Switching to Linux

20 thoughts on “Switching to Linux”

• I don't think you quite understood what you were saying when you criticized NT.

  NT is absolutely fine. Heck, even better than Linux in some areas. And it is about as old, if not younger, than Linux.

  The problems don't stem from NT. Far from it, actually. Drivers and kernel-mode processes run better than ever before.

  It's the crap that runs on top of it that's bad and that's Windows itself. The shell, the UX, everything surrounding it is absolute poo and deserves to be scrutinized. But the kernel, out of all components in Windows, is one of, if not the best components of Windows to this very day.

  What doesn't help are the bugs introduced in some well established parts of Windows, namely Win32. I must be the only one who discovered that Microsoft started doing some strange things to it with 11 which breaks some older apps and standardized features. (Example: VK_NULL is now a floating bit in 11, where in 10 and before it wasn't. Or how address family in winsock2 defaults to IPv6 now instead of v4 when it's unspecified. Looking any of this up loops back to my own Github repos on Google…)

  That being said, all of that is userspace and not the kernel. And the Windows userspace absolutely sucks.

• Been using Debian for so long, I forget when I started. No driver issues, no issues AT ALL. It is so stable that it almost feels boring. I do my work and lo! Only needing to update the system once every few months is a great plus. EndeavorOS and other arch based distros that I used to use were great due to the AUR, but not very good when it comes to the constant tweaking needed and the insane number of perpetual updates they push (that is the point of rolling, after all). Last I used something other than Debian was 4 years ago, it was Fedora, loved it. Sad that they are gone now (they are no longer FOSS).

• i feel like the only person who actually likes windows 11
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• When you need elevated privileges and you can’t run a command without sudo: run ‘sudo su’ or ‘su -‘. Maybe I misunderstood but that’s usually how I get around it

• I've been using open suse tumbleweed with gnome for a while and I'm a big fan. a downside is it's less used than ubuntu/debian and doesn't have the aur like arch distros I used to use, plus non-free repos need to be added manually. But It's much more stable than arch distros but still gives me the rolling distro experience

• Linux = second job, no thanks, i don't want any hassle, so i'm sticking with windows + i want full support for commercial programs & games and want to utilize my components at 100%.
  Btw yes, i know linux very well, but i use it only on servers.

• This video can be summed up as “I switched to Linux and it took days of work to get it to simply look useable then nothing worked” which is a perfect representation of the Linux experience.

• I am impressed! For a beginning Linux user you're doing some quite advanced stuff! Especially the gpu pass-through stuff.

  I'd like to comment about using the commandline: yes, you're probably gonna need the terminal now and then, but once you get used to it (and learn how to quickly google and resolve the occasional error) it beats gui by a mile. Not wanting to use a terminal is like not wanting to learn French when moving to France. Sure, you can get by, sort off, but it's not gonna be nearly as rewarding and easy as learning to communicate in the local language. You really need to learn only a few basic commands (ls, cd, mv, cp, updating and installing with the package manager, mount, grep) and you're good to go for most tasks. One thing I very much recommend is to install a better shell like zsh or fish to have realtime syntax checking and, most importantly, autocomplete based on history. I rarely type more than 3 letters and a right arrow in my terminal nowadays. It's super convenient! I barely bother to install gui apps on my Arch installs (I use tiling wm's instead of a desktop environment).

  Keep up the good work!

• I started running out of space on my Windows machine, i have to buy additional ssd anyways and because of that i think I'll try to dual boot Linux and Windows with Windows being my gaming/chill machine and Linux for programming/development etc. There's no alternative to Visual Studio on Linux though that I know of. Any tips?

• Once Windows 10 Support ended. I will definitely switch to Linux

• Was nice to hear Fez music in the wild.

• For people who are hardware expert and understand the various components of a computer switching to any OS is fine. They will find suitable replacements and workarounds and will eventually get their system working. The beginners who are running it on just a laptop will have a hard time setting it up other than following a basic linux install tutorial and running basic features.

• If Linux and Creative labs could work together to support 5.1 audio better/easier I would have totally switched a long time ago.

• Just my 2 cents, it looks like Nobara Linux is best at handling NVidia drivers installation and it's KDE-based which is my fav DE, so I definitely recommend to install one if you have an Nvidia (and most distros have smth else than KDE as their main DE).

  I used to use Arch but now I prefer stability. Nobara is Fedora based but a bit behind their release cycle (i'd say half a release cycle behind, LOL), so that's fine for me, alongside their extensive and painless driver support by the creator of Proton-GE, Glorious Eggroll. So if you want a gaming system it's probably the one to go.

• I will laugh so hard when people start jumping ship to linux and linux becomes the new standard. I'm run ubunto here and there, runs off a usb stick! Windows can only wish it could run off a stick.

• it is very interesting how Edge opens faster than anything else on my computer too.

• You made good choice with debian. You can get anything for debian, which way you wanna install your apps is up to you.

• as an idiot, i’ve tried downloading linux distros and also some lightweight versions of windows. but, from my experience, every time i do it, i get a massive headache and i waste several hours just to switch back to windows, from now on, i’m sticking to windows (except i might check out debian in the future). i just enjoy using a os that i’m used to and one where i don’t need to spend hours just to do something like download software

• i used to hate the terminal. now im on arch hyprland and all i use is TUI apps lmao nothing like watching code compile while you fall asleep

• Good choice picking Debian! Definitely an S tier distro for new users. I've always felt the most comfortable with Debian-based systems and I eventually settled on Debian itself. Felt right at home ever since.

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