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    I had been dual booting bazzite for about a year, up until last weekend when it borked and I wound up just reinstalling. I just deleted everything and went pure linux. Still bazzite, still a little scared of the terminal, but windows is completely gone from my computer.

    [–] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

    The first few days is where you realize "holy shit, there is another world I've been ignoring and it's so much more fun."

    [–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 20 minutes ago

    As they should.

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

    And after 30 years, same thing.

    [–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 points 1 hour ago
    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 32 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] evidences@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

    I went to Linux at the beginning of the year and "had" to install windows onto a drive this past weekend, I've looked at myself this way in the mirror everyday since.

    [–] garretble@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I installed Linux on my PC this week, so yeah.

    [–] vogi@piefed.social 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    Spill the beans! What distro are you running?

    [–] garretble@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    Mint until someone makes a distro Karlach themed.

    [–] argarath@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

    Be the change you want to see in the world

    [–] halfsalesman@piefed.social 22 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    I want that feeling to disappear, by having Linux completely dominate the OS space.

    [–] Limerance@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Microsoft Linux is what you want.

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

    Unfortunately, that's where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.

    I think we're a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.

    [–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

    Then it will just be distros shitting on each other...

    End Linux Racism!

    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

    Sex is cool and all, but that feeling of something natively supporting Linux….

    [–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

    Ive been Linux only for 3 years and I gotta say, I still can't convince myself to move to a stable release. Opensuse tumbleweed is just on another level.

    [–] Limerance@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

    A fish of distinct tastes.

    [–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

    Updates, roll out!

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    [–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

    4 days? Try 10 minutes.

    [–] dil@piefed.zip 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    I swapped back (250gb paritition on my 2nd internal ssd) for iracing and a few other nonsupported games. (and to do some initial hotas setup, moza updates, etc.) It's wild how slow windows is just in regular use, even opening the settings and clicking stuff takes 5 years while it's all snappy and fast on linux.

    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

    I have a win 11 partition on its own drive as well for some stuff that I still need to use while I figure out how to get it running on Linux. I think it’s funny how windows forgets how to tell time and run peripheral devices because I was booted into Linux previously. Like what are you doing?

    [–] Hond@piefed.social 77 points 6 hours ago (17 children)

    Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af...

    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

    I get a hit of dopamine just doing mundane tasks on Linux.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

    i'm still in awe i can literally just play videogames on linux.

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    The progress in the last 2 years has been nothing short of amazing.

    The KDE team, Wine, Proton, TKG/GE/etc have worked miracles for the Linux community.

    Also, shout out to Microsoft for spectacularly face planting in their move to Windows 11/CoPilot/Vibe coded OS development. Nobody deserves more credit for Linux's growth than Microsoft's complete failure to innovate as an operating system developer.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    the best part is that they didn't even need to innovate, they just had to not ruin it

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

    The siren call of enshittification-driven short-term profits was too strong.

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

    Little did we know that their long LONG term plan was actually "EmbraceIncompetence, ExtendBlueScreens, ExtinguishSelf"

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