I fell into the rabbithole and have decided to stay.About more than a year ago, my curiosity has driven me to try using Linux.I'm not going to lie and say th...

Interesting video.

  • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!

    • Grass@geddit.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.

        • Grass@geddit.socialEnglish
          81·
          1 year ago

          The only red hat I know is maga hat and those aren’t welcome around these parts…

      • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 … I mean you’ve got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.

        • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          I don’t entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It’s usually some obscure error code that I can’t find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.

          Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.

          I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn’t have to use them to work on projects with others.

            • Grass@geddit.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              The only printers are brother laser and old models of other brand laser. Everything else is dead to me.

            • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              After how many decades of printers being in existence, they are STILL the worst peripheral. Did the inventor of the desktop printer sell their soul to the devil or something because I swear to gods every single one of them is possessed by troll demons.

              I used to have issues with CUPS and wireless printers. Then we replaced our home printer with the business flavour (next to no difference between them but for a couple of extra features including wireless)… This one gives us trouble when printing via LAN but is completely plug and play via wireless 😬😈🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

          • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.com
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’ve actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!

          • astraeus@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.

            • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I’m glad I don’t have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.

    • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.

      Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn’t quite as performant as native Windows.

  • Mysteriarch ☀️@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Three years completely on Linux, because I botched my dual boot and decided to try without the Windows partition and… never had to install it again! Happy user!

  • sphred5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Switched from windows to manjaro full time a couple years ago and have not looked back!

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Linux for 15 years and never had any issues with copy/paste. Ctrl+C/V works fine in GUI programs.

      Most terminal emulators use Ctrl+Shift+C/V since the Ctrl key is used to send ASCII control characters.

  • sphred5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Switched from windows to manjaro full time a couple years ago and have not looked back!