Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
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- 11 hours
I got tired of Microsoft. I had seen that Linux was now good enough for what I wanted to so, so I decided to jump ship.
It wasn’t a quick decision. I only transitioned from Windows because I finally got around upgrading the PC.
So far? I mean, there was the kerfuffle with the AUR recently. And I still haven’t figured out a few issues here and there. But damn it just works and there is no worrying about updating or not updating or anything like it.
- 14 hours
- FOSS. I’m a software engineer and making the world a better place and helping others is why I love my job and what I study. FOSS is the thing that can make tge world a better place and help others.
I also have a plethora of technical reasons, but I’m sure others will cover them. Just this ideological and philosophical reason is enough for me to be using Linux.
- 18 hours
20+ years ago I grew tired of having to constantly buy upgrades or find cracks for Windows and a friend suggested i check out thi s new OS that was coming out called Ubuntu. I believe it was around 2004 when I installed the first distro and I have never looked back. I find it amusing that all my friends and family think im some super hacker because I use linux lol.
- Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish16 hours
Skype and OneDrive. They just WOULD NOT GO THE FUCK AWAY. My hard drive died, so I already lost everything OS related, and re-installing windows 10 was already infuriating me, and then every reboot, even after disabling them, skype and onedrive just kept popping up at boot. I used windows to download i think 8 different distro ISOs, gathered a gaggle of flash drives and set them all up. Then I tried them all out until I landed on one that did everything I wanted it to and haven’t looked back. I kept that windows drive for about 6 months before I realized I was never using it and the storage space would be better served reformatted to btrfs for the linux system to use.
- 12 hours
I had bought a magazine with a CD-ROM inside… Something called Slackware was written on it.
- 13 hours
Ye it’s very comf c:
There isn’t a silly Big Company that can change stuff without me wanting the change, or inhibit me from making changes I want.
When I set up my Linux how I like it, it stays like that until I decide I want change. And when I do want change, I can make whatever change I want c:
- 15 hours
I tried it because even with most of the bloat disabled Microsoft still kept threatening to downgrade me to windows 11, so having heard most games were working through proton and knowing gimp and Firefox run natively I figured it was worth giving it a try.
I stayed because with KDE it feels like an “unlocked” windows, windows with all the annoying parts stripped out, delimited, or fixed. Installing it was simple, customising it was extensive and easy, games run better, GIMP loads faster, installing programs from the bazaar is trivial, and it doesn’t run into any more bugs and errors than windows did, so it’s just a net upgrade. Weirdly bugs are often easier to diagnose and fix with the help of a search engine too, because the questions and answers tend to be a lot more in depth and informative than you get with windows. - 17 hours
I swap PCs regularly and I hate how long it takes to install windows.
Also windows borked a games drive once and I never forgave it.
Then I learned all the privacy stuff.
