Tried Linux to play games on after steam deck started getting good. Though my it was fine.

Then I got a new laptop. Tried to install windows 11. Required internet to setup. I installed Linux and haven’t looked back.

I switched to Linux, because my very first confrontation to buy a Windows license myself weirded me out. It was quite casual. My exposure to Linux came from a few software development related videos. The workflows I saw looked much more efficient and fulfilling. To be honest, with a dying laptop running on Windows 8.1 I had an extra terrible experience anyway. So when I built my PC and I realized that legally purchasing a Windows license looked like browsing the black market, I decided to save my money and just try Ubuntu. I definitely had the luxury of being able to simply dive in.

I started using Linux more after using it in a couple of my tech classes. Fast forward a year later, I had purchased a T480 and installed Debian since I was interested. Its been a benefit for me learning Bash and SteamOS on my Steam Deck as I love to tinker with things and am a comp sci major.

w10 support ending and w11 being spyware thats also an operating system

I had been using linux in some capacity (dual-boot, alternate computer, homelab, etc.) for close to twenty years, but there was always some functionality (mostly gaming) that held me back from switching fully. Then something like two or three years ago Proton/Wine finally got to where basically everything I wanted to run was able to run with no more effort on my part than doing the same thing under Windows. At that time I had been dual-booting Windows and Fedora for a little over a year and Windows/Manjaro for about a year prior to that and hadn’t had to boot into windows for almost six months. So, I formatted the Windows drive and haven’t looked back.

when there was a reliable systenwide eq

it’s my dream feature

Had a really old machine in high school that could no longer run Windows 10 smoothly.

because windows removed focus stealing prevention

MSI recently pushed a firmware update on my motherboard that somehow reset the device ID, so windows decided I wasn’t running genuine windows anymore.

I lived with the watermark for a few months, then kept running out of space on my old 256gb windows drive (all I could afford at the time) and I decided that instead of just migrating to larger drive and buying another copy of windows, I’d take the leap and just do it. It was unexpectedly painless.

My one concern was gaming, specifically helldivers, which has been pretty much the only thing I can play with my friends. Turns out, it just… runs… everything else… just… runs…

The last time I tried linux was like 10 years ago, and its definitely come a long way, at least with some of the more consumer level distros.

I uh … actually don’t know. I guess I has enough of windows 10 three years ago and simply installed Linux.

Wait no, it was my graphics card that had issues with Windows during Valorant gaming with my friends, then other games where the OS simply crashed and rebooted for no apparent reason.

It sucked a bit at first as I couldn’t play with my homies, but there are other hero shooters that do work (like Rogue Company) and we played that then.

So hardware was the pebble.

Can’t really pin-point when, just started making sense since the 2000s…
Conversely M$ becomes shittier everyday.

I first discovered Linux in middle/highschool back when Ubuntu was the hot shit and they had that awesome Gnome 2 desktop. I loved the vibes, but didn’t stick with it because I didn’t know what to do. Then just over the years I’d occasionally install it for a few days and give it a shot, learning more and more, even installing Arch Linux once (back when it was actually a challenge).

Switching to Linux was inevitable for me, I think. As the years rolled on, Windows got worse and worse while my understanding/confidence with Linux got better and better. I don’t remember what the final thing was that convinced me to finally go 100% Linux on all my devices, but I did around ~2017 or 2018 with zero regrets.

So I think that if there’s a path for people to learn Linux at a comfortable pace, without the trauma of going all in, they’ll also find it impossible to resist. The dynamic of Windows becoming worse while Linux becomes better is still holding strong.

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The windows machine was keeping secrets and refusing to do what I tell it

I want to run some code, let’s have a discussion about admin privileges and finding the correct shell app and oh shit “something went wrong”

Linux just doesn’t say no, if I do something wrong it tells me exactly why it was wrong. So I guess visibility is why I jumped

I’ve been purging all big tech from my life as much as possible. Meta was easy because they don’t really offer anything. It took quite a while to eliminate google. Once that was done, it was Microsoft’s turn.

I’ve also been absolutely fed up with Windows over the years. Each release somehow gets worse and more clunky and in my way of doing what I’m trying to do. So on top of being untrustworthy, using my data and generally being capitalist assholes, Microsoft’s product itself is shit.

I installed Mint and seen what innovation actually looks like. I also realized most of the things I love about android are actually features of linux under the hood. So I intend to jump on the linux phone bandwagon as well.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years. That’s been the hardest part. GIMP is impressive but for as long as it’s been around it’s still a little rough around the edges here and there. I’m learning to deal with it though.