It’s been over a year since I switched to Linux full time - no dual booting. I’ve been playing games, making games, music, and videos, doing schoolwork, taking notes, and more, all with Linux software, and with very few issues.

It feels good to finally be free from windows. Anyone else exclusively use Linux? For how long?

  • shiggityshwat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I made the switch to Linux on my gaming desktop 7-ish years ago, but I still had a relatively new macbook at the time and no reason to toss it. I thought I might need it for some proprietary software, such as updating the firmware on some gadget, but I never did. Apple recently decided to stop shipping OS updates for it, so now I’m 100% Linux as of this year. Thanks, Apple!

  • Mike835@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Cheers brother! I’ve been windows free for 2 years straight, I used Linux for 4 years straight in high school before I got a new computer as well :D

  • Ferris@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Congrats! I am also using Linux ‘fulltime’. I’ve been using computers since MSX and finally abandoned Windows as my primary OS in 2005. At work, I always keep a Windows machine around since we have an AD domain and have to keep supporting it, but Linux is great, even more so in the last 5 years when games are running ‘almost’ effortlessly.
    If I can make a suggestion, check how you can contribute to your favorite distro. I’ve been helping out on Debian’s pt-br translation team and it’s very satisfying. I strongly recommend it!

    • Julian@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      I’ve made a couple contributions to a program I use a lot (xournal++). I’ve got lots of personal projects though and setting up a dev environment is a bit of a hassle. I have heard docker can by useful for that though so I might look into that for the future.