12 mo. ago

I Used LINUX For A Year And Never Looked Back [A Rabbithole That Is Worth Falling Into]

Interesting video.

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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?
  
  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'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
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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.
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???
- 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.
- it works well, what DE are you using?
I approve of the BLOOD-C references. That movie had some great moments: https://files.catbox.moe/2xr0xl.webm
Yeah good luck with that
- I'm curious: why this reaction?
  
  They're probably just a troll

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