I’ve been running 99% Linux for ten ish years or so. I finally got rid of the last windows vm a few months ago. The one hold out piece of software now runs in wine properly and I got to delete that vm.
As a FreeBSD desktop user from the mid 90s, I held out for a LONG time before installing my first linux OS in my home. I still don’t really feel comfortable on any of my linux boxes, but I guess it’s been well more than ten years now.
Dual booting with Ubutu a couple tiimes over the last decade, then tried dual booting with Mint 3 years ago on W10, thenW11 is annouced, seems the enshitifaction would be worse but, didn’t use Mint, same reasn I’d not used Ubuntu, fell back on the familiar.
Purchased a new NVME 2 years ago, instilled Mint on it and took the dual boot NVME physically out, 3 months later formated it and use it for Timeshift :) Then.went to LMDE.
Eventually got sick of the nagging on my infrequently used Surface Pro 7 about going to W11 and did the same thing there, wiped it and installed LMDE, a few hiccups but used the Surface Pro drivers from Github and got it sorted eventually, touch works etc
The main reason i stayed was Adobe Lighroom but that was enshitifying as well. I still haven’t wrapped my head around Darktable properly but less time spent on photography these days as well
I’ve been using Linux since 1995, but had an on-again-off-again relationship with it for a while, because I wanted to play games. So it was usually dual boot. But in 2007 I bought a PS3 and have been gaming on PlayStation exclusively since then, which allowed me to go fulltime Linux. I also worked a lot with OpenBSD and still miss pf, which is such a lovely firewall. iptables is horrible shit compared to it (I am aware of nftables, but it’s too new to replace the long years of iptables).
In 2004 grandpa gave me an old laptop from 1995 to play around with. I wanted it to be faster so I tried using g.ho.st. That was a terrible experience, too slow of internet, cloud computing was never gonna work. After that I tried suse. They had this fancy iso builder at the time that let me pick all the packages I want from the repo and have them present on my ISO.
That’s started my journey, outside of school I’ve had Linux exclusively since.
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Some time after I went OpenBSD and then FreeBSD nerd.
When I saw Windows 11.
I’ve been dual booting Win10 and Linux, with Win10 as default because gaming.
Upgraded to Win11, that made me immediately switch the default boot to Linux, and repurpose D: as /mnt/data.
Haven’t booted into Windows since.
I do have Windows as a Docker image for using my printer, though.
Out of curiosity what printer do you have? I didn’t know there were compatibility issues with some printers
It’s a Canon PIXMA ts3350.
They have some script that should install drivers, but I never got it to actually find the printer.
Oh that’s so frustrating
There’s definitely compatibility issues with my printer… on Windows. I always have to send my documents to my linux laptop to print.
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Uni, around 2019! Had a professor on the web team who encouraged all students to do the entire uni education on Linux.
All tools and course material was tailored to work on Linux. Hand-ins, exams and anything related either functioned or had custom solutions built by the teachers, student and professors on the web programme.
Everything was open source and if we found any bugs we could just open issues on GitHub. Weekly hand-ins were done on the student server on your own instance of the web server.
In almost every aspect i think that programme was so well tailored for learning real web dev work.
When I got frustrated with Windows around 2019 and I had spare time I decided that enough is enough and spent a couple of days to take the time to learn Arch Linux and all of its quirks.
Around 2020 I started tinkering with NixOS as well which culminated as my NixOS configuration.
Although at this point I’m going back to Arch Linux as I actually know how to fix and make modifications faster and better than I could on NixOS.
I got my start with linux as a student looking to do astronomy. I didn’t have any issues with windows that got me to switch; just liked it more for its own sake. I think I went full nerd when I realized how to compile my own stuff and set environment variables. I also really liked having a package manager.
It’s 1995!
Now that I’m older stress weighs on my shoulders
Heavy as boulders but I told ya
I started using linux in 2011, but went full linux nerd in 2014/2015, while still in high school. Changed distros, changed OSs, changed everything, but full time it was linux all along, from ubuntu, to elementary os, to arch, to hackintosh, to solus, to endeavouros, to a lot of distros, but now i’m stable at cachyos (the optimized packages are amazing, ngl).
Love CachyOS. It works brilliantly on devices you wouldn’t think could handle it.
When I “solved” teering on nvidia by installing i3 and started using only terminal, because any gui program was still freezing.
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By the way, (unofficial) manjaro i3/sway were really good, inspite of populistic opinion about manjaro, especially in comparison with fedora i3 or endeavouros i3 (but still just arch/void is better, when you get used to terminal, than arch-based distros).
