Its amusing that you say that. The more you mess with linux the more youâll see that the distribution doesnât matter all that much. Most of the time there arenât any large differences between them. Itâs mostly what package manager is being used. Certain config files might be in a different place. A good example of this is the difference in where network configs are stored between Ubuntu and Redhat based distros. On Ubuntu its at /etc/network/ on redhat its /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ . At least that is the legacy way to do it. These days you should be working with network manager since it provides a handy dandy user interface
But for the most part every linux distro is pretty much the same as any other. Logs are still where logs go and most of them use systemd and the worlds favourite kernel
Iâm old enough to remember when that was important.
I also remember that Hurd hadnât been released because they were having trouble running it under emacs.
Strangely I havenât heard too many similar complaints about systemd.
Package managers predate Linux by a few years⊠But Chocolatey seems to be a reasonable Windows rip off.
Systemd replaces more than just Init scripts⊠Syslog, ntpd,⊠And it is only just beginning. (I know authentication is something they are looking at adding to systemd)
Pam works well enough. And frankly its annoying that networking is rolled into systemd when last time i looked there wasnât any good documentation on it.
Windows users are just lazy and accept all the tracking, unusablility and all other downsides, just because theyâre afraid to make an Ubuntu USB
Honestly everyone I know, including me, regretted not switching to a Unix like system sooner.
Itâs âYou Windows peopleâ, not the other way around
There is also us windows people who:
A: have to use it for work
B: enjoy gaming without issue (tried it a while ago I.e. within 6months and can still be pretty hard to get games up and running)
The worst bit is that the company I used to work for expected me to use Windows for all of the administrative crap but I was managing Linux and Unix servers so I either needed good tools or a second desktop.
I went the good tools route simply because I also used it as way to get administrator on my desktop box.
I mean sure, itâs laziness, but itâs not nearly as simple as just setting up a USB lmao. I donât have the time rn to set up the OS the way I want to, copy over important files, install everything, find and configure alternatives for things that donât have a Linux version, spend forever troubleshooting when I inevitably make a mistake, etc. Iâve spent years on windows getting everything just the way I want it. Doing the same on Linux isnât all that appealing
My argument is that you donât really know what you want and just made what you have tolerable.
Once you use a linux, found a good text editor and window manager, and wrote a couple simple convenience scripts youâll never look back.
Whatever, you do you, it was a joke, I donât actually care what OS you use, just what you use it for.
Use whatever lets you do your stuff.
Then youâre not part of âWindows peopleâ you just use it when you have to, thatâs normal.
Lots and lots of the games Iâve tried canât run under wine for whatever reason. Driver compatability issues ect ect I donât like it and hate it but not much I can do
I wonder what the collective noun for Linux users is 
