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How I feel after installing Linux instead of "upgrading" to Windows 11
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It's the feeling that keeps on giving too. Learning and working with a Linux distro is full of little victories, even if they are sometimes a little more hard fought than a Windows resolution.
I can only imagine it's how people feel when they perform a minor repair on their car or bicycle without taking it to a workshop and getting hosed for a three figure wad of cash.
Just this evening I learned the value of dpkg and fixed a broken Chrome install that had been bugging me for weeks if not months, and it's a skill I can use again in future.
I find I have a much larger reservoir of patience for open source issues vs. corporate software. It's easier to give it the benefit of the doubt when I'm not secretly suspicious that the latest issue might just be more spying and locking down of features I used to own.
Even in my most troublesome situations, they are less frequent and quicker/easier to resolve than my Windows hurdles.
I've lost so much time of my life dealing with Windows breaking, blocking, being randomly fucked on basics, requiring insanely complex workarounds to keep the engine running.
Windows is definitely the harder OS. But ya don't realise it until your first drive of a Linux distro. Then it becomes clear as day and you feel like you've been cutting off your foot to spite all the bullet holes you shot into it.
As a noob there were four things that sucked worse than Windows so far:
Properly mounting a NAS so file pickers in programs don't shit themselves or refuse to see it. There's no GUI feature even in KDE for this task. Should not be like this modern day. Mounting anything properly is annoying here.
Whatever the fuck KDE Wallet is doing prompting me for a password to mount a secondary SSD every login despite trying to make it not do that with guides. On going.
Learning about .pacnew files in etc, but meld thankfully takes the edge off dealing with diff.
Getting gud with all the gaming tools and compatibility tools to the point I'm proficient enough to mod most games again.
Not bad, all things considered. You're right that it's harder OS overall to learn. Still, I'd say I broke stuff on Linux about as often as I did bending Windows 9x and XP to my will growing up. Managed to make SDDM not start automatically by mistake dealing with .pacnew my first time.
To do: go through restoring one of CachyOS's system recovery snapshots even tho nothing is broken currently so I actually know how if/when I really need to.
Oh man, looks like I have a bunch of googling ahead of me.