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.
Shout-out to that guy who argued with me that onedrive doesn't randomly reinstall itself for no reason.
I'm closing on my six months anniversary of not booting into windows. I wish I had converted earlier as well.
Not having to deal with the whack a mole of problems that was windows is so very lovely.
A few ongoing bothersome problems that honestly amuse me, and I'm far less stressed when something does go wrong that I can't fix.
Haven't had a game (so far) that I couldn't get running, and really only miss one program that I could probably run under Linux if I really wanted to get dirty.
One ongoing problem for some of my games and it's so random that after spending an hour trying to fix it I decided I didn't care enough, because I wasn't having the crashes I used to under windows. (The game freezes, and will stay stuck until having tabbed out to Steam (and only Stream), tabbing to anything else the game stays hung. Then some process comes along that I don't see, frees everything and I'm back to playing happily.)
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 :')
As much as I like seeing people making the jump, I'm seriously surprised how many people are still putting up with microsoft. Like yes, I get it, your grandma won't care, but I know people who are absolutely capable of installing another OS but still stick with windows, even tho there's not a lot of software that just won't run on linux. Some games like fortnite or league, yeah, but other than that ... it's just weird. Especially because they keep yapping about something breaking or not working all the time.
It's been very entertaining to watch the microslop shitshow unfold watching from the sideline as someone who isn't using Windows at all. 10/10 can recommend. Back when I switched to Linux it's because I thought it was cooler, not because it was better. But now Linux is so much better. It's not even a contest. If it's a race windows showed up drunk, ran into the wrong direction and then straight into a wall.
For real, I have little to no patience with the myriad of Windows bitching posts these days. I'd say "skill issue", but Linux is easier to set up and maintain than Windows. The only work I've had to put in was when I decide to fuck with perfectly functional defaults just because I can.
10 years in and its hard to believe people even use Windows. Everytime I have to use it I feel dirty
Windows? just get some blinds smh
I've been watching this shitshow for two and a half and oh boy am I glad I bailed when I did. The last Windows I truly loved was 7 (I'd still use it if I could, but Mint can get close enough for me in terms of look and feel without too much ricing, and, like Win7, things just... work), everything Microsoft has done since has just been a slowly degrading dumpster fire.
I can't even remember the last time I logged in to Windows.
At first I didn't understand this because the bottom text was scrolled out of view. Then I scrolled down and was like "OMG YES!" I just love this. I'd totally buy you a beer to celebrate. Virtual cheers π»
Desktop linux has never been better.
Jumped to Bazzite a few weeks ago and already feeling pretty good about it. Not sure that I could have done it earlier (or at least would have kept Windows for dual boot), since I primarily use my PC for games and the improvements to gaming on Linux the last few years had been astonishing.
This! I didn't even realize how bad things were until I stepped outside. Using a sensible OS took a big load off my shoulders.
Hey, me too! I ditched W10 for Linux Mint in Sept last year, so much to learn but it's been a blast. I've never experienced having such a smooth working PC.
I really like nixos, which will not even tell you to reboot if the kernel is unchanged. Plus it will restart my services correctly when I update or pull new container images on my server.
Itβs very very nice.
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