Why did you switch to Linux? I’d like to hear your story.

Btw I switched (from win11 to arch) because I got bored and wanted a challenge. Thx :3

  • DegenerationIP@lemmy.world
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    16 minutes ago

    Simple. Windows caused a lot of Problems I simply could Not solve.

    Besides that Microsoft became Something I do Not want to Support much longer or willing to giveaway my privacy.

    And yeah. Linux Runs better.

  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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    40 minutes ago

    Tired of the constant pop ups in windows 10. The constant upselling of their product.

    An OS shouldn’t get in the way of what you are doing and Windows was always popping up some bullshit.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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    1 hour ago

    SSD died that had windows 10 on it. During the re-installation process I got fed up with onedrive and skype popping up every reboot despite being told not to start with windows multiple times. Attempt to disable, the next round of windows update brings them back. I didn’t even have the absolute basics up and running before I lost all patience for it. Downloaded several distros, setup like 10 different USB sticks to boot them all. Cycled through them for a bit poking around and testing out. Landed on Garuda Linux kinda by chance, but it has been great. It was so refreshing to have a computer feel like it’s mine again.

  • SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com
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    3 hours ago

    I have older hardware that would not be compatible with windows 11. I’ve recently started becoming a privacy nerd and thought this would be the perfect time to switch to Linux. I’ve been running Linux mint for a year and I will never go back, there is no reason to 😁 I wish I had done it sooner

  • owsei@programming.dev
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    3 hours ago

    I wanted to code in C. I saw some tutorials for windows and found it very complex, but I saw one in linux where the person just gcc hello.c. And since then I’ve fallen in love

  • Jess@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    My heat was out and I needed a way to warm my apartment so installed Gentoo on my Dell XPS. /s

    That was around the time Windows 2000 was coming out and I couldn’t afford a copy. I’d been dabbling for a year or two before. That was my first and last dual boot computer. MythTV really sold me on linux.

  • folaht@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    Homework.

    College used linux because I did computer science.
    Topic: concurrency. College then gave us a programming assignment that required adding a code library, which I had never done before or even heard of, and thus did not understand.
    Since this was a library that was platform-specific, they had made one library for linux and one for windows.
    Way too late I got the gist of it but still couldn’t install the library.
    Since the question contained the linux directory structure I was convinced that the windows library was broken and every other college student finished this task in Linux.
    Thus I installed Linux.
    Ten years later I understood and finished the assignment.

  • let_me_sleep@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    I started a masters program and I was assigned an an office computer with MintOS that contained all the software and data for my research project. Unfortunately, my advisor couldn’t remember the password so my first task was breaking into the computer. You’d think being able to externally reset the root password would turn me away from Linux, but the ease and functionality of the terminal shell really made sense to me. Plus now I know how to better secure my Linux systems.

  • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    It’s a long story. But back in the time, when there was a company called Commodore, I used Amiga computers, because I didn’t like Microsoft and MS-DOS. When Commodore went bankrupt and my Amiga started to fade away I was forced to buy a PC. And because I didn’t want to have Windows 95, I bought S.uS.E. Linux and that’s the way I am now. And I’m happy to be Linux user all these years.

  • EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Switch implies I only have one computer … I have many, including several servers.

    Ever since I have memory I’ve been a tinkerer and linux being OS enables you to do amazing things … along with open source software.

    I (dont) use arch BTW … Windows on my gaming PC (because of antichieat amongst other compatibility foes) Mint on my personal tablet and Proxmox on my servers

  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    I really, truly, seriously hate modern implementations of AI and am willing to make concessions in my life to avoid using it. Windows 11 forcing Copilot was my last straw for using Microsoft.

    • mko@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      Opening up Win11 and finding out that the simplest of apps - Notepad - now has Copilot integration just enforced my stance that switching to Linux was the right move.

    • Auth@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      seriously hate modern implementations of AI and am willing to make concessions in my life to avoid using it

      Props for standing on business and actually taking the steps to make a change

  • SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net
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    7 hours ago

    I saw fvwm in a magazine and it had a really cool 3D look to it and I wanted that. I had never seen anything like that. We were very poor and I only had an old computer, a 486, so it was either pirate software (and there was no version of Windows in our language) or use Linux.

    I ended up on Red Hat from a magazine and then later Slackware. I liked Window Maker so I stayed on that for two decades. Learning Linux gave me a constructive hobby, introduced me to free software philosophy, and gave me technology skills. We moved to the United States. When I was 15 or 16, I helped a college math professor install hardware on Linux. When he found out that I was dropping out of a very racist high school, he provided support and I ended up graduating from their college. Those Linux skills came in handy and helped start a career.

    I have only ever used Windows to upgrade firmware on a laptop or to download an ISO so I could replace Windows. Like everyone else, I was enamoured with macOS back in the 2000’s but couldn’t afford one and when I finally could, it couldn’t do sloppy focus and that was a pet peeve of mine so I just returned it and got a used ThinkPad.

    I moved back to Asia. Now I use sway on Debian and get to ride my bicycle to work and my kids grow up better than I did, so life is good.