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Man, I love Linux
Switching has been really interesting for me. Before I moved I’d think “Man I don’t want to do all the troubleshooting and learning that is going to come with it”
But what happened is it reminded me that I enjoy learning and troubleshooting. I think the difference is the troubleshooting I have to do in Windows is typically trying to unfuck some bullshit Microsoft is doing that I don’t like. I’m usually mad on principle, and when I do unfuck whatever it is I resent that I had to do it in the first place.
In Linux it’s “I wonder if I can do this? I can! But does that mean? It does!” It has completely reinvigorated my love for computers.
Also, for whatever reason when I thought about switching I only ever thought about the troubleshooting. In my head it was like I would be switching to an OS that only exists to be worked on. I forgot that like once you set it up the first time you’re kinda done and it’s just like any other computer. You can futz and customize endlessly if you want to, or you can just stop.
I’m never going back
This is so true.
I didn't install Linux in anger, I did it in an autistic hyperfixation fueled mania (I was hyperfixating on Linux after reading an old compsci essay posted to an unrelated forum I frequented at the time, and just knew I had to actually play around with it a bit to make the nasty side effects of a hyperfixation go away), but... yeah. When fixing shit on Windows, I'm usually already mad going into it. When fixing shit on Linux... I have so fucking many "Wait, if that means that, then can I do... I can! Yay!" moments. And, usually, "fixing shit" means "trying to change a minor annoyance" or "trying to do something cool", not "trying to resolve an error preventing something I need from working correctly". (Or, when something breaks that isn't something I can manage to fix, I'm far more prone to resigned acceptance and working around it than incandescent anger, which makes using Linux better for my health than using Windows. Because excessive stress takes years off your life. Today, I plugged my laptop into an external monitor and got it working how I wanted it, except that the laptop keyboard wouldn't work once I connected the monitor. Troubleshooting first step: Grab a spare external keyboard and see if that works on laptop's USB port or monitor's. It worked and I just left it for now. We'll see if anything changes when I next reboot the thing.)
I get the exact same "Using A Computer" experience I remember from when I was four, whenever I decide to find out "OK, can I do X, and how do I do it?" It's the best.
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incandescent anger
best two word description of what using windows feels like ive ever seen
Yeah, it is. Like, having to fix broken shit or unwanted behaviour on a Windows box makes me so much angrier, because just using it has already made me so fucking angry at it.
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Multiple
Installs of
Linux
Fuck you, Microsoft
Installing Linux
many times to one PC.
Fuck you, Microsoft.
Man,
I
Like
Fedora
Mounts I'd Like to Fstab
Not if your file explorer is dolphin and your taskbar is plasma shell
I use Fedora btw 
M'linux
No data collection?? 
AI: A product so bad they have to force it on you.
Nice of Microsoft to be Linux’s marketing department all free of charge, eh Hexbear?
I dunno who said it or in what context but I heard recently "If you cannot decide what your computer does and does not do, you do not own your computer." and I've been thinking about that a lot.
Sounds like something Torvalds would say but I can't remember
Sounds more Stallman than Torvalds to me.
Torvalds isn't ideological in that way, it doesn't seem like something he would say. He's usually on about how open source (the guy embraced the corporate-friendly rebranding) is/was instrumental in the success of the Linux project and that he personally likes working that way, i.e. from home, over email, in his own time.
yeah maybe not i wish i could remember where i heard it
Sure do love to make my computer have more useless features and spying apparatuses at the cost of system performance
Microsoft doing some really great advertising for Linux lately
Im just gonna stay on windows 10 forever
I'm just going to stay on Linux forever
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
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