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One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments In other words, you've found a new hobby along with your new operating system. And that
by jqpabc123 10mo ago
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments
In other words, you've found a new hobby along with your new operating system.
And that's OK --- but not everyone is looking for a hobby.
- maxwellsdeamons 10mo agoThis comment summarises it well. Linux requires you to think about your OS. Which can be fun, but for most people it’s not.
- jqpabc123 10mo agoTechnology advances by increasing the number of things people can achieve without thinking about them.
- baal80spam 10mo agoFor me it came with age. I'm in my mid-forties now and although I loved to tinker with stuff, now I want things to "just work". I certainly see the allure of Apple ecosystem. (anecdata but my brother is the same).
- DennisP 10mo agoI'm not convinced that's the case. A few years ago I had a laptop with pre-installed Ubuntu and it worked without any fiddling. You certainly can turn Linux into a hobby and try all sorts of variations, which isn't really an option with Windows or Mac. But you don't have to do that.
- queenkjuul 10mo agoBuying it preinstalled is the trick. Installing Linux on a laptop without official vendor support can be unpleasant.
- DennisP 9mo agoYes. Most people buy OS X and Windows preinstalled, too.
- taeric 10mo agoLinux doesn't really require you to think about it, necessarily. More that odds are high if you have tinkered with something recently, you are more likely to do so again. Think of it as a reverse lindy number. (And this can be frustrating for folks with automated marketing that feel that they are too dumb. They are, but the dumb approach works rather well.) To that end, the last time I tinkered with what linux distro I'm using is over a decade ago.
- juujian 10mo agoI have definitely spent less time on maintaining my Linux setup than I spent on trying to tame Windows to my wishes. Windows imposes a steep toll on your time as well. Just looking at the time spent to set up Linux is not sufficient. Unlike Windows, once you set up your Linux system it generally runs well a long, long time.
- mindcrash 10mo agoI've seen a lot of people switch from Windows to Bazzite and they are super happy with it. The only thing you'll have to decide is if you want a desktop which looks more similar to MacOS (GNOME) or Windows (KDE). For now they don't even care about even more advantages or disadvantages, like the fact that KDE is customizable to the point things can get a little crazy. Graphical desktop and Steam support (with a little pinch of Lutris added on top), and that's good enough.
- lukaslalinsky 10mo agoYou get a computer that's compatibles with Linux, you install Ubuntu LTS, and you just keep using it. After a couple of years, you reinstall it. If you are a power user able to prepare the boot USB and boot from it, you do it yourself, otherwise you have to pay someone to do it for it for you or buy a computer with Ubuntu preinstalled. I've been using Ubuntu for more than 20 years, Debian before that, and Linux is definitely not my hobby.
- t0bia_s 10mo agoI like this hobby, but it is so irritating that I cannot apply this hobby to workstation because of industry standards. Adobe and linux are no options for progressional work.