I made the switch around this time last year and haven't looked back. A few things have taken a bit of effort to figure out, but largely it has been a breeze. I should've done this many years earlier.
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I got my good bud to finally swap to Linux months ago. We have to occasionally boot windows for some games. He laments it every time, even despite having plenty of issues on Linux. Windows just feels worse in every way. He said "At least the problems on linux are fun and I can fix most of them." - and he's no linux expert.
Maybe it's finally almost the year of the linux desktop :')
I get it. Problems in Linux feel like they're mine. I prefer it.
The agency of just being able to fix something yourself is amazing.
Most of my open source contributions are bug fixes and reports. Canβt do that with closed source!
"Windows: We broke it for you."
The worst part about windows problems is search engines return pure unadulterated garbage. You can search 100 different windows issues and get 7 sets of results.
Thats my exact thing on Linux. It has "issues" but theyre fricken fixable. And they won't happen again, likely. With windows its way harder to fix anything if it won't work beyond the "close and reopen again" technique and then if you do fix it a damn update breaks it again!!! Plus the bloat and spyware, ick.
Just fixed a fairly common issue with Windows Update on my wife's W11 machine. Stuck at 99% forever. All you need to do is terminate the Windows Update process and try it again, or delete a cache somewhere.
Want Windows' "official" advice if you're "having trouble"?
Try reinstalling Windows . π ROFL
I was also quite unnerved when the "location data" task item came up on startup, and listed Windows Explorer as using it for a second. Sorry what? Wtf does Explorer need location data for?
So happy to go back to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I want to convert some family members' computers too when I finally get a chance for it.
Until the next update
Yeah. When I can't do something on Linux, or something breaks, I may have to figure out how to fix it, but most of the time it's less painful to fix than just trying to do basic stuff on windows and getting paywalled/adspammed/stuck in some kind of error hell you can't fix even if you know what's wrong.
My windows dual boot rig gets progressively less use on the W11 boot over the last year. I may move it to an even smaller SSD... It only exists to run a few programs.
I
100% relatable. There is a huge difference between, "It broke and I can fix it or that's annoying but not worth me spending time to learn how to change it (but I could if I was really really bothered by it)" and "It broke again and Windows forced another update and it's broke and now I have to fix it or that's annoying and it bothers the shit out of me and and there is nothing I can do to change it."
Things just feel way better, even when it's all going wrong, when the problems are within your control. I left Windows a long as time ago because of this very thing.
I only boot it to play wardogs or to debase myself by playing league of legends or rainbow 6 (rarely thankfully). otherwise proton works for literally every other game I play. i never would have envisioned this ever being the case 10 years ago.
Windows is a bloated corpse and I wait for the moment I can reclaim its SSD space with bated breath
Got to know a 66yo woman recently. She is not great with tech but curious and wants to try things.
So, she got herself a new laptop for work. Old one was "old" and couldn't do things. Someone gave her a tip to install Linux on it. She did. She claims Linux Mint made her laptop work again.
Today I gave her access to my Jellyfin instance. She couldn't run a movie off her windows laptop but Linux one worked straight away. Same Browser and all. Weird, right?
If you guys could just stop fucking jinxing it!
;D
I have windows installed for some work-related stuff still, but I can't use it because windows decided it doesn't want to connect by wifi and I'm not gonna buy more hardware to just maybe get windows to be functional. Linux just works with it without having to mess with drivers, install software, etc. Also my work laptop won't connect to my bluetooth headset anymore after an update, so I have to connect it to my phone and then use AudioRelay to have wireless audio on my laptop. If just one
Meanwhile linux problems are mostly just companies not wanting to support linux, so finding workaround to get their software to run or finding alternative software that works. The core functionality just seems so much more reliable, so I'm not constantly just trying to find ways to deal with all of the new problems that come out of nowhere.