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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, because Windows is a steaming pile of garbage and using Mac feels like swimming with pool floaties.

I recently started using NixOS as my distro and it has been phenomenal. Saying the learning curve is a little steep is like calling a hurricane a little bit of rain, but once you start to get it, it's extremely powerful and delivers on the promise of "all of your configuration in one place." It gives me a lot of peace of mind to know that every time I tweak or fix something, it's reliably making it into a version controlled and backed up repository. I could throw my laptop out the window, pick up a new one, and have all my applications installed and configured within half an hour.

[โ€“] refalo 1 points 6 months ago

Honestly, because Windows is a steaming pile of garbage and using Mac feels like swimming with pool floaties.

Obviously you are not their target market as the vast majority of their users do not have such extreme complaints about the OS.