Linux

I've always been interested in Linux, and for my home server it's been my OS for the last decade, but for the workstation I found myself dual-booting. With the advent of atomic distributions such as Fedora Kinoite, Universal Blue, Fedora CoreOS etc using the concept of OS images through OSTree / bootc, combined with containerization through flatpak and podman is a great step forward stability and reproducibility.

My desktop has been switched to Aurora (Universal Blue) for more than a year and I couldn't be happier.

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.

Yes. I've been dabbling in Linux on and off for 10 years. Finally made the full transition and said fuck my gaming PC, it got swapped to Linux too, if games don't work I just won't play them, I'll get over it. Now my only windows device is my work laptop

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).

Yup. My desktop was the last computer I had running windows 10.

A couple years ago, I installed debian on an old laptop that I'm using as a home server now, and that was my first contact with Linux since 2010 or so. It was an experiment that got from "I'm just trying stuff" to "I use this every day".

Then I got a steam deck, and I saw that gaming on Linux was a thing now. Gaming is one of the things I need my PC for, since I don't have consoles, so that was important for me.

Then I got an old laptop from my sibling and I decided to install Arch to learn a bit more. Another experiment that got out of hand, until that laptop became my daily driver. I spent less and less time in front of my desktop.

This year, with Win10 going out of support, and having no interest in Win11 after having used Linux a bunch, I decided that was it. I did slack for a bit, because I had a lot of files that I needed to review and backup (or delete).
Because of unrelated stuff with my server -I had to empty my external hard drive to reformat it from NTFS to ext4-, I used the opportunity to do the hard work, and when that was over, installing Arch was a breeze.

That was a couple months ago, and I'm still customizing the PC, because life got in the way, and I'm doing things differently to my laptop (using niri instead of hyprland, using btrfs instead of ext4 -which I did wrong and I have to fix to be able to do snapshots-).

But yeah, I'm having fun and I don't miss windows. There's some software that I need sometimes, like the 8bitdo firmware updater and things like that, but it's mostly minor stuff. I did use FL Studio before and I heard it doesn't work great on Linux, but I haven't made music for the past 4 years, and if I want to and can't make it work I can always use Reaper or something :)

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

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.

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

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.

Yes I have 1 convert and 1 on the edge. The convert said Windows is behind and wanted to use Linux. Probably to be cool and stuff. He's learning the ropes of Arch on Cachyos for now

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.

I almost did today. Ran into a setback but will try again soon.

So far the biggest issues I've faced are League of Legends and funky network driver issues. One of those I can work at, the other not so much.

Yeah I did. Didn't do it before purely out of not wanting to do the transitional work. But now that Microsoft's bullshittery made me angry enough to do it, I am loving it. Just Debian with xfxe4. It works, it's interesting and I learn new things about CLI and stuff. Also it doesn't feel like I have to fight my os just to have a little privacy and peace of mind. I love the: "everything is a file" thing. It just makes changing settings much more accessible. Still struggling with some things. I still do not understand the logic of the file organization system, but I think this will get better over time. Thanks to all the Debian developers and Foss developers in general. You are the true heroes.