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I'd used Linux a bit out of curiosity in the Windows XP era
Windows Vista came out and was completely unusable on the computers I or anyone around me owned. It was also harder to configure than Linux and the new UI looked worse than the Linux UIs at the time
So I switched and haven't been back to Windows since
I’ve been using and working with Linux since 1999 (big box Redhat 5.1). It was a hobby at first, but then it became a tool in almost every job I’ve held.
Now, on my personal PC I’ve bounced between windows and Linux (and some mad attempts at hackintoshing) since 1999.
But Windows Recall changed that.
Microsoft is doing what they’ve always done — try to control everything under the guise of “this is what the user wants” when not one damn person said “oh I want my operating system to take screenshots of everything I’m doing, AI-analyze them, store the data in an insecure database, and trust that Microsoft will never phone home about any of this”
So now I run Linux full time at home and all the games I play and want to play work perfectly fine.
gamescope
For what would make me completely move, I just want my games to work, I know a ton of effort has been made on that front, but Nvidia drivers kinda stink so performance is a bit worse or completely unusable in certain programs on wayland at least.
Stuff like Wabbajack Skyrim/FO mod organizer modlist support for Linux too, along with modding other games in general usually requires windows because of dll hooking being very common.
Never really have gone full Linux.
I run MacOS, Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora and BSD depending on the need of the box.
The one thing that lead me onto Linux, however, was the full hardware access in Docker.
Basically when Windows became pay-per-install. PCs stopped coming with an install CD so if you needed to reset from scratch you couldn't. I first tried Linux out of necessity because that was all I had to put on the machine in the house, and ended up never looking back.
I'm still on Windows 10, mainly for gaming. I probably won't switch (to PopOS or Mint) until Win10 EOL happens, primarily for gaming-related reasons.
I have an Nvidia card and can't afford to get an AMD, and most of my games are not on Steam (I really like GOG), so I'm hoping by that point Nvidia compatibility will have improved enough compared to last time I tried switching.
I mean FFS I went to PopOS like a year ago and couldn't even get Dragon Age: Origins to run, even through Lutris. It made me sad. :(
Was curious about the increased customisation so I went dual boot around the time of windows 7.
Went full time Linux when windows 8 came out. Windows has only continued its enshitification since then, so it really paid off.
Every machine I'm currently running would run like dog shit with windows, but runs like brand new with Linux Mint.
Windows was actually quite good when I made the swap. It was during the height of windows xp.
I did it because I am a curious guy, and wanted to know what it was all about. I've been full-time and had fun with it since then. :)
Wanted to hack WiFi when i was teenager, right now already close to decade of daily driving linux
When I was a kid, windows XP was having stability issues and I wanted to play minecraft. Switched to Linux and had no issues.
Windows update would always start doing stuff whenever I turned on my PC and would slow it down to a laggy crawl until it finished. This increased the pressing the power button to doing what I need to do time to 15 minutes.
I knew that Linux updates worked differently so I tried it out. And I was right. Oh so right
For me I got super annoyed by the taskbar not hiding and unhiding correctly. Other one was the search not working correctly on start menu and many times just stalling and nothing happening.
Those were the ones that broke the camel's back.
Started learning web development.
I was toying around with the idea of doing my classes and early dev work on linux, hearing it's got a lot less roadblocks and annoyances, and that checked out.
I've been running it on all of my systems as main OS since not too long after that, and don't intend to go back
It's just that i wanna learn more about computers. At the time with Windows I didn't think i could really understand what is going on behind the scene. It hides too much stuff from the users and there was a weird idea in my head that the advanced use of computers is supposed to be in the command line, Windows just doesn't seem to be the right choice. I don't play much games or even heavily use computers in general, so my laptop basically became a big toy for me to tinker with.
I think it was around the time of the windows 10 beta, I was trying that out and also dual booting with Linux mint.
I remember being a little frustrated with getting games to work great on Linux, but even more frustrated just using Windows. So I thought "Linux makes me less mad, I'm just going to use that"
I was dual booting Linux and Windows 10 like 4 years ago, and then Windows somehow got rid of GRUB entirely, pissed me off enough to remove Windows, haven't used it on a personal computer since then.
when I realized my hardware no longer worked for me it worked for microsoft and dell and hp etc. I was done.