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Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows

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>In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn’t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids’ school on extremely short notice. There’s a reason it’s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows From the post: >>In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn’t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids’ school on extremely short notice. There’s a reason it’s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.
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It only gets better over time. Year 30 still brings no regrets aside from occasional worry that these young dipshit developers are going to try and reinvent what's not broken until they turn it into the same shit as Windows.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

Rust cultists aren't your average programmer with a new tool/language/paradigm that wants to rewrite everything using their new toys. They are hyper imposing cultoids who have a self-hosting compiler that no one has access to the original source code of (which could possibly be backdoored) who want to rewrite EVERYTHING vital to the Linux ecosystem in Rust and release it all under the MIT license. It is weird that fucking ALL of them do this - cookie cutter down to the last cultoid - and they make EVERYTHING political. All of this shit is emanating from IBM and Redhat who have become unbearably woke and hostile to people who either just want to write code and be left alone, or who don't want to use Rust.

TL;DR Rust is kiked shit all the way down.

[–] • 2 pts

20 something years ago it was a struggle. These days there is little Linux can't do.

[–] • 0 pt

Honestly the biggest hurdle is which office suite to pick. But 95% of all users just use a web browser for everything.

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[–] • 1 pt

There are others. LibreExcel is not as good as open office excel.

[–] • 0 pt

Yes, it good enough.

[–] • 2 pts

Wat?!,! You don't miss the "sign up for OneDrive" nag, the ads on your lock screen, the forced updates, your Office 365 subscription, your MSEdge updates? Who are you?

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The only thing worse than hiring some moron MBA to tell you "how to make more money from the system" is hiring a pajeet with a fake MBA telling you how to make more money from the system....

[–] • 1 pt

Thank God I saved that file to OneDrive

Now how the fuck do I find it?

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I've been running Ubuntu for years, mostly with a dual-boot of a different flavor just to see what the other builds had to offer. A few weeks ago I pulled the plug on Ubuntu for good (Thanks, Poalers!) and have been running Mint Cinnamon with zero issues or complaints.

The only Windows machine I have is the laptop my job provides.

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Used Linux in a professional capacity from 2000-2006, back in the bad old days of Linux. Picked it back up in 2019 and was impressed by how far it had come. Haven't looked at Windows since - and yes, I can play vidya on it too.

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I first started using it in the 90's. I remember taking nearly a week to get audio working on a (not so old at the time) 486 pc. I have used it ever sense. Professionally as well as at home, for personal projects, for game servers with friends. Just about everything.

It is amazing how far it has evolved over time. Its to a point that its basically "just install it" and it works. Sometimes there are odd quirks or problems but for the most part? It just works. It's still getting better too.

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I wish I could say finding and installing software on Linux was easier than windows.. that was not my experience, especially with games. Even as annoying as current day windows is.. the finding and installing part has never really been an issue.

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It depends. If you use something like Steam or GOG it's pretty easy. It not, it's a but more involved. That is also changing but I get it.