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mczollyYay! More Linux users!
DigitalAudioUgh. I’ve never wanted to use Linux and can’t afford a Mac, but with this situation, Linux is all I have left. Which I do find annoying but I just can’t keep justifying using Windows.
Pick a popular distro and live boot it to play around. No commitment necessary and you might find that it’s fine for your needs (YMMV of course).
I use Fedora professionally and Ubuntu at home, they are both far more respectful of your time and ownership than windows had been for years.
Microsoft isn’t going to move any way other than in a user-/owner-hostile direction any time soon.
Whatever live Linux distro you test, make sure to start with one that has a desktop environment called “Xfce”, “Cinnamon”, and/or “KDE”.
Other desktop environments (the user interface) like “GNOME” are kind of like Windows 8, which some Windows users dislike.
The problem is that I’ve been coding on Windows (and occasionally) Mac for the good part of 8 years and I’ve just become used to the bullshit here. I really hate the idea of having to get used to a completely new brand of bullshit. And I don’t mean corporate bullshit but rather OS jank.
But yeah, thanks for the suggestions. I think I’ll start figuring out some way to migrate all of my stuff. And the C++ legacy libraries and other more complex things.
Nah, most people are basically NPCs lacking critical thinking and just do and consume whatever their corpo overlords want them to do lol. I mean just look at the amount of people who continue to have dozens of streaming subscriptions although those get worse and expensive by the year. Same with people who every year purchase the new iPhone for 2k dollars or whatever and then only use it for WhatsApp and Instagram and stuff lol.