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Linux has been "good enough" to be a daily driver for years. There is very little you can't accomplish with it unless you are running some very specific software that won't run under Wine/Proton well. Even then, you could just run a VM and have a crappy windows install run in seamless mode so you can run the software that won't work well under emulation.

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>I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, I'd be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things with their minds.

Linux has been "good enough" to be a daily driver for years. There is very little you can't accomplish with it unless you are running some very specific software that won't run under Wine/Proton well. Even then, you could just run a VM and have a crappy windows install run in seamless mode so you can run the software that won't work well under emulation. Archive: https://archive.today/6JNW2 From the post: >>I'm all-in, baby. I'm committed. If upgrading any distinct component of my PC didn't require me taking out a loan right now, I'd be seriously considering switching my GPU over to some kind of AMD thing just to make my life slightly, slightly easier. I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things with their minds.

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I hold a certain level of resentment to these people. Not because I'm not happy to see linux get more users. But I remember trying to use Mandriva back in 2009 and wanting to die because it was such a harsh learning curve. Even 10.10 version Ubuntu was brutal compared to XP

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Strange, I was rocking Jeos at command line, I don’t recall it being all that hard. I was rocking free VMware what 2.2 or something and spawning a few containers for testing.

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My start was on Puppy Linux, because we only had dialup and it's whole thing was being small and running straight out of RAM back then. It started as a 40 Mb download, and it felt easier and nicer to use than Damn Small Linux, it's primary competitor at the time. It was fast too.

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Puppy was special for sure. I liked that distro a lot. Wasn't something to use as a daily driver but as a rescue or a benchmark distro is was fantastic

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I once spent damn near a week getting audio drivers working in redhat in the late 90's. That was "fun".

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I remember my first job, CompUSA. I saw packaged copies of redhat for like 100 bucks. I remember asking a few of the guys about it because I'd never heard of Linux, and they just said it was a funny version of windows that doesn't work right. Like those weirdos who used OS/2 with Lotus Notes and stuff.

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That is funny. I did have commercial copies of Redhat and Suse at one point very long ago. I don't remember what they cost. I think the suse one was from a garage sale for dirt cheap and was one of the ones where the like 10 CD's came with a book on it too. I never really liked suse.

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Linux is NOW cancer infected by

  • systemd
  • wayland

BOTH of them done by the same person that now works for Microsoft

BOTH of them done to cripple Linux at the level of windows

you want to know why wayland is CRAP ? read what kicad has to say about it