• saltesc@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        Even 4s would be fine

        install finishes

        “That was it?.. Heh. Of course it was. This is Linux, afterall. Not some grotesque accumulation of defects for those base creatures.”

      • galaxy_nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah honestly even if you try it and give it a fair chance but still decide to go back that’s fine with me.

        • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          In that case the user has made a choice is the good thing. They’ve seen what options are there and decided Windows fits their needs best. That’s better in my mind than a world where everyone accepts the OS that comes preinstalled on their machine as permanent and doesn’t consider alternatives.

      • hubobes@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        One day I will figure out what other Arch users do and why my installation had not a single issue in the 3 years it has been running so far.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        The progress in the last 2 years has been nothing short of amazing.

        The KDE team, Wine, Proton, TKG/GE/etc have worked miracles for the Linux community.

        Also, shout out to Microsoft for spectacularly face planting in their move to Windows 11/CoPilot/Vibe coded OS development. Nobody deserves more credit for Linux’s growth than Microsoft’s complete failure to innovate as an operating system developer.

      • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Ikr? An indie game just came out last week, and I’m able to use my PS5 controller with all the really cool haptic feedback with no configuration on my end.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    4 days?

    Took me 4 seconds to realize I can actually use the super key and have my start menu pop up instantly and not watch it struggle to load 50 ads and tell me to download candy crush

    • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I have a couple of Linux machines, but I also use a MacBook. It’s been a year now, and every time I use the Mac it kinda pisses me off that I have to hit Cmd+Space to bring up a search. It feels like a massive step backwards.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Kinda.

    Was more like looking as an escapee at my fellow slaves from outside the fence, urging them to come escape too.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    1·
    1 month ago

    Well I know I’m superior because I don’t use the OS that funds a pedo’s STD collection via stock value.

  • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 month ago

    The first few days is where you realize “holy shit, there is another world I’ve been ignoring and it’s so much more fun.”

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 month ago

      I’m always somewhat confused by this, I haven’t tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I’d say it was “fun” in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it’s job efficiently without problems, shouldn’t it be sort of… Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it’s sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn’t bad I won’t really be aware of it.

      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 month ago

        Like how can it be fun?

        So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.

        When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.

        The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10¢ candy store. “I can just have as much of this as I want.”

      • yata@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 month ago

        Well, invisible is how linux (mostly) is now, as opposed to windows which has become very visible and pushing and annoying by design. It is very refreshing to have an os which works and doesn’t constantly annoy you with unwanted things.

        You should try it again, I am pretty sure your experience will be very different from 2009, because a lot has happened to linux since then.