Linux

I switched from windows 10 to Kubuntu a few months ago, and I've loved the freedom so far! Gaming has mostly been a non-issue, except for the 1 or 2 that won't work due to anticheat nonsense. I have a debloated windows instance that I keep on a separate drive, and I've booted that POS maybe 2 times so far.

I got curious and tried Linux Mint and OpenSUSE, but ended back with Kubuntu because I prefer KDE Plasma and im most familiar with Ubuntu.

Be careful though, once you fall into the rabbit hole you'll start doing things like run your own music server (like navidrome), and hosting your own photo storage server (I've tried both Immich and Photoprism).

Grew up om mac os, switched to windows about 10 years ago. Switched to Linux this summer.

The first distro that stuck was Manjaro... But the instability became too much of a pita and a risk. Found Garuda Moca amd I'm very happy with the experience. Mostly used for gaming.

I'm never going back to the windows side of my dual boot & should probably reclaim the space. Damn malware hyjacks my bios and trys to start & grab updates every once & a while.

Spouse is working on a private cloud server & once its up I will walk backwards out of the corop data theif hell I inhabit now with both birds blazing.

I did about 2 years ago. Dislike Microsoft decision to go against the user choice and all the bad updates and trying to make things worse. I went to Fedora after being on kubuntu for a while. I just needed something with kde 6 so wayland could work good.

So far I have not really found a good way to convice family. Instead they stay on familiar Windows 10. Will see if I have better luck after W10 ESU runs out.

I had a PC I used for games and stuff that had Windows, switched it to Linux. Don't want Windows 11 and it didn't support my computer anyway.

Me. But not just me. When my children grow older, they too will now have a Linux OS on their computers not Microsoft. Microsoft has lost more than just me!

A few friends installes it and work gold with it. I also am tasked with installing Linux for my mother where I will use Linux Mint.

I'm in process.

I want to be on Linux but honestly my PC is probably going to stay win10 forever.

When I eventually buy a new one it will be on fedora.

My main desktop / gaming PC just runs so many services and hosts media, loads of ntfs drives. I just cannot be assed right now.

Setting up new services in docker to make the config more portable in the future... Honestly probably wont take that long but you know how it is

My wife is the last one in the family to switch to Linux. I started with Linux on PCs (I only used Windows 95 back then in a dual-boot config for gaming only, but did work on Linux back then already), my daughter and my so use Linux for University, and now my wife is the last one to convert over the Win11 fuckup.

Yup. Switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I bought a new NVMe to install Linux on, and a USB enclosure to stick the Windows NVMe in, so I can run Autodesk Fusion and VCarve occasionally. (It boots fine off of USB.)

I write code and browse the web, mostly. Linux is fine for that. I wish more commercial software supported Linux.

I haven't run a single game on it, or even installed Steam, because I have a Steam deck. But I guess you could say I game Linux, too.

My computer was crashing constantly, never figured out what it was but I switched over to Linux Mint to see if it was something to do with the software and hardware having an issue since I couldn't find a hardware only issue.

I liked the environment but was still having crashes. So I upgraded MoBo, GPU, CPU, RAM, PSU, HDD and installed Mint again. It didn't work out because Mint didn't have driver support for my newer GPU so I changed over to Nobara and it is very good.

I installed Fedora last Friday and I have no regrets. Win11 was never an option for me, my laptop is "too old" and I have no desire to touch that horror in any

~10 years ago I had a Win7/Ubuntu dual boot laptop, but I dropped Ubuntu when I upgraded to SSD and needed all the space I could get. Ubuntu was OK, but there was something with the UI that just didn't click with me. I meant to try other distros but never found the time, so I just stuck with Win10 until now.

I have several legacy software that I need, so I went with dual boot again. If I can get them to run smoothly on Fedora, I'll do a complete clean install.

The only challenge in installing Fedora was Windows' crappy partition manager, which would not let me minimize C: for more than 54MB. I did every trick I knew and learned a few new ones, nothing helped. Then I just flashed Gparted to a USB stick and it worked instantly.

After that everything went smoothly, with the exception that Fedora didn't recognize my Bluetooth device at all. I'll dig into that single issue tomorrow, I'm fairly certain that a fix can be found easily.

Just helped someone yesterday, though they had Windows 11 already. They ended up with Pop!_OS, probably inspired by me having Pop!_OS (I did not make decisions here, only helped). Now we need to work out why Pop!_OS acting like the laptop can't do Wi-Fi

Moved my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Mint.

Biggest problem was all his 'documents', which were office365 web links rather than 'actual documents'. Linux presents them as the urls that they really are. They open just fine, though, and can be exported as real local docs for libreoffice etc.

Security and privacy were the main selling points for him. He'd done some reading and thought that Mint was among the best choices for a newstart that just want everything to work; no interests in playing games or anything. I agreed that was the most solid choice. I use Arch btw myself, but wouldn't recommend that for beginners.

Yup, installed Linux Mint for my 60+yo mother. She hardly uses her laptop and does not need anything advanced. We set it up, installation went very smooth (obviously), set up her browser so she can use it like she's used to, and we figured out how to use the printer. Thankfully it was no hassle at all, it just connected via USB and interacted very well with the printing and scanning software that came with Mint. She was already using firefox and libreoffice, so that was no hassle either. So far so good!

I started baby steps when Steam stopped supporting Windows7. I built my main gaming PC to dual boot W10 & Ubuntu maybe 3 years ago? And that just worked so-so honestly. Felt like everytime I went to play co-op games w my friends, whatever game we picked that weekend didn't work correctly in Linux. But because I had Win10 right there, I also never forced myself to learn anything either. Biggest thing I could find was the problems seemed to be related to the Nvidia drivers, but never could quite figure out how to update them.

Recently I doubled down with a new PC, and this time it's Ubuntu only. Made an effort to find native Linux apps where possible, learned a few terminal commands, forced myself to also learn Bottles (play Windows games), and bought a Radeon video card instead of Nvidia. Learning curve for what I wanted wasn't nearly as high as I feared. If anything, I think it's pushing me to consider distro shopping, as I'm starting to understand why folks don't like snaps. Looks like Mint will be my next stop.

Biggest challenge so far is there's a few apps I use that just don't have a great Linux equivalent. AutoHotKey is the biggest one, but I see there's some new options here I didn't try yet. https://lemmy.zip/post/47337622 I have not dicked around with my 3D printer software yet, but I'm sure that will be a hurdle.

Recently started testing Linux:

-laptop: Switched an old X1 Carbon to Linux, but had a lot of problem with the WiFi card (Intel Wireless 7265). It's supposed to be Linux compatible, but it simply doesn't work. After a few days of distro hoping I settled for Kubuntu + a WiFi USB adapter(details here if you're furious: https://sh.itjust.works/post/47717768)

I'm still hoping a future update will make the WiFi card work and that I'll be able to remove the USB WiFi adapter. And I'm wondering if 8GB of RAM is enough for KDE (Mozilla regulatory freeze).

-For my gaming rig, I went dual boot with Bazzite and I'll be upgrading W10 to 11 for the software not Linux compatible.

My main problem (and disappointment) is that my Logitech G915 keyboard and JBL quantum headset cannot use their specific software on Bazzite/Linux. The basic stuff works, but all the keyboard (macro keys,...) And headset (spatial sound control, two sources live mixing,...) Handy advanced features doesn't.

I have some programs that require Windows (still running 10 with ESU) but my Mint partition is now my daily driver.

Started like three mints ago b/c fed up with windows. Got 2nd SSD and set up dual boot with Bazzite. Initially this was just to fuck around but i switched to Bazzite as main distro within two days. It just works. Won me over when Darksouls was immediately displaying the Playstation glyphs when I plugged in the Dualshock 4.

Even modding was relatively easy. Things are well documented now and; and I shame to admit, ChatGPT is surprisingly not the shittiest at helping me with my issues (specific example setting up Darksouls Remastered Gadget to run with the Seamless Coop mod which required some custom code shenanigans... For which the vibe code was serviceable!)

Haven't booted my windows partition for a month ish now. Probably won't for a long time.

I just changed over my work laptop to Ubuntu with the gracious help of a tech-savvy friend. It works like a charm although I haven’t tried to print anything yet. Proton VPN needed installing using the terminal, but it was all ‘cut and paste’ from the Proton website. Tuxedo mini-PC is in the mail and hoping to convert a 2013 MacBook Pro to Mint in the future. So, it is going well.