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I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by cybercatgurrl »

Micrococonut wrote: post #83

I switched to bazzite-dx for my personal computer ~6 months ago. i7-13700K / 5070 Ti / 32GB DDR4 / 5120x1440 240Hz HDR It's been perfect for me. The included Bazaar app store is very impressive compared to something like the apple app store. It reignited the lost joy of opening up the app store to find something new and interesting. A wonderful contrast to current meta of app stores just being a front to push expensi…

1Password simply doesn’t work on immutable distros. instant deal breaker for me

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by herbst »

osigurdson wrote: post #29
soperj wrote: post #10

I'll keep knocking on wood, but as a Thinkpad user who has used fedora as a daily driver since Fedora 19, I've rarely had any issues with Linux. Battery lasts way longer than the Thinkpad I use for work (windows machine), and mine is older. I don't game though, so there's nothing that I've wanted on windows.

I have some issues with docking and audio with Arch. Maybe I am asking too much to have a docking station work perhaps. I still don't feel the need to go back to Windows however.

For lazy arch try manjaro. I love arch, but I am lazy so my machines mostly just run manjaro. Same fun, less of these issues

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by t0bia_s »

Using Fedora for years, but not on workstation. Because of Adobe, the only reson that I stick with Windows LTSC IoT.

And no, Gimp is not alternative. Neither Affinity, bucause lack of linux support. Or Capture One. Only DaVinci resolve is competition to Premiere because of linux support.

I'm curious if Adobe ends because of unsustainable pricing models and aggressive terms of use (no offline more than week, constant data sending to adobe servers) or because of Ai. Because post-production via complex tools will soon became obsolete compared to prompt-like editing.

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by hnarn »

Maybe if the ”Linux-curious” would stop using distros like Omarchy and other riced up Arch derivatives and instead try something like vanilla Debian or Fedora, they could spend more time using Linux and less time whining about how unstable ”Linux” is because you don’t understand what a rolling distro is.

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by anthk »

cryo32 wrote: post #85
retrochameleon wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Full time linux user for 8 years now. The knowledge base of discussion around Linux issues is vast and usually has the answers you need. Albeit with the variety of distros and their differences you must be mote scrutable in identifying what is applicable to your situation. Stick with mainstream like Ubuntu and you will have tons of community support and knowledge to search through.

Until your machine goes into a coma when you close the lid. On mainstream Ubuntu. This shit still happens today.

Windows 11 randomly crashes the taskbar after resuming my SO's notebook, something expected under the ugly KDE4 alpha days (and the alphas for KDE3 with kicker).

But KDE at least recovered kicker (the panel) over after a message. Windows 11 shows up nothing.

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by kuglimon »

isityettime wrote: post #94
gbro3n wrote: post #68

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Similar to this, but NixOS. Having AI to help me through made this so much easier. I was sold on the idea of an 'IaC' config based machine, after a general push to move all of my processes towards full GitOps. Windows had been pretty good to me (running 4 years on the same laptop install), but it had started overheating with fans sounding like a vacuum cleaner and it was time to start over. The difference with NixOS…

In my first years with NixOS, I really wanted to share my enthusiasm and joy with others. But I often got caught up explaining the mechanisms, the insights that it's built on. It took me a while to come around to realizing the heart of it: NixOS feels really good to use because it frees you from the uncertainty of a machine that suddenly changes underneath your feet. It gives you a system that is really easy to inspe…

My experience with explaining NixOS is that once you get to the benefits people get intimidated and start telling how they never have these issues.

I think immutable distros/software are the most intuitive way, even if people get intimidated with the idea. What's the action you did as a junior when windows/linux/x broke? You most likely reinstalled. When encountering issues we tend to try to emulate immutability.

The sad thing about NixOS is that there's 0% chance of seeing it used at work. Even in the devops people you're lucky if people can edit a Dockerfile. Good luck spending the next 3 years explaining it might look like json but it's not, and it would help to learn the syntax.

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by marysol5 »

MostlyStable wrote: post #9

The idea that Windows doesn't have it's own weird, mysterious, issues is hilarious to me. For months my windows 10 install would take nearly 5 minutes to start up after a full shutdown sequence. This was with the install on a fast SSD. I tried a whole bunch of things and never figured out what the issue was. Then, one day, it just....went away. I'm not trying to make much of a point other than that: anecdotes aren't…

Hell, MS's own "official" documentation for long-standing issues in Windows is to "disable this random key in the registry, we don't know what it is, but it 'works'"

Or "Disable IPv6".

It's so nonsensical when it comes to Windows World that people put up with that shit

Re: I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows

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Post by marysol5 »

aworks wrote: post #71
happytoexplain wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The idea that Windows doesn't have it's own weird, mysterious, issues is hilarious to me. That's not what the author said. And anecdotes are perfectly fine - in fact, they are literally are all we have to write about. In this case, everything I've experienced and heard from others suggests that the author is correct. Linux distros are amazing, and their issues are generally fixable with experience, but the problem i…

I have a computer science degree yet continue to use Windows. Is it because I have 30 years of experiece knowing what to ignore?j I do also use WSL for the command-line.

I mean, how much "CompSci" do you apply to your OS on e day-to-do. Or even to diagnose an issue?

I feel that was half of this article...The author did ZERO investigations

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