Purely to record / watch TV, films, etc.
I tried Windows Media Center (XP with some tweaks) and it was dire...
Found MythTV and decided I needed to "learn Linux" to get it done.
Now everything (except my work's laptop) is Linux (Arch btw)
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Why would you assume I switched?
-edit- It appears my comment wasn’t clear… I never used anything else than Linux on my working systems…
Because you should.
It's free, it works everywhere windows does and has a tool for all your needs.
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I'd just built my first PC and had no love for Win 3.1 which was rapidly becoming the default. I wanted to keep codíng having come from from Atari STs and had no desire to learn the windows APIs. An OS that came with C compilers by default was higher level than I was used to as I'd been doing 68000 assembler on the ST, but it was still low level enough.
IIt was also similar enough to the Sun IPCs and IPXs that I was using at university.
Switched from Mac (still on mac hardware via asahi alarm) for more feeedom and not having to deal with gatekeeper
I have been tinkering with Linux before, but some software needed Windows.
I tried switching those apps.
- Corel to InkScape went well, I instantly liked it better.
- MS Office to LibreOffice: I just don't need Excel that much, so it's OK.
- Corel laser engraving to K40Whisperer: a breath of fresh air, simple and efficient.
Then, free from all those chains I installed EndeavourOS, and it's been great.
Came from windows laptop that I got about a year ago, before then I was running unironically chrome os. I liked chrome os for it's Linux features. So when I did go from my Chromebook to a windows, it wasn't as fun. I also didn't like all the spyware on windows, and this was the time when I was removing myself from the internet as if I didn't exist, So it was inevitable I would switch.
The only reason why I haven't switched earlier is because I am a university student (currently in electrical engineering) and I was concerned that I would be given an exotic application that my laptop cannot support on Linux. Then I learned the majority of students have macbooks, so if it doesn't work for me it doesn't work for them too. That's when I made the conscious decision to switch from windows to Linux.
Currently trying out fedora workstation, it is like the Mac os of Linux operating systems (and that's a compliment).
Lack of support for Win10. Also, I'm a contrarian who doesn't want to be beholden to the whims of a multinational corporation.
i switched from ms dos to parabola because im afraid of the nsa getting their hands on my cp files.