Did this in 91 as well. Going well ever since.
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
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Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
*GASP* OH NO THEY MIGHT LEARN A SKILL!!!! Snark aside, I really really don’t understand the aversion, even within the tech community, to learning new skills especially as it pertains to Linux. Would having new knowledge be such a burden? Why is it something to avoid? Why is it not a good thing if normal people learn more about computing? Do we want a population of iPad baby Linux users? Normal people can use it now,…
Partly, the issue isn't "they would have to learn about Linux, and that's bad", it's "they would have to learn about Linux, and they wouldn't want do that, and so they would get frustrated and quite likely give up on it, and my recommendation would have been a waste of their time". The other part is that they're not necessarily wrong not to want to learn about Linux! Learning is great, when it's something interesting…
> Most of us choose to drive a car that just works, and take it to a mechanic when it doesn't, rather than buying one that requires and rewards tinkering.
You can also bring your Linux machine to the mechanic. The only difference is that we linux users are also the mechanics.
My mother only wants a browser and a mail client, maybe a word processor from time to time. I installed Fedora, and the thing is still working after 5 years or so. I ssh into the thing once a month to do a "dnf update", she doesn't even notice. After initial setup, no more tinkering ever needed.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#203My experience: I came from windows to MacOS so despite what folks bemoan about MacOS ... I still love it and it is problem free enough that I don't feel the need to do the lifting to go to Linux. I think that's a common thing for those of who maybe haven't ridden MacOS for so long. Windows for me is on a whole several levels of worse when I have to dive back into it. Windows feels like an OS POINTED AT ME rather than…
> it is problem free enough
The money's paw curls.
I used to love macOS, back in the Mojave days. You could run almost anything you wanted, and still get work done on a decently made machine. Those were the days when the grass truly felt greener to me, macOS for creative work simply annihilated any other option on the table.
Then Catalina stripped out 32-bit compatibility, ruining my Ableton Live project folder and Steam library. And Big Sur removed the sleek, professional-looking UI that I loved. Apparently Tahoe is infecting it with the glass disease, but I've long since migrated to Bitwig and Steam on Linux.
macOS taught me, ultimately, that any feature you take for granted can be removed to fulfill someone's OKR.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
>unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop Lol, that's what Microsoft tried 10+ years ago and everybody gave them shit for it, especially Apple fans. Now Apple is "inventing" this again.
Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux on a tablet. It was kind of a disaster. Ubuntu is a commercial entity though, so yeah, prone to the same kind of bad management decisions. as Microsoft and Apple. At least with Li…
I also still have tons of issues waking from sleep mode on various PCs running Win10/11 so I wouldn't be so quick to label it an OS issue.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Come back when I can run Linux on a laptop that has 12+ hours battery life, runs fast, that’s lightweight, quiet and doesn’t cause infertility from the heat when I put it on my lap…. Using an x86 laptop in 2025 is like using a flip phone 6 years after the iPhone came out. Of course if you are a gamer, ignore everything I just wrote.
One good thing is choice. You are free to use macOS or even windows. But this battery argument is bull shit 15 years ago it was so difficult to find charging points. Not now. I have never ever been in a situation the I needed to be away from charging for > 6 hours. 6-10 hours is really possible. If your working or life demands that then pity you. I have better life/work. And again choice. You are free to use macOS or…
My “work life” involves business travel - consulting.
My personal life involves month long stints of me working outside the home and even at home, I am sometimes working on the patio enjoying 80 degree weather in the middle of winter in Florida…
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#206I recently switched to linux from windows. The only reason I was sticking with windows was because hoyoverse refuses to support linux. I finally decided I need some break from them anyways and took the plunge.
First, I tried to install fedora atomic cosmic. It kind of worked but I could not get it to work with my dock + external monitors at all. Now that I am used to that setup, I can't go back.
Not wanting to spend time figuring it out, I just installed Ubuntu instead. Thankfully, that worked out though it's not perfect. Everytime I turn on my laptop, I need to spend 10-15 minutes turning the monitors on and off until ubuntu recognises them correctly and also sends dp output (it shows the monitor in settings and I can open windows on it but the monitor doesn't actually show anything; other times, it reads the monitor as something nvidia with the lowest resolution).
I tried to install genshin anyways on ubuntu. I couldn't get it to work via wine/lutris. Virtualbox doesn't support gpu passthrough so I tried using virt-manager. The setup was too hard and it didn't work anyways. I gave up on hoyo at this point and install steam instead.
Honestly, ubuntu is rough and Linux as a whole is very rough. But on the whole, I would still pick this over dealing with windows any longer.
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#207In case of small enterprises, what are the options for migrating to Ubuntu for all remote users? How does one have an MDM solution? Most of the solutions out there are poor on Ubuntu or need lots of work to get things right. Can anyone provide a reference architecture/solution that allows them to be SOC2 compliant? But also not have high friction for developers and more importantly not have bigger overheads on proces…
The industry standard endpoint security solutions all run on either Windows or Mac. Endpoint security is an absolute MUST for a corporate environment.
What is RHEL, chopped liver?
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
And how many laptops running Linux are light, power efficient, fast, quiet with good battery life? My 16 inch M3 MacBook Pro runs 5 hours at 80% brightness doing development with my USB powered (video and power from one USB cord) portable monitor. The Mac battery is powering the monitor https://a.co/d/gHqpcs3
Pretty much every laptop on the planet will run Linux. Maybe your optics are tinted because you seem to be a Mac person, and Linux support for newer Macs has known issues with low power modes. I note how your 12+ hour claim was reduced to 5 hours when you actually put it to real work. It's still impressive, of course, but 5 hours aren't out of reach for Ryzen laptops either. BTW, I have a RISC-V platform with 8 1.6GH…
It’s not “running Linux” that’s the issue. It’s running Linux and getting good battery lifez
And a 1.6Ghz RISC V CPU isn’t exactly “fast” in 2026 or even 2021.
You noted that it was 5 hours when powering a second monitor from its USB port. Not just displaying video from the USB port, the monitor is getting power from the USB port.
How long do you think your 5 hour laptop would last powering an external display - again not just video out, also supplying power?
Re: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
#209Since it is paid, how is he going with hardware accelerated video decoding on YouTube, Netflix or Amazon Prime? Which I never got to work properly on the laptop/netbook I owned until 2024.
Who knows, it's 2026 now.
Yeah, and still it isn't the Year of Linux Desktop for 90% of the world, unless it is hosted on a VM.
Being generous with Steam hardware survey numbers for GNU/Linux.