I’d been a windows user since the DOS / 3.1 days and converted to Linux maybe 2~ years ago. I’ve found that I’m able to tailor the desktop experience (on desktop / laptop) to exactly what I need. No shitware getting in the way or annoying bundled programs.
My laptop has decent battery life and standby gives me no issues, perfect in my eyes.
I can’t stand windows anymore, and I’m not one to lash out and buy a macbook to just experience another desktop enviornment / user experience.
Admittedly there isnt any professional use just browsing / games with some codium usage.
I occasionally try it out. I do still think Mac is the worst by far, it’s fanbois I will never understand. Linux always has issues when I try it on laptop hardware. Obviously the standard response is “oh that specific hardware doesn’t work with Linux, but good news you can use this different hardware that isnt in your laptop, and also Linux supports so many more hardware types than windows; none of the ones you need, but like, in general, you know?”
It does seem like most people in Linux have had bad experiences with one distro or another, but eventually find one that works for them…then conveniently forget how much of a pain installing several different operating systems is.
You see this all the time in Linux forums (why did you use endeavor, didn’t you know arch is hard? Why did you use void, sure it’s one of the top rated distros on distrowatch but that’s for hardcore Linux users. Why did you use mint, it’s always super outdated. Why did you use suse, I’ve never had anything but issues with it and while yast was cool the whole distro was just weird. Why did you use debian, debian is super out of date. Why did you use Ubuntu, they are spyware and have snaps which suck…).
Last time I tried it for a month-ish and it was meh. I missed mpc-hc, none of the qt clones were quite good enough (and I ended up having to edit and rebuild myself just to get the behavior right even though cloning mpc-hc is literally the whole purpose). IR Camera driver didn’t work so no howdy support. Power management was a mess, it was constantly spinning up the fan to wild levels. The battery didn’t last particularly long. I tried fixing these things but it’s just not worth my time. In contrast with windows I install a crack to permanently bypass the online account nagging, open group policy and fully disable Cortana/copilot, install search everything to replace windows search with something good, pop open unigetui to install all the software I like, and I’m up and running.
I’d been a windows user since the DOS / 3.1 days and converted to Linux maybe 2~ years ago. I’ve found that I’m able to tailor the desktop experience (on desktop / laptop) to exactly what I need. No shitware getting in the way or annoying bundled programs.
My laptop has decent battery life and standby gives me no issues, perfect in my eyes.
I can’t stand windows anymore, and I’m not one to lash out and buy a macbook to just experience another desktop enviornment / user experience.
Admittedly there isnt any professional use just browsing / games with some codium usage.
I occasionally try it out. I do still think Mac is the worst by far, it’s fanbois I will never understand. Linux always has issues when I try it on laptop hardware. Obviously the standard response is “oh that specific hardware doesn’t work with Linux, but good news you can use this different hardware that isnt in your laptop, and also Linux supports so many more hardware types than windows; none of the ones you need, but like, in general, you know?”
It does seem like most people in Linux have had bad experiences with one distro or another, but eventually find one that works for them…then conveniently forget how much of a pain installing several different operating systems is.
You see this all the time in Linux forums (why did you use endeavor, didn’t you know arch is hard? Why did you use void, sure it’s one of the top rated distros on distrowatch but that’s for hardcore Linux users. Why did you use mint, it’s always super outdated. Why did you use suse, I’ve never had anything but issues with it and while yast was cool the whole distro was just weird. Why did you use debian, debian is super out of date. Why did you use Ubuntu, they are spyware and have snaps which suck…).
Last time I tried it for a month-ish and it was meh. I missed mpc-hc, none of the qt clones were quite good enough (and I ended up having to edit and rebuild myself just to get the behavior right even though cloning mpc-hc is literally the whole purpose). IR Camera driver didn’t work so no howdy support. Power management was a mess, it was constantly spinning up the fan to wild levels. The battery didn’t last particularly long. I tried fixing these things but it’s just not worth my time. In contrast with windows I install a crack to permanently bypass the online account nagging, open group policy and fully disable Cortana/copilot, install search everything to replace windows search with something good, pop open unigetui to install all the software I like, and I’m up and running.