I’m asking what big motivational factors contributed to you into going Linux full-time. I don’t count minor inconveniences like ‘oh, stutter lag in a game on windows’ because that really could be anything in any system. I’m talking, something Windows or Microsoft has done that was so big, that made you go “fuck this, I will go Linux” and so you did.

For me, I have a mountain of reasons by this point to go to Linux. It’s just piling. Recently, Windows freaked out because I changed audio devices from my USB headset from the on-board sound. It freaked out so bad, it forced me to restart because I wasn’t getting sound in my headset. I did the switch because I was streaming a movie with a friend over Discord through Screen Share and I had to switch to on-board audio for that to work.

I switched back and Windows threw a fit over it. It also throws a fit when I try right-clicking in the Windows Explorer panel on the left where all the devices and folders are listed for reasons I don’t even know to this day but it’s been a thing for a while now.

Anytime Windows throws a toddler-tantrum fit over the tiniest things, it just makes me think of going to Linux sometimes. But it’s not enough.

Windows is just thankful that currently, the only thing truly holding me back from converting is compatibility. I’m not talking with games, I’m not talking with some programs that are already supported between Windows and Linux. I’m just concerned about running everything I run on Windows and for it to run fully on a Linux distro, preferably Ubuntu.

Also I’d like to ask - what WILL it take for you to go to Linux full-time?

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
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    29 days ago

    i work in IT, so linux at work was an immediate hit for me.
    It sounds weird, but doing it stuff on linux just feels kinda natural.

    because of work i tried to use it at home (asside from tinkering) but it didn’t work out nearly as well for a long time.
    the lack of game support meant i was mostly on windows.

    but thanks to minecraft and valves linux version of dota and csgo, it evened out.
    and now thanks to proton im almost 99% on linux.

    i like linux for its customizability,
    its centralized & unintrusive updates,
    its advanced features (mdadm, btrfs, powerfull scripting), and because of the controll i have over my system.

    i dislike windows because of the design since win8,
    the lack of controll( bloatware just appears on my start menu, onedrive, cortana, recall),
    intrusive updates (installing updates on shutdown and reboot and “all your files are encrypted exactly where you left them”),
    constantly pestering me about getting the latest release,
    reseting my configurations on updates,
    and the ever changing labyrinth of menus when i need to fix / change something