Yeah I don't get these polls where the OP doesn't participate. Why doesn't he tell which OS (most probably Windows 10 Home) he is using, at least I am super-interested.

The lack of feedback from the OP usually makes me suspect it is a bot or that one guy in this forum making throwaway polls and threads just for the sake of it, possibly trying to increase its rep points so that it can start spamming links to the forum. However, in this case the user account is several years old so I don't see this as a probable reason.

We Linux users feel so special that we want to trumpet our choice of alternative OS to the world, more than the common and boring Windows 10 Home users.

In that sense we are a bit like vegans who drive a bicycle to the work, but we live longer than those bicycling vegan freaks.

Oh, did I mention I also drive an electric car? Sure I did because I am special that way too.

Desktops:
Windows 11 Pro
macOS 10.14 and Windows 10 Pro

Laptop:
macOS 13.4 and Windows 11 Pro

Misc:
DSM7
iOS on phone
Android 10 on tablet

This is the most quirky and interesting setup so far. I've run FreeBSD only as a virtual machine, and some sort of BSD is also running on one of our work servers.

How often do you need to upgrade Fedora (I think its EOL always comes quite soon?), and how burdensome is it to make a release upgrade for Fedora?

The reason for me to choose Rocky Linux 9.x as my secondary OS for my work laptop was that its end-of-life is somewhere in 2032, which is probably way beyond the life expectancy of that laptop. So I will probably never have to think about how to make a release upgrade for it, should I remove everything and install a newer Linux from a clean table etc...

When I "upgraded" its Windows partition from 10 Pro to 11 Pro, that is exactly what I did: removed everything related to Windows 10 (including the original recovery partition that came with the laptop), and installed Windows 11 Pro on it from a clean table. And then installed some Dell laptop tools on it afterwards, that are useful. I guess I just like to start things from a clean table, to minimize clutter and compatibility problems. Still remember back in the time when upgrading from a Windows versions to another, and it kept a huge backup of the old version on my hard drive without me realizing it.

Windows 10

I don't think it's that. I just think the type of person that values DRM free games vs corporate controlled games as a service is likely also the type of person that's going to value a free and open OS.

Since MS stopped supporting Windows 8.1 I hopped back on Linux. I've been using Fedora with KDE Plasma.

Plus is more likely to post on the forum of said DRM free store.

I suspect that Windows users of GoG are still in a majority (especially as the Galaxy programme is Windows based), but that there's a materially higher proportion of linux users here than using Steam and a higher proportion of linux users on the forum than the overall user population.

That, plus the fact that threads about operating systems are like catnip to linux users.

Yeah, you don't accidentally use Linux.

I kinda agree, but not really :)

For example, in this case it's hard *not* to talk about Linux when you're a Linux user and the thread question is "which OS do you use?".

I think it's way more likely that DRM-free resonates more with FOSS users, and GOG attracts them to their store. And although active GOG forum posters are in no way representative of the GOG gaming community, there's no denying there is certainly more than the usual 1-2% proportion of Linux gamers looking at threads and users (like this one). At least, that's my anecdotal impression.

Do the GOG installers work out of the box on Rocky, or does it require tweaking?

I'm asking because I'm contemplating switching from Ubuntu to RockyLinux.

These are the current machines that work:

1x W95 on laptop ToshibaCDT
2x W98SE on retro desktops (one with voodoo1 and tnt2)
3x WXP SP3 on diferent retro desktops (single cores, dual core)
1x W7 on miniPC
1x Ubuntu
1x W10 on desktop machine with 1060gtx
1x W10 on laptop
StemOS on deck
Android on mobile
Dosbox emulating a DOS machine on a thin client FUTRO

The systems I use that I chose because I had the option to:

On my main computer, Linux Mint 21.1 Xfce (it just works).

For Windows gaming and Microsoft Office, on an old laptop I have, Windows Vista SP2 x86_64 (it's surprisingly functional, unlike what people talk about it).

On my phone, ArrowOS 13 vanilla (based on Android 13).

On a laptop I don't have the courage to retire, I rotate between Win10 20H2, Linux Mint 21.1 Xfce, and BlissOS 15 FOSS (this last one based on Android 11; and "FOSS" because its vanilla Android with preinstalled MicroG and Aurora Store to replace Google's "basic" servies).

Oh, very neat, learnt something new today. I just run the games in Wine but not everyone wants to use Linux/GNU so a tip for aquaintances stored into my shrinking brain until the memory loss eats it.

You may be right there. I spelt it 'program' up until recently when my British friend chatted me using the longer spelling so I thought I would change my own spelling. I give you that they are not an IT person but used and played on computers for many years.
I am not averse to getting corrected or taught in the quirks of the English language.

I try to stick to once a year, though I've been a bit lazy and sometimes run the same version for 2-3 years.

So far upgrades on my end have been fairly painless. I also try to make sure the release I'm upgrading to has been out for a few months so they have a chance to iron out any silly bugs.

I can't deal with something like RHEL or Rocky because systems with old libs & old compilers are just infuriating to work with when you're developing against something newer. I don't want commits that add workarounds for old shit. Also in my experience new compilers always have improved static analysis so running a fairly recent system just helps kill bugs faster.