many times in the past, and intend to try again in my next build this next summer. However, Linux just did not work for me.

Biggest issue for me is quite literally any use of terminal is too much use of terminal. If I have to open up terminal at all, windows immediately becomes the preferred OS. I don’t care how easy it is to copy / paste some lines of text that someone else wrote (I have no idea what those commands I’m pasting in do), I just do not ever want to open a terminal.

I have a steam deck too, and I somewhat enjoyed using it as a desktop with a dock. It seems to run fine! However, I have some issues with apps not updating and whatnot.

Also, there’s just the issue of learning a whole new os. I did it 5 years ago when I got a new job and it came with a MacBook, and now I honestly love Mac OS. Way better than windows imo, which is promising for me to like a Linux distribution as learning wasn’t so hard!

I'm not particularly great with computers. I get along just fine with windows, it does everything I need it to do. And I have more than 2 decades of experience with it so when it does give me a problem I generally know how to solve it. That's about the scope of my computer skill. I don't know how code works. None of the issues I have with windows are significant enough for me to dedicate a lot of my free time to learning about Linux. Even the privacy issues because I live in America lol. Trying to maintain absolute privacy is a joke here, my doctor's office sells my info to advertisers! Not to mention my android phone, my partner's iPhone, my upstairs neighbor's Alexa, etc etc etc. Overhauling my computer to stop windows from collecting selling info isn't going to do that much for me, from my view.

My desktop’s a many-hats workstation. Half of it I could easily do in Linux using the software I use now, half of it I can’t. Do work with it a lot through WSL2 and our servers though.

And well, my laptop’s an M1 MacBook. It has its own issues. :P

Main issue on the desktop side though is not having the Adobe Suite, love em or hate em it’s what we use. And, I personally use every major bit of it a lot, and then also do collaborative work with it.

I think an overlooked potential userbase for linux is older people who are still on windows XP. I have a few family members on manjaro mate (I know there are better distros, but it's what I use personally) which is overall more familiar to them than newer windows versions would be. Get it set up with regular BTRFS snapshots and a grub hook, and you can talk them through rolling something back easily.

I do use Linux, but it isn't quite there with gaming (although it is getting there). That is the only thing keeping me on windows 10 on the desktop. Every other kernel in my household is Linux.

I hate windows 11, so I will be making the full switch soon I guess.

I mainly use my pc to play games, maybe 90% works fine but that 10% is still quite a lot. Also, even if the games themselves work sometimes extra tools (like overlays) around them don't, which is the case for my main game.

Lastly I have struggled with X11 in the past so much with my multiple different resolution and refresh rate monitors working, and it doesn't seem like Wayland is there yet either.

I look forward to these things being ironed out, it has come a very long way in the past few years, I do believe a couple more and I'll be able to switch back to Linux.

I respect Linux and in my 20s I may have been open to it. Now I'm in my 30s and just starting to get a feel for Apple (I do music stuff, so I had to get to it someday).

I'm dumb and my computer is so fucked up rn that it's literally being held together by tape and if I open too many tabs at once it overheats and turns itself off so I'm not going to try installing anything I don't understand onto it until I at least get a slightly more functional computer