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About two weeks ago, I posted my frustrations with Linux, and how it seemed unstable and breaks too easily. At the time, that had been my experience every time I tried Linux over the last 20 years.

But I made an effort to persist, tried some other distros, and found my happy place!

Thank you to the people who sent me on the path of "atomic" distros, and mentioning the likes of Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora (All from the Universal Blue group).

The last two weeks have been pure Linux joy on my daily-driver (Framework laptop), with only a few problem-solving expeditions.

I was looking for stability, and got it!

As a Windows user since the 90s, it's such a breath of fresh air to use an OS that's clean and designed to serve me (and not the corporation in charge!).

And I've also replaced windows on the minipc hooked up to our family room TV, and will also replace Windows that I've got on a lesser used desktop.

It's exciting to see just how far Linux has come, and even though I'll likely need to learn some terminal commands, I don't feel it's necessary for most people to even get into that.

The GUI in both KDE and Gnome already offer more than Windows. And I'll never have to see those goddamn pop-ups and banners about Office 365, OneDrive, or Xbox, at least not outside a VM!)

Freeeeeedom!

Thanks again!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Are you going to talk down to me because I'm not using Arch? LOL 😆

At my age, I just want something that works. Long gone are the days when I enjoyed staying up through the night to fix shit on my computer. 🤭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I remember waking up my wife in the middle of the night when I got a spotify tui app working, and accidentally blasting a song lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Naw, I'm a lowly Debian user. I 100% understand the not wanting to tinker with shit all night though lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Also, it's 1am and I'm in the middle of fiddling with a self-hosted docker image of Immich on my Synology NAS... so much for living by my own rules 😂