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Linux desktop appreciation post
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Yes indeed. I used to work in IT but due to a change in my life I'm doing something else now. Which means I only use Linux at home and only see Windows when I need to print. I keep Win10 in a VM, disconnected from the net, just to print. Which is rare.
But I remember well how crap Windows is, even on good hardware. The issues I had with Surface laptops at work was painful. I stopped ordering those for management because I'm the one who had to fix the issue they inevitably had. And that's MS' own hardware.
Even powerful graphics orientated HP machines would need regular rebooting to fix freezing issues on Win10.
Meanwhile the few Win7 and XP machines we had still in use, ran just fine, even though the hardware was 10+ years old ...
I'm on Linux Mint Debian Edition on a Mac Mini and it runs flawlessly.
Linux is really great, considering it's free of charge, and I wouldn't ever voluntarily run Windows again.