What did you switch to and why is it not Hannah Montana Linux?

The biggest reason to switch to Linux is because it's boring. The biggest reason not to switch to Linux is because it's boring.

Pretty cool that your life was unchanged though. Seems crazy, but that's been the dream.

What distro have you chosen?

I did this just over a year ago. I expected it not to change much. It was surprisingly simple. The only thing that changed is I am no longer annoyed with windows, and am actually enjoying my OS. Makes my hardware seem much faster too.

Congrats, and welcome!

Great news! Very happy for you. The hardest part of my switch was settling on a distro, and then setting up a dual boot with windows because I was told that I'd have programs or hardware or banking apps that wouldn't work. But honestly, everything worked, and I never once booted back into windows. Even my Starbucks drinking uggs wearing wife asked me to switch her computers to linux and she hasn't looked back either.

Good job!!

For me it was actually life changing and made me love computing again like when I was a kid. But I'm glad it was smooth and boring for you haha. It stresses me out sometimes but its all my own doing. My friends think my computing setup is bonkers lol

Isn't it weird when you finally get around to something you've been meaning to do and you finally do it and it's like "oh wow! Okay... uh... now what? I guess I... go to the same sites as before. In the same browser as before. But here now..."

sudo welcome

Welcome to the team!

I decided to try it on a spare netbook 16 years ago and Linux swallowed me whole... it still is a fun ride

And radically changed, according to big tech. Great work, and welcome

You can't say that without telling us your distro so we can tell you that you should try our favorite one as well.

Congratulations! And don't worry, I'm sure it will get spicy within a year or so.

I'm in the same boat. Just got a Framework 13 pro and installed both windows and Linux. Currently in Windows for client use. Looking forward to getting more familiar with Ubuntu again. I used to run Linux on a USB stick to get around limitations on my work laptop.

Nice! Yeah that initial "Let me just do it" is such a big thing to overcome when you're all up and working.

Welcome to the Dark Side^tm^!

Oh, your life is changed, you'll see.

yeah when I did it I kinda looked back and wished I had done it a few years sooner.

Welcome to the penguin side.

I read through the comments, and didn't see what DE you chose, so I'm just wondering which DE you chose?

Sweet. I've been dual booting with Windows for about 6 months. In that time I've only booted Windows around 4 times. It's not nearly as big of a deal as I thought it would be.

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1. certain peripherals will give you problems. Researching before buying will address that. (E.g., still haven't gotten my switch controller to work wirelessly, but other controllers work fine)
2. some software has same issue

What hardware did you go with?

Welcome :)

Welcome to the club. Btw, if you switched today, you haven’t switched yet. You switched when you’ve been daily driving it for a few months and haven’t rage quit.