this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
64 points (94.4% liked)
Asklemmy
48086 readers
654 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The downside is, you will be spending a lot of time customizing your Linux and fixing problems. This can be very rewarding and a great learning experience but it also takes time and effort. If you want to spend less time with your computer and more time talking to people offline or enjoying nature, installing Linux can be a bad idea.
I spend 10 hours on my laptop screen and usually hangout with my old friends for 2-3 hours. All because I just passed out of high school and my uni will start in sep
So time isn't an issue at all. However finding the exact articles or videos for the exact problem would be hard
When I was studying computer science I had a dual-boot setup on my laptop. I was never happy with a VM but it's not a lot of work to set up so you could try that first! With dual-boot I could still use Windows if I absolutely needed it for a course. I can recommend the Arch Linux wiki, it has many articles and tutorials. It's only really useful if you are using Arch Linux or a distro based on Arch, e.g. EndeavourOS
Such a weird take dude. Someone's ability to enjoy nature is not at all tied to their operating system choice. And many people actually gain friends and achieve more social interaction as a result of starting a new hobby or special interest, and using a Linux-based operating system can be the same.
I think what you are trying to say is that switching to a new operating system comes with a learning curve, and depending on how much free time you have, you may end up spending the time leaning the OS, when you'd rather be doing something else.
The same can be said for anything. Learning Tae Kwon Do has a learning curve. When I'm spending time on that, it eats into the time I would rather be customising my OS.