Mike StoneApr 10, 2022

An interesting opinion piece from someone that's been exclusive on Linux for almost 15 years, and now has to use Windows.

https://duncanlock.net/blog/2022/04/06/using-windows-after-15-years-on-linux/

Using Windows after 15 years on Linux

I've been using Linux exclusively for ~15 yrs. This is my first time using Windows after a 15-year break. This is how it's been going.

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Show threadfedops 💙💛

@mike nice article, and I feel pretty much the same way.

Bottom line is that windows and linux use completely different paradigms. If you're happy with one you'll hate the other. If you have decades of (positive) experience with one, it will be quite hard to adapt to the other.

Apr 10, 2022 at 9:10amWeb
Show threadhazelnot Apr 10, 2022

@fedops @mike I think this applies mostly just to *some* aspects. I'm not a programmer, so I haven't really had to deal with, like, any of those things, except the package manager stuff/app store which I do agree is much better on Linux.

I mostly use GUI apps, and I switched to Linux a couple of years ago for political reasons and it's honestly been kind of a painless and mostly frictionless swich. Ubuntu -> Arch was harder than Windows -> Linux for me tbh 😅

Show threadNiceMicroApr 12, 2022
@hazelnot @fedops @mike this is why I just moved from Windows directly to Arch Linux... It's like tearing off the band-aid at once!