It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.

That's okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn't guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.

Literally any time Windows is mentioned

That's not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.

If I didn't have to use windows for work...

I have never gone to look for a windows community, is there one?

I don't use Arch, by the way.

We don't really do the same thing, because Microsoft is forced upon us every step of the way.

Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.

My theory is you are a Windows user wearing a mask.

Oh it does happen. I've had people tell me linux isn't a desktop OS multiple times and they listed ludicrous reasons that either are completely irrelevant or not true for like 10 years.

I've also had people tell me that PHP is a shit programming language and the reasons for them hating it were all outdated for like years or even decades. Once had some kid at a university I gave a lecture tell me "PHP doesn't even have classes wtf how are you coding in that shit?" my man classes were introduced in PHP 5 which was released 22 YEARS ago, you weren't even BORN when PHP5 was released.

Some people just want to hate something. Mostly if it's something that's "competing" with what they're using. And that's especially true in the tech world.

I quite literally just saw a post about liking Windows over Linux on Lemmy today... In fact, one of the comments used a version of this meme in reply.

Windows users complain and meme all the time about the linux fandom of the fediverse, which is what I assume OP was referring to.

I'll openly admit that I've made comments that could be interpreted as this comic. That said, I don't hate Linux or look to "dunk on" people, I just see a lot of really uninformed takes about Windows being tossed around and can't help but try to correct people.

Like someone said something abysmally wrong and very confidently, I asked them when the last time they used Windows, and they said it had been over a decade. I get that people pull that sort of thing online all the time, but when I see it it bothers me.

So I end up making the occasional comment defending Windows from blatant misinformation in a Linux thread, or insisting that the Linux experience still isn't as smooth as it needs to be for non-tinkerers.

Usually someone will pop up and call me uninformed or something, which is rich given I've been casually messing with Linux since before USB thumb drives were ubiquitous, and I have a little more than a decade of career experience in IT support and systems admin/engineering/architecture neck deep in a Microsoft environment.

I love Linux and open source software. I want it all to succeed. But Windows does have its place, it is valid for certain use cases, and is not anywhere as awful as it's made out to be. Especially if you have the tech chops to switch to Linux, de-crappify-ing Windows is of comparable difficulty and I have not had any of the supposedly unavoidable Windows issues people regularly cite in around a decade.

Switching to Linux is a more than valid choice, but I hate to see it happen only because someone isn't getting good troubleshooting information for a Windows issue.

I also have a seriously hard time keeping my mouth shut when Linux users claim daily driving a Linux Distro as a smooth process. It is leagues better than it used to be. Mind bogglingly so, and getting smoother every day. But it is still inevitable that you will hit a point of major friction and have to get deep into tinkering, and you will still likely need to make concessions in terms of hardware feature support.

I'm no stranger to tinkering. No stranger to compiling things myself, or even troubleshooting an error all the way down to a specific line of source code and making a PR to correct it.

But I've reached a point in my life where I don't want to be spending hours troubleshooting things that in my mind should "just work". I want more control than Apple offers, and less tinkering than Linux tends to expect.

So I keep up with the Linux space, use it on VMs personally semi-regularly, and maybe once a year give it a serious try as a daily driver. For now, stripped down/customized Windows installs on my gear is more than good enough.

I think the majority of Windows users know you can buy an Apple or a Windows, and that's all they know or care to know. The percentage of Windows users who know enough about Linux to decide they don't like it has got to be pretty low.

On the other hand, most Linux users know the other systems well enough to have a strong preference. This meme should be reversed.

Ooh, that's a good one! Is it a quote?