• Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    That’s a logical fallacy, all dogs are animals does not imply that all animals are dogs. Even if all programmers you know use Windows that could still mean that all Linux users are programmers.

    That being said several relatives use Linux because I refused to help with IT unless they had Linux, and since then they mostly hadn’t needed IT support. So it’s not true that all Linux users are programmers, but a good percentage of us are.

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      5 months ago

      I was not explaining my logic nor my beliefs, just describing my smol sample (introvert!), as a btw fun fact.

      But I was under the impression that there is no distinguishable difference between which OSs use programmes vs non-programmers (and the other way around).
      Perhaps bcs I fail to se any specific connection between the two. But yes, my logic would be that both types use and are used by both to roughly the same extent.

      (Haha, exactly same experience with relatives - forced them on Linux, never had anything non-trivial to fix since then.)

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        5 months ago

        I’m a programmer! I use Linux and Windows. In fact, I’m now in my second job in a Microsoft shop (and no, neither were/are .NET…). And I’ve had exactly zero jobs where I was issued or allowed to use a Linux machine.

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          5 months ago

          allowed

          Yeah, wtf, what did Linux ever do to the great furry community sys admins?

          Our group is still fully on Windows all the things (except like two virtual servers), desktops all run W10.

          I will again plead in this years strategy to not upgrade to W11, if for nothing else ‘moral reasons’.
          I’ll be the only one tho.