I get it. Problems in Linux feel like they're mine. I prefer it.

Thats my exact thing on Linux. It has "issues" but theyre fricken fixable. And they won't happen again, likely. With windows its way harder to fix anything if it won't work beyond the "close and reopen again" technique and then if you do fix it a damn update breaks it again!!! Plus the bloat and spyware, ick.

Yeah. When I can't do something on Linux, or something breaks, I may have to figure out how to fix it, but most of the time it's less painful to fix than just trying to do basic stuff on windows and getting paywalled/adspammed/stuck in some kind of error hell you can't fix even if you know what's wrong.

My windows dual boot rig gets progressively less use on the W11 boot over the last year. I may move it to an even smaller SSD... It only exists to run a few programs.

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100% relatable. There is a huge difference between, "It broke and I can fix it or that's annoying but not worth me spending time to learn how to change it (but I could if I was really really bothered by it)" and "It broke again and Windows forced another update and it's broke and now I have to fix it or that's annoying and it bothers the shit out of me and and there is nothing I can do to change it."

Things just feel way better, even when it's all going wrong, when the problems are within your control. I left Windows a long as time ago because of this very thing.

Got to know a 66yo woman recently. She is not great with tech but curious and wants to try things.

So, she got herself a new laptop for work. Old one was "old" and couldn't do things. Someone gave her a tip to install Linux on it. She did. She claims Linux Mint made her laptop work again.

Today I gave her access to my Jellyfin instance. She couldn't run a movie off her windows laptop but Linux one worked straight away. Same Browser and all. Weird, right?

I have windows installed for some work-related stuff still, but I can't use it because windows decided it doesn't want to connect by wifi and I'm not gonna buy more hardware to just maybe get windows to be functional. Linux just works with it without having to mess with drivers, install software, etc. Also my work laptop won't connect to my bluetooth headset anymore after an update, so I have to connect it to my phone and then use AudioRelay to have wireless audio on my laptop. If just one

Meanwhile linux problems are mostly just companies not wanting to support linux, so finding workaround to get their software to run or finding alternative software that works. The core functionality just seems so much more reliable, so I'm not constantly just trying to find ways to deal with all of the new problems that come out of nowhere.

How has nobody developed a distro called Blinds or Curtains yet?

This is the way

I'm a mint guy myself. Never disappoints

Same, Windows 7 was the last one I used too, but I was already dual-booting with Linux before then. Once Microslop rolled out the Windows 8/10/11 idiot parade, I jumped to Linux entirely.

You can say "skill issue" anyway, even if the skill is flashing an image to a USB stick

If it wasn't for work, if never log into windows. At home, pure Linux.

I sometimes have to, but it kind of makes me feel I have to wash my hands afterwards.

That's the thing. The whole Windows ecosytem is a massive Pluto's Cave.

I moved from Proxmox on my trio of home servers to NixOS a year ago and loved it so much i switched my 2019 intel MacBook as well a few weeks ago. Headless on the servers and Hyprland/Quickshell on the laptop. It's just so fucking good

nixos is one I hear people talking about positively but don't know much on. What's so great about it? And is it a niche distro for certain users (the subset who like to tinker with their machines?) or is it good for general use?

That's my holdout too! But then Windows forcibly removed support for WMR to paperweight those anyway, so...

What headset do you use? They just ported the Oasis driver to Linux for WMR devices (I have a Sumsung Odyssey+) and I can't wait to try that!

There's also the "Envision" project that streamlines getting all the drivers and builds and stuff going for various headset software on Linux. Some have better results than others. :)

Some really good guides here, and there's also a (hrk 🤢) Discord called "Linux Vr Adventures"

https://vronlinux.org/

I've been pretty happy with being downstream of Debian stable. I've only been burned by outdated packages a couple of times, which hasn't been that bad. I'm much more of a "set and forget" type of user.

Same here. I sometimes have issues with updating even Fedora. Point of fact, just yesterday I logged in and noticed Firefox acting like a slideshow when scrolling. Videos would also lag (I could tell it was lagging because I was watching a video about recompilation projects and the onscreen game was Dusklight running at 60 yet my screen was lagging) and games even would too.

I got frustrated and updated everything again through Discover and it was back to normal.

I do NOT like to update my Linux or Windows computers because I have shit luck and there is always something going wrong on either. :'-]

I also have one game that behaves weirdly until I either tab back and forth, or (more consistently) move it to another workspace and back with super+shift+up.

It seems like a windows manager/focus issue.