4 days?
Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush
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I run Windows and still look at them like this
Most because they aren't competent enough to remove the bloat.
As they should.
Hell yeah!
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."
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.
Meanwhile, people who've been using linux for 10+ years...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/13aa5f9a193fec7df0dbf39f654d4d82/tumblr_moatn8ntC31rp0vkjo1_500.gif
And after 30 years, same thing.
And rightfully so.
/thread
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.
I installed Linux on my PC this week, so yeah.
Spill the beans! What distro are you running?
Simple and easy: Mint.
Mint until someone makes a distro Karlach themed.
Be the change you want to see in the world
BTW?
I want that feeling to disappear, by having Linux completely dominate the OS space.
Microsoft Linux is what you want.
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.
Sex is cool and all, but that feeling of something natively supporting Linuxβ¦.
Then it will just be distros shitting on each other...
End Linux Racism!
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.
Best part is that it never gets old day after day after day af...
I get a hit of dopamine just doing mundane tasks on Linux.
i'm still in awe i can literally just play videogames on linux.
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.
the best part is that they didn't even need to innovate, they just had to not ruin it
The siren call of enshittification-driven short-term profits was too strong.
Little did we know that their long LONG term plan was actually "EmbraceIncompetence, ExtendBlueScreens, ExtinguishSelf"
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