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.
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.
Switched before Windows 7 came out on my personal computer. Vista was a disaster.
Switched fully to Linux at work too much more recently. Feels good.
10 years in and its hard to believe people even use Windows. Everytime I have to use it I feel dirty
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.
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 🍻
Desktop linux has never been better.
Haha, yes. Same.
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.
You can say “skill issue” anyway, even if the skill is flashing an image to a USB stick
Windows? just get some blinds smh
How has nobody developed a distro called Blinds or Curtains yet?
This is the way
Finally managed to get most games working on Mint . The only thing I still need Windows for is VR desktop for gaming. Once someone makes a decent Linux version then I’m pretty much done.
That’s my holdout too! But then Windows forcibly removed support for WMR to paperweight those anyway, so…
What headset do you use? They just ported the Oasis driver to Linux for WMR devices (I have a Sumsung Odyssey+) and I can’t wait to try that!
There’s also the “Envision” project that streamlines getting all the drivers and builds and stuff going for various headset software on Linux. Some have better results than others. :)
Some really good guides here, and there’s also a (hrk 🤢) Discord called “Linux Vr Adventures”
I can’t even remember the last time I logged in to Windows.
I sometimes have to, but it kind of makes me feel I have to wash my hands afterwards.
If it wasn’t for work, if never log into windows. At home, pure Linux.
I face some issues with updates on linux breaking things (Arch btw) but it’s usually an hour debugging and then a “hey, someone already made a fix for this as a pull request that you could install now if you compile from git”.
That’s a hassle, but it’s better than spending an hour debugging, realizing the only real solution is to wait for a hotfix from the powers that be, then several more hours trying to get a workaround, then the five stages of grief ending in admitting defeat and waiting for the hotfix that’ll break something else.
On Linux, there’s always a way to do what you want to do, with all the risk and reward that comes with that.
I’ve been pretty happy with being downstream of Debian stable. I’ve only been burned by outdated packages a couple of times, which hasn’t been that bad. I’m much more of a “set and forget” type of user.
that is the beauty of Linux distributions. there is something for everyone
Going to linux from windows was eye opening. No more ‘oh you don’t want this well we’ll remind you again in a few days’ or microsoft trying to upsell their services on my own machine or fighting with the operating system in order to do something simple. It is so nice to feel like I own my own machine.
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.
Same, Windows 7 was the last one I used too, but I was already dual-booting with Linux before then. Once Microslop rolled out the Windows 8/10/11 idiot parade, I jumped to Linux entirely.
I’m a mint guy myself. Never disappoints
Also the bitlocker issues: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3163280/junes-windows-10-patch-has-a-bitlocker-lockout-problem-again.html
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 :')
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.
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?
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.
then if you do fix it a damn update breaks it again!
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 . 😂 ROFL
Plus the bloat and spyware, ick.
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.
And they won’t happen again, likely.
Until the next update
ive had pretty good results with wine/proton for gaming on linux. i dual booted for a while but it felt like climbing in a polluted swamp every time i booted up windows, and it kept fucking up my boot partition randomly. giving it up for good hurt for a second but it was so worth it its crazy. i dont even use it at work anymore.
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
Maybe it’s finally almost the year of the linux desktop :')
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.
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.
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I get it. Problems in Linux feel like they’re mine. I prefer it.
“Microsoft Windows: Why wait? We broke it for you.”
The agency of just being able to fix something yourself is amazing.
Most of my open source contributions are bug fixes and reports. Can’t do that with closed source!
