what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
mranderson17, Dark mode back in the day (XP/Vista era). I wanted to theme everything and have cool UI/visual features in a non-shady
download-this-third-party-totally-safe-theme-engine-wink-wink
way.
PainInTheAES, Sounds like this guy compiz cubes
signofzeta, I tried Linux when I was younger. I decided to try Gentoo on underpowered hardware with zero Linux experience. I credit that uphill battle for teaching me Linux! I used that until I got into dependency hell and switched back to Windows for a while. I needed PowerShell and stuff for my old job, before it went cross-platform. It was fine.
A few years later, I was dual-booting again. Then, Windows 10 began blue-screening randomly. I couldn’t figure out why. Reinstalling didn’t work. So I started using Linux full-time and I’ve never looked back.
Even when I found out that one of my memory sticks had been half-inserted for months, and that’s probably what made Windows crash all the time. How did Linux handle it? Obviously, because it’s better.
OddFed, I installed Linux and the feeling of freedom and privacy hit me so hard that I immediately began committing crimes, knowing that the FBI could never track me. Piracy, sexual assault, trademark infringement, petty larceny, tax fraud, you name it. I also own several fully automatic firearms even though I live in the state of California, but it doesn’t matter. Ever since I removed Windows 10 from my computer and replaced it with Arch Linux, and began using a PinePhone as my daily driver phone, police can’t even stop me in traffic. Windows may have a lot of video games, but the benefits of Linux should not be understated.
astraeus, It gets deleted on another post so you have to paste it elsewhere in the same community
OddFed, Big if true
ultra, New copypasta just dropped
Edit: also, username checks out
waspentalive, Windows Telemetry at first. Then Windows browbeating various products - “Edge please download Firefox” - Edge: “Why, I am better than Firefox” Me:“Do as I say” Edge: “But -blah blah nah” and so on. I know there are ways around it, but if someone can force an update against my will on my machine, it is not my machine. This leads to questions of what else can they do without my permission. Linux is my machine. I control when and how and what. Also customization.
s38b35M5, Having to disable protected services to stop updates from rebooting in the middle of a nine hour encode was it for me. Checking on my encode at what should have been 90% and find my PC at the login screen was it for me. Handbrake works better for me in Linux, too.
indigojasper, i came because of microsoft paranoia, then stayed for the customization
Bene7rddso, Usually it’s the other way around
Cotillion189, Windows.
kent_eh, In my case, specifically Windows 95.
FirstWizardZorander, 98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is
lnxtx, (edited ) Yeah. On the same hardware, Linux (Knoppix back then) worked much better than Windows (the 98/XP era).
Opafi, Same. More specifically windows 8.
andrew, In my case, specifically tiling windows. I use i3, btw.
CrabAndBroom, Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol
PerogiBoi, I used a bootable Ubuntu usb to save the contents of my windows hard drive after it failed. I successfully brought the files onto an external drive and installed Linux after. It was so fun. It still is.
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