Linux

I feel the same. Its been 20 years though.

There's so much good advice here.

On the other hand, sometimes problems solve themselves if you wait. I wanted to find a way to add text extraction to the screenshot utility in KDE Plasma — a feature I missed from other operating systems. The solution was to wait a week until Cachy updated to Plasma 6.6, which added that feature.

Preach.

"Wait a week until its fixed" has saved me from screwing up my own CachyOS install, even if I identify the issue well enough.

But if my browser in Linux can’t find my webcam mic because I installed EasyEffects without bothering to read the docs, brother, that’s on me.

YES.

Distros like this are pretty great out-of-the-box. If you start installing stuff from the AUR and things break, that is your fault, as now you are the system maintainer.

Media coverage of Linux today is wildly different than the 2010s. It used to be vitriol to entertain the idea of using Linux. It was hoping that complaining about Windows enshittification and Apple pricing while still buying them would produce any results. More and more people will learn that they don't need the software they grew up with for their hobbies or indie projects. Don't need o365 to write your novel

Imagine you're having a conversation with a stranger. He seems cool, you guys share some interests, even some controversial opinions. You two are on track to becoming friends! ...But then right before the convo ends, he starts talking about how the earth is flat, and flouride in the water supply is a CIA conspiracy to make frogs gay.

That is the same visceral reaction I get when I read a sentence like this:

When I last wrote about my experience with CachyOS, I bemoaned the absence of the Arc browser.

About a year here, same. No windows for me, except work..

The only thing windows has for it is compatibility with certain software. Fortunately this gets better and better all the time, being able to run windows software under Linux has been great. Steam with it's proton has done wonders for gaming under Linux.

I'll never go back to windows. The only problem I had with Linux was mint didn't like two monitors on hdmi and one on the other kind of cord. Once I figured that out, games ran no problem. I can live with only two monitors.

After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all

Me. 2004.

Took me a week to say "welp, never coming back"

Look, if a guy at the Verge can use Linux then that means almost anyone can.

There's a dangerous bet going on right now that doesn't make the most sense.

It's Microsoft.

I just don't really understand their game right now. They're still playing like every card in the game is in their hand and they have nothing to lose, so I wonder, Linux friends, fellow enjoyers of hardware sold to the public, what do they know that we don't know?

It's almost as if Microsoft and every other hardware and mainstream software developer is secretly betting on the loss of private home computing. It's almost as if in the longrun, they aren't worried about our choices.

These Linux wins all over the place are cool and all, but the lack of any sweat whatsoever from these bozos has me on edge. Wtf is their game? From AAA gaming to your email client, it's all getting worse and they know it, they just keep doubling down.

There’s ridiculously little difference between Windows, OS X and GNOME nowadays. Once you realise that most of your Steam library works and you’ve hated Office for at least ten years anyway, that leaves browsers, which are exactly the same. Most users don’t want to fiddle with settings, installers and drivers, they’ll just accept what the machine comes out of the box with.