Comment by molteanu
I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?
I thought this was Hacker News! How come dumping Windows for Linux in the year 2026 makes the headlines?
Ah, so karma is a thing on HN as well. That would explain it.
Since 2001 I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Mint. I got rid of them at the first available opportunity. Elon Musk himself couldn't pay me enough to switch to Linux.
For some reason, there's a huge amount of Hacker News readers who are still full-time Windows users. With the forced migration to Windows 11, I guess a lot of them are now not only trying out Linux for the first time (as a desktop system), but also for some reason going for Arch derivatives, which is always fun to see a beginner mess with LOL
Desktop Linux is still very niche, even in technical communities like HN.
Easy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483432
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471199
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770