4 days?
Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush
I run Windows and still look at them like this
Mostly because they aren’t competent enough to remove the bloat.
As they should.
Hell yeah!
The first few days is where you realize “holy shit, there is another world I’ve been ignoring and it’s so much more fun.”
I had been dual booting bazzite for about a year, up until last weekend when it borked and I wound up just reinstalling. I just deleted everything and went pure linux. Still bazzite, still a little scared of the terminal, but windows is completely gone from my computer.
And after 30 years, same thing.
Meanwhile, people who’ve been using linux for 10+ years…
https://64.media.tumblr.com/13aa5f9a193fec7df0dbf39f654d4d82/tumblr_moatn8ntC31rp0vkjo1_500.gif
And rightfully so.
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I went to Linux at the beginning of the year and “had” to install windows onto a drive this past weekend, I’ve looked at myself this way in the mirror everyday since.
I installed Linux on my PC this week, so yeah.
Spill the beans! What distro are you running?
Simple and easy: Mint.
Mint until someone makes a distro Karlach themed.
Be the change you want to see in the world
BTW?
I want that feeling to disappear, by having Linux completely dominate the OS space.
Microsoft Linux is what you want.
Unfortunately, that’s where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.
I think we’re a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.
Sex is cool and all, but that feeling of something natively supporting Linux….
Then it will just be distros shitting on each other…
End Linux Racism!
Justified imo
Even 4s would be fine, anyone who’s made the move is better than anyone who’s stayed.
Even 4s would be fine
install finishes
“That was it?.. Heh. Of course it was. This is Linux, afterall. Not some grotesque accumulation of defects for those base creatures.”
Yeah honestly even if you try it and give it a fair chance but still decide to go back that’s fine with me.
In that case the user has made a choice is the good thing. They’ve seen what options are there and decided Windows fits their needs best. That’s better in my mind than a world where everyone accepts the OS that comes preinstalled on their machine as permanent and doesn’t consider alternatives.
Ive been Linux only for 3 years and I gotta say, I still can’t convince myself to move to a stable release. Opensuse tumbleweed is just on another level.
A fish of distinct tastes.
Updates, roll out!
Ma Man!
Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af…
I get a hit of dopamine just doing mundane tasks on Linux.
i’m still in awe i can literally just play videogames on linux.
The progress in the last 2 years has been nothing short of amazing.
The KDE team, Wine, Proton, TKG/GE/etc have worked miracles for the Linux community.
Also, shout out to Microsoft for spectacularly face planting in their move to Windows 11/CoPilot/Vibe coded OS development. Nobody deserves more credit for Linux’s growth than Microsoft’s complete failure to innovate as an operating system developer.
the best part is that they didn’t even need to innovate, they just had to not ruin it
The siren call of enshittification-driven short-term profits was too strong.
Little did we know that their long LONG term plan was actually “EmbraceIncompetence, ExtendBlueScreens, ExtinguishSelf”
Can confirm, I’m using arch btw and every three
pacman -Syu's I run into issues that are new to meOne day I will figure out what other Arch users do and why my installation had not a single issue in the 3 years it has been running so far.
Jup. I think I’ve had some 3 actual issues the past 2 years on EndeavourOS. But the Endeavour team did a good job of warning me on Discord/RSS or at least provide tutorials and explanations afterwards.
One of the issues was in regard to Grub (fixed by Timeshift rollback and a one-liner), one was in regard to some rogue Nvidia bug crashing the login window (fixed by Timeshift rollback and waiting a few days before updating again), and one was Nvidia removing support for GTX1000 cards and older (Nvidia, WHYYYYYYYY?!).
For reference, I had what felt like similar annoying bugs (and much worse) on Windows 10 about every month, but without any useful support from Microsoft. :(
I was thinking the same thing, I have installed it on a laptop and it’s almost boring how it just works.
Heh, that’s on you, bazzite here (was arch for a few years 4+ish years ago) can’t remember the last time an update was problematic (oh, wait, 42->43 broke a distrobox, but I do that myself all the time, it’s what they’re for).
you know what distro I would choose if I were prone to tinkering at the expense of the system’s month-to-month stability?
lmao :) Have fun.
It’s been 9 years since I set my system up, so…
Please do.
On regular Fedora 42->43 broke (or forgot to change?) a few SE Linux rules for me, so that I got constant notifications about violations. Otherwise it’s been rock solid so far.
Yeah, if you dig through journalctl (and you should once in a while) it gives you the commands to fix that stuff if you think it’s right. That said, would be nice to not have to do that.
Just nuked my CachyOS install with a routine update and switched to Bazzite after repairing it in chroot failed. I enjoyed the entire process, even the failures.
I’m on arch now (BTW) and I’m eyeballing fedora atomic sway.
You get issues every fifteen minutes? Damn.
Well, I used enough linux to be angry about a lot of things.
Well I know I’m superior because I don’t use the OS that funds a pedo’s STD collection via stock value.
