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Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.

Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.

Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.

Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?

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[-] Minnels@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lmy first journey with Linux was really bad back in 2009 maybe with Ubuntu. Managed to get a server running after a ton of reinstalls of the whole OS. That thing ran for years until it broke last year. As I had read about Linux mint I gave that a try and let's just say it was a breeze to get working. Not a single problem anywhere in sigh. I gues so had to do some stuff in the terminal but my experience from years ago came in use so nothing I am unfamiliar with.

I ran windows 11 on my main computer and every time I wanted to check anything in the settings... No. Why is everything so hidden? Why do you have to ge through so many menues and categories when you want to find something. Write a name of a program you want to start in the start menu but instead of looking at the computer it defaults to a fucking bing search?! I had enough of this shit. Everything feels like a hassle every time I wanted to do anything outside steam so I just said fuck it and installed bazzite and I am never returning even if I still have windows on one of my drives. Booted it ONCE in 9 months and almost threw up.

I just want my computer to do what I want it to. I don't want those things to be hard to do. I have no problem to search the internet for help and terminal commands or how to edit files. Yes, the GUI of windows is easier but it drives me insane. It was a lot better before windows 7 or 10 whenever it changed a lot. I'd rather just look stuff up and type some commands.

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