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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!
And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.
Red Hat: Are you challenging me?
The only red hat I know is maga hat and those aren't welcome around these parts...
Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 .... I mean you've got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.
I don't entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It's usually some obscure error code that I can't find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.
Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great *nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.
I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn't have to use them to work on projects with others.
The biggest issue with Windows is that their use of legacy systems holds their entire ecosystem back. They rely on 25-30 year old kernel-level services that were written for a completely different time when no one ever had to bother looking into what the problems were. Now if you take a peek into Event Viewer, it’s an absolute mess.
Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I'm glad I don't have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.
I've actually had a much harder time troubleshooting Windows because everything is kind of hidden behind an abstraction layer, i.e. the GUI. The event manager often throws inscrutable error messages and searches based on the error code often come up with patently wrong solutions. To hell with Windows!
I'm in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.
Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn't quite as performant as native Windows.
Do games from other stores such as Epic games work with Proton?
@iamroot @ablackcatstail heroic games launcher supports epic game store and gog and uses proton
This is an amazing effort to bring games to Linux!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=55xaz9GZWH4
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Three years completely on Linux, because I botched my dual boot and decided to try without the Windows partition and... never had to install it again! Happy user!
Celebrating 20 years this year!
Congrats, I think I'm at about 16 years now myself. I can't quite recall where I was when I first tried SUSE and Red Hat casually. It wasn't until I discovered Arch in 2006/2007 that things really took off.
Edit: I clearly can't math today...guess I'm a bit closer to 20 years myself.
It's almost 20 years since the Fedora Project started, and I started with Red Hat just before that happened.
I'm pretty sure Red Hat was my first go around too, having picked up one of those Linux Bible-type books that included a CD insert.
Redhat was my first Linux experience more than two decades ago now. I had to buy it from a bricks and mortar store since the internet was still in it's infancy (at least in my country). It cost $110 back in the day (about $170 nowadays) and came with a thick arse ye olde phone book style manual 😅 Sadly, there just wasn't the compatibility with Windows software there that I needed for interacting with Windows users so it didn't last long. Picked up Linux again about 10 years ago (distro hopping till I settled on Arch) and haven't looked back. It's amazing to see how far Linux has come just in the last few years, especially with gaming.
I had a similar story, except it was RH 5.x. I've been a faithful ubuntu user, but am seriously thinking of hopping to fedora considering how snappy it is (yet still delivering a fiction free experience).
Here's to many more years in Linux 🍻
Switched from windows to manjaro full time a couple years ago and have not looked back!
But why can't Ctrl C/V just work in Linux???
it works well, what DE are you using?
Linus Mint
I've been using Linux for 15 years and never had any issues with copy/paste. Ctrl+C/V works fine in GUI programs.
Most terminal emulators use Ctrl+Shift+C/V since the Ctrl key is used to send ASCII control characters.
I approve of the BLOOD-C references. That movie had some great moments: https://files.catbox.moe/2xr0xl.webm
