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After three months on Linux, I don't miss Windows at all

48 points by Brajeshwar

by rickcarlino

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The death of the desktop app is troublesome, but one place it has been a win for users is daily driving Linux. The days of being forced to use windows because you need MS Word ended a long time ago for most people. The desktop is irrelevant and nearly everything an office worker does is in Chrome/Firefox. There are exceptions, sure, but they are fewer than ever.

by embeng4096

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I keep saying this under a bunch of Linux-adjacent posts, but I switched to EndeavourOS late last year and have been enjoying it ever since.
I do 99% of my computing needs on it, with the last 1% being a second Windows SSD I only boot into to play games that require heavy anticheat (Apex Legends, Battlefield 6, Rainbow Six Siege).
Otherwise, I've been doing everything else in Linux, including all the rest of my gaming (Baldur's Gate 3, Helldivers 2, No Rest For The Wicked, Slay The Spire 2, Stardew Valley, pretty much anything that's not AAA FPS multiplayer that I've wanted to play so far, even modding games like Lethal Company using r2modman).
It's been great - I told my coworker I only realized how annoying the Windows auto-update and forced reboots were after I got used to my Linux PC always being in the state I left it.

by rythmshifter

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I’ve had the same experience using CachyOS. This is the way computing should be, not whatever windows had us doing all this time.

by starky

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I made the switch about 1.5 years ago and haven't looked back. The only software I use frequently that doesn't have a good enough equivialent available on Linux is photo editing and CAD. Even for CAD, if it is simple enough, I'll do it in Onshape rather than booting up my Windows VM.

by cf100clunk

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