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[ninstar@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss The ability to customize virtually anything you want.

When I was younger I used to thinker with my Windows installs all the time to get it to look and feel exactly how I wanted, but it would constantly break, it was really frustrating. Seeing other people making their own rices was how I found out about Linux.

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss aligns with the values i believe and espouse - open and free flow of knowledge and ideas, creative commons, somewhat a just process,

Technically competent, supported despite mainstream industry shenanigans

And now so effective and good to use with hardky much headache in file compatibility, or significant hardware incompatibility

And fun, absolutely fun (sometimes headachy) but at the end of the day i am technically better (and hopefully a better person) because i use linux.

[thezorse@hear-me.social]

@itsfoss

It's not trying to use, manipulate, or trick me.

[nitana@lgbtqia.space]

@itsfoss I love the things other commenters posted, but for me number one thing is ownership/control: Windows can just randomly decide to update, which is super annoying especially with work and school laptops... Being stuck staring at an update bar while you have a test in the opposite end of the campus is stressful.

Also, I had an older laptop which needed some specific drivers to run smoothly. Windows kept overwriting my drivers, >w< had to change the drivers several times in a month.

Linux respects your time and choices.

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@haltncatchfire @itsfoss lovely

[fast_blast@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss freedom

[rhizomancer@todon.eu]

@itsfoss it's a door to learn more about how you engage with the technologies surrounding you. We"ve reached a point where we take Microsoft, Google and the others as the default. Having Linux there is a way to reinterpret your relationship with the digital overall

[renanlecaro@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss I don't need to air-gap linux for it to be usable. Looking at you windows

[liberloebi@digitalcourage.social]

@itsfoss it exists

[simondeutschl@troet.cafe]

@itsfoss
That it's source code is open. And that I can do with it whatever I want, it doesn't annoy me with AI and it runs smoothly on my 11 year old computer.

[t@piaille.fr]

@itsfoss no bloat and i can run it on a potato

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss
It returned ownership of my computers to me.
I can choose an appropriate distro for each computer I own.
I am not only allowed to, but actually encouraged to, tinker with the inner workings of Linux.
I choose which software I want to support financially.
I am not supporting a morally bankrupt company.
The community rocks!

[gokushrm@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss it's completely free

[samueljohnson@mstdn.social]

@itsfoss One-click updates of both OS and applications together at a time of MY choosing.

No wait for 30 minutes
No separate apps to track available updates
No need for license keys
No need to register or pay*
No need to restart (usually)

*I donate to several projects but I won't get cut off if I can't / don't

[im@est.social]

@itsfoss Adding to all the other good reasons. Lack of enshittification for the sake of selling some other product almost nobody wants.

[silky_chai@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Freedom, it respects me, it let me use my hardware for myself instead of taking most of it for spyware, and it allows me to do whatever I am able to because of my technical skills without bs barriers. And it is objectively superior.

[dwosky@fosstodon.org]

@itsfoss I like the possibility to contribute and be part of the community. From commenting problems faced and getting help to contributing with either ideas or code changes.

[oldcoder@dansu.org]

Hold the phone
You can roll your own
Not just fork or patch
You can build it from scratch
Try that with Windows
Not as simple as you'd suppose
Linux is a genre and not a single thing
If you'd like to make the angels sing
You can be the one the book to write
It's out of sight

No, that isn't LLM.
#CoderSongs

[zbaranauskas@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss free applications

[stanislav@sk.excalgames.ru]

@itsfoss@mastodon.social
Free and customizable