I get the feeling that Lemmy has a relatively higher concentration of Linux users. I’m preparing to move over to Linux when I build my new computer. I already put Linux Mint Cinnamon edition on one of my old laptops and I like it quite a bit. I figure that since I’ve been wanting to switch over for years, I should just do it. The games were the thing holding me back, and Proton seems to have taken care of that(I don’t really play multiplayer games that require anticheat… I’m a singleplayer kind of girl).

For me, anyway, I want to switch because Windows has been creeping me out with its telemetry. Windows 11 looks lousy, and I’d have to jump through some hoops to get my old hardware on 11, anyway.

  • kajko ( kajko@beehaw.org ) English
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    3 years ago

    Yes I have used Linux exclusively for about 7 years. I briefly got a work computer with Windows 11 and I didn’t like it, had to use weird workarounds to install git and a terminal I liked, so I ended up switching to a linux distro even at work.

    I played pretty much everything I wanted in my desktop computer, since I also don’t play any multiplayer games. But these days I have a Steam Deck (which also runs a Linux-kind of distro) and I don’t play on my desktop anymore. Even some multiplayer games I was able to run with no problem like Among Us and even WoW when the wow classic craze arrived for a bit.

    I started dual booting about a decade ago, it helped to ease myself into it, if something was frustrating, I’d temporarily switch to my familiar environment before trying again instead of cancelling the whole thing. After a while, I noticed I wasn’t booting Windows at all, and I removed it.

    But I had several false starts in 2006, I tried a couple of distros and found them too difficult and unfamiliar, and I’d abandon it. When I finally did go into it, I had at least one person that I could go to if I really ran into trouble, and who was able to recommend interesting and useful tools, so that helped too. I do think things have become much more user-friendly these days for many distros, and there are more mainstream communities with people that can help.