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[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm halfway competent, spent 10 years in IT and even compiled my own kernel back in the early 2000s.

My last 3 attempts at running Ubuntu turned into complete and utter failures, including having to totally reinstall the system over the top of itself because the system became so corrupted it wouldn't even boot.

And, I barely got steam to work on it. I wasted hundreds of hours and ended up with a barely functional computer that couldn't print, didn't support my computers wifi card, and 90% of my work programs aren't available.

Oh, and someone please support AMD video cards.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Truth hurts I guess? I have worked in IT for more than 25 years, installed Slackware from floppies in the 90s and have tried Linux countless times since. Every. Single. Time I end up wasting my time trying to fix hardware drivers or being forced to accept the programs I want to use don’t work on Linux and the alternative programs are just plain worse.

Oh and I have used Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, Mint, Slackware, Pop! Os, Alpine, Gentoo.

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