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Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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[โ€“] SRo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use both. Linux as a homserver runs a bunch of docker containers and a Nas/personal cloud. Desktop and notebook runs Windows because compatibility and honestly Linux as a desktop still sucks ass. I tried it the first time in the mid 90s and even after all the promises and a quarter of a century later its still shit. Just take the L Linux and be what you are; the best server os.

See, I always find it funny when people say Linux is rubbish for desktop. I main Linux and boot Windows for some games, and Windows continues to find ways to bug me while my Linux desktop feels great.

I guess YMMV

[โ€“] naeap@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using Linux for desktop since years - even my non tech savvy girlfriend uses KDE without issues on her laptop.

What was your issue?

I can't stand to work with Windows. Is gruesome slow and confusingly designed. Configuration is splittered across the system. Some parts in GUI setting tools, some part in registry, some part in specific files.
Error codes are completely useless under Windows. In Linux the error message gives me at least a clue what's happening.

I can't understand how anybody can really work with Windows. Gladly I can do 99% of everything in Linux. Only some industry hardware configuration tools are still stuck on Windows.