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I can't imagine running another OS other than Linux on my personal machine. You get a sense of control and privacy you won't get from the main other OSes.
by zvmaz 3y ago
I can't imagine running another OS other than Linux on my personal machine. You get a sense of control and privacy you won't get from the main other OSes.
- simonblack 3y agoLinux 23 years and counting. UNIX for the 10 years before that. I looked at Windows around 1993. Couldn't believe how primitive it was for a GUI.
- SinePost 3y agoI can. Any of the free BSDs (of which FreeBSD is one of them).
- nerdix 3y agoI find using anything other than a tiling window manager to be extremely painful. I keep a Windows 11 partition on my primary for games. Otherwise I would be full-time Linux on my personal machines.
- aloisdg 3y agoI used to dual boot too but I started playing more and more on Linux and I didn't touch my Windows for two years.
- blooalien 3y ago> "I used to dual boot too but I started playing more and more on Linux and I didn't touch my Windows for two years." Pretty much exactly how I ended up on Linux full-time myself. Eventually the only thing left on my Windows partition was EverQuest, and then suddenly one day WINE started supporting that pretty much flawlessly and that was the end of my dual-boot. Then along comes Humble Bundle and GOG and Steam all with a wide variety of Linux-native games, and later on well-emulated Windows games too, and I just never felt the need (or even want) to dual-boot ever again.
- hackeraccount 3y agoI step onto the Windows GUI occasionally for work and I always walk away missing Sway. There's those snap windows but despite that the whole UI just seems so busy and crowded. This could just be because at some point everything I did was either in a terminal or browser (when did that happen?) and Windows always seems to be sitting around waiting for you to open some windowed app.